Saturday Review

Any notion of mine that we could take a couple of young horses to Prairie Meadows and cherry pick by superior training pretty much evaporates as I see what's happening across the way from the ship in barn. Here's another snapshot from yesterday of this outfit. With the delay in the camera I never can get the shot of moving horses that I want. But, if you left click you'll see the nice horse on the walker, and this is a shedrow full off those fit looking, superbly conformed animals. The rider is about the size of Nob without the light equipment, and he's busy. Note the trainer in the orange shirt. He'll take that bike and go watch 'em gallop.
Running against this sort of outfit, a lot of people will be looking at second place.

Of course, it's a challenge, a high hill to climb to race against money, and, it gets steeper yet when you go against trainers that know what they're doing.

What can you do? For us right now things boil down to just keeping going. Luckily, my motivations for being in the game are purely athletic. I enjoy conditioning athletes, watching them develop, and hopefully enjoy a little success. To this end I took some snap shots of Wind this morning after yesterday's breeze. He's shown below. You see we spend little time on manes and tails, but this shows a bit of forward movement in muscular development since the last prior photos.
Where is this horse at physically? Probably needs another month. He's getting there, but has a ways to go. Here you see a horse who has breezed hard four times in the last two weeks, and probably 8 or 9 times in the last four weeks.
Yesterday's breeze, where Wind "hung in the stretch" happens when horses need a little more work. Unless there was bleeding involved (and, this may have been the case with this horse), next two breezes will show much improvement in stamina and air up take in the last couple of furlongs. I'll look forward to seeing how it comes out. Today's training yet to come. Wind is off today in the pasture with his buddies.