Miscellaneous Stuff
Coincidentally with the start of the Woodland's meet RR has now suffered nine out of the last ten days as suit days in the office. Things have been busy and a bit frustrating as I'm distracted by business from the race meeting. Fortunately things settle down in the office in October and starting tomorrow hopefully I can spend some serious time at the track.
Wind came out of the Monday breeze in good order. He rested Tuesday, galloped riderless with the other horses on Wednesday--2 miles in :17s and then a 2f spurt at about 90% speed. Today, Thursday Wind galloped at the farm under tack 1.6 miles in :17s. Wind was scheduled to breeze today, but Thursday is the dark day at the track, and the farm conditions this morning were "wet grass" which makes taking tight corners at speed a little problematic with the risk the horse could lose his hind end and fall.
Thus, we plan to breeze tomorrow after the break another 4.5f. In consultation with my rider Mr. Nob we've decided that this distance maybe is about as far as we should carry things under 163 lbs. Burch training was carried on with other than 152 lbs riders, and so we do have a fear of pushing the envelope a little too far with the weight the horse is carrying. However, we should tomorrow have a nice surface, be without excuses, and see whether the horse is going in :55s or :50. I expect a decent performance.
A lot of trainers at this point would just throw the horse in a race. Wind has, after all, been breezing regularly since early June, and already has three decent breezes (faster than the slow times indicate) at the track. Our evaluation is that the horse is physically ready to run, but that Wind is still adjusting to being at the big track mentally. He's refusing change of leads into the clubhouse turn, he's refusing trips to the gate, and generally acting in terms of behavior like a firecracker about to go off. The horse needs to be more disciplined and relaxed to handle the pressure of a race day, and hopefully we'll get this in the next few appearances at the track.
We are full bore tomorrow to find a jock and pony rider. By a week from Saturday we should be good to go, but we'll be looking for a non-winners for the year race hopefully at a distance the horse can handle.
The little fellow Art has spent the last two days galloping riderless with the others. Wednesday was an easy two miles, and today was very fast in 2f heats at about 5 x 2f. Looked very good. He toys with the older horses and has considerably more foot speed then they do. Growth hormone on the way from Iherb, folks. We'll be spraying it under his tongue for the next two months.
Wind came out of the Monday breeze in good order. He rested Tuesday, galloped riderless with the other horses on Wednesday--2 miles in :17s and then a 2f spurt at about 90% speed. Today, Thursday Wind galloped at the farm under tack 1.6 miles in :17s. Wind was scheduled to breeze today, but Thursday is the dark day at the track, and the farm conditions this morning were "wet grass" which makes taking tight corners at speed a little problematic with the risk the horse could lose his hind end and fall.
Thus, we plan to breeze tomorrow after the break another 4.5f. In consultation with my rider Mr. Nob we've decided that this distance maybe is about as far as we should carry things under 163 lbs. Burch training was carried on with other than 152 lbs riders, and so we do have a fear of pushing the envelope a little too far with the weight the horse is carrying. However, we should tomorrow have a nice surface, be without excuses, and see whether the horse is going in :55s or :50. I expect a decent performance.
A lot of trainers at this point would just throw the horse in a race. Wind has, after all, been breezing regularly since early June, and already has three decent breezes (faster than the slow times indicate) at the track. Our evaluation is that the horse is physically ready to run, but that Wind is still adjusting to being at the big track mentally. He's refusing change of leads into the clubhouse turn, he's refusing trips to the gate, and generally acting in terms of behavior like a firecracker about to go off. The horse needs to be more disciplined and relaxed to handle the pressure of a race day, and hopefully we'll get this in the next few appearances at the track.
We are full bore tomorrow to find a jock and pony rider. By a week from Saturday we should be good to go, but we'll be looking for a non-winners for the year race hopefully at a distance the horse can handle.
The little fellow Art has spent the last two days galloping riderless with the others. Wednesday was an easy two miles, and today was very fast in 2f heats at about 5 x 2f. Looked very good. He toys with the older horses and has considerably more foot speed then they do. Growth hormone on the way from Iherb, folks. We'll be spraying it under his tongue for the next two months.
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