Warm Up: What They Do, And Why?
By simple observation any serious human athlete can recognize the insufficiency of conventional pre-race (and pre-breeze) warm ups conducted at our racetracks--a couple minutes cantering added to a little-walk-trot-milling around, and our animal would be ready for it's all out extended sprint from the gate.
I've mulled this over the years before I ever owned a horse in my old days at Ak-Sar-Ben, and then through countless exercises as owner, trainer, and rider. Hopefully I've been able to communicate my views on the blog. RR is quite as certain as he can be that the conventional warm up is insufficient, dangerous to horse and rider, and patently absurd.
Yet, as in all things where one faces almost universal disapproval, there is that nagging doubt fostered by the hard fact that the rest of the world does it differently. Who are the idiots here, ourselves who would like to actually conduct a couple of pre-race sprints, or everybody else who, but for the occasional misfit, seem unable to see the advantage to their horse of appropriate warm up?
It's a big question really and one that also pertains to training generally. I'll delve into why they do what they do in warming up in the next posts.
Training:
Here is the schedule for Groovin' Wind in the preceding two weeks.
8/26 4 x 2.6f farm breeze at :12.7s.
8/27 Off
8/28 1.5 miles in :17s.
8/29 1:51 mile farm breeze.
8/30 Off
8/31 1 1/4 mile in :17s.
9/1 1:45 mile at Eureka.
9/2 Off.
9/3 Riderless 2 miles in :14 (training error--too much after Saturday's breeze--some shin heat afterward.)
9/4 Off. mild colic.
9/5 off
9/6 1 5/8 mile in :19s--slow.
9/7 1 1/2 mile in :17s.
9/8 Planned acceleration with breeze next day--1 mile in :16s with :24 2f acceleration.
9/9 Breeze cancelled. Horse showing mild shin heat. Galloped instead 1.5 miles in :17s.
9/10 morning--shin heat almost gone. will get the day off.
Wind, unlike Assault in Preston Burch's book, yet to be ready for back to back accelerations. This last week was a set back. We'll see how it goes. Woodlands opens soon.
Art: Has been doing two miles riderless daily fast and through the mud from a 1.35 inch rain Friday. Looking good!
I've mulled this over the years before I ever owned a horse in my old days at Ak-Sar-Ben, and then through countless exercises as owner, trainer, and rider. Hopefully I've been able to communicate my views on the blog. RR is quite as certain as he can be that the conventional warm up is insufficient, dangerous to horse and rider, and patently absurd.
Yet, as in all things where one faces almost universal disapproval, there is that nagging doubt fostered by the hard fact that the rest of the world does it differently. Who are the idiots here, ourselves who would like to actually conduct a couple of pre-race sprints, or everybody else who, but for the occasional misfit, seem unable to see the advantage to their horse of appropriate warm up?
It's a big question really and one that also pertains to training generally. I'll delve into why they do what they do in warming up in the next posts.
Training:
Here is the schedule for Groovin' Wind in the preceding two weeks.
8/26 4 x 2.6f farm breeze at :12.7s.
8/27 Off
8/28 1.5 miles in :17s.
8/29 1:51 mile farm breeze.
8/30 Off
8/31 1 1/4 mile in :17s.
9/1 1:45 mile at Eureka.
9/2 Off.
9/3 Riderless 2 miles in :14 (training error--too much after Saturday's breeze--some shin heat afterward.)
9/4 Off. mild colic.
9/5 off
9/6 1 5/8 mile in :19s--slow.
9/7 1 1/2 mile in :17s.
9/8 Planned acceleration with breeze next day--1 mile in :16s with :24 2f acceleration.
9/9 Breeze cancelled. Horse showing mild shin heat. Galloped instead 1.5 miles in :17s.
9/10 morning--shin heat almost gone. will get the day off.
Wind, unlike Assault in Preston Burch's book, yet to be ready for back to back accelerations. This last week was a set back. We'll see how it goes. Woodlands opens soon.
Art: Has been doing two miles riderless daily fast and through the mud from a 1.35 inch rain Friday. Looking good!
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