Sunday Morning At the Woodlands

This morning's photo efforts. Oh well!


Renee Torbit on Groovin' Wind after this morning's gallop. Jock instructed to do "fast" (as opposed to "slow") two minute clip with a final 1/8 in :12. Horse was back tracked to the 3.5f pole, turned around, and, instead of trotting back to the 2f as instructed, immediately commenced a hard left lead gallop from the 3 1/2 pole. The work commenced at the wire and Wind zipped along for the whole mile and did get the final furlong in :12 under urging. Ok, it was a :12 instead of :11, but, we'll take it. Unable to give a time for the mile as I forgot the stop watch.

Ms. Torbit was smiling as she trotted by me at the rail "that was better than Friday", and, indeed it was. A bit of a break through, perhaps. Horse and rider looked pretty good with Wind getting the rear legs under himself with much more forward propulsion than I saw Friday. Ms. Torbit said "he wanted to go today", an indicator of the horse adjusting to the lighter rider, and the rider beginning to figure out her horse.

Ten minutes after the above photos the skies opened up with rain, and for the third consecutive track breeze I dodge the rain. We've been as lucky with the weather as we were unlucky in April.

Due to rain I cancelled tomorrow's breeze, and hence the quick work today two days after Friday's breeze. Wind will be off tomorrow, gallop a slow mile Tuesday, then Wednesday will be the big one, 6f out of the gate hopefully in company. A 1:15 and we'll enter this weekend. Slower, then we'd have to consider what we're doing. A lot of work will come together for us Wednesday morning. The legs have been stone cold, and a high energy horse as expected with the human vitamin supps. from IHerb.

Art this morning breezed riderless with the oldsters 4 x 2f. For the oldsters it was all out; for Art probably 85-90% speed.