The General Scheme...Of This Blog
Organizing this blog and staying on point has been difficult, but...
I did start the blog with some things in mind, and still want to finish what I started whatever distractions may catch my eye along the way. It'll be a while before the next serious RR race prep, or next year's TC, or purchase of our 2008 yearling, or the latest RR book review and so on, and so, like last year at this time, I hope to make up some ground with the aim to finally get to how we can produce that KY DERBY PROSPECT.
A brief synopsis of the RR thought process on the blog:
How do we compete with the Sheiks and their wealthy peers to get to the Derby?
Preston Burch training--anybody doing it (besides us?)
Why Burch?
Burch or the like is the only training method that will allow us to compete with money.
Why? Conventional training injures horses and is strictly non-competitive for US in that our horses are unable to train identically to the expensive horses and beat them. We have to figure out a better way.
What is conventional training, and what are the methods of the conventional trainers?
What are the records of the conventional training with regards injury prevention.
Exactly how does conventional training injure horses.
I'm currently on this last subject already having covered injury causing factors in track surfaces, shoeing, warm ups. I'm about to launch a series of posts that will precisely identify how the conventional trainers go about producing their frightfully quick and nearly 100% career ending injury rate.
When I finish them, I will have made my case against conventional training, and then it'll be on to what we intend, which is the fun stuff--the training of Burch, Tommy Smith, Bill O'Gorman, and Whittingham and hopefully how we may even improve on those great trainers using all the tools today that we have at our disposal.
Training:
Art: 36 degrees at 1 p.m. and raining. 75 degrees yesterday. It'll be fun out there. Shades of last year, EXCEPT, lovely forecast for November coming in a few days.
Y: same deal--day 2 of the breaking process.
I did start the blog with some things in mind, and still want to finish what I started whatever distractions may catch my eye along the way. It'll be a while before the next serious RR race prep, or next year's TC, or purchase of our 2008 yearling, or the latest RR book review and so on, and so, like last year at this time, I hope to make up some ground with the aim to finally get to how we can produce that KY DERBY PROSPECT.
A brief synopsis of the RR thought process on the blog:
How do we compete with the Sheiks and their wealthy peers to get to the Derby?
Preston Burch training--anybody doing it (besides us?)
Why Burch?
Burch or the like is the only training method that will allow us to compete with money.
Why? Conventional training injures horses and is strictly non-competitive for US in that our horses are unable to train identically to the expensive horses and beat them. We have to figure out a better way.
What is conventional training, and what are the methods of the conventional trainers?
What are the records of the conventional training with regards injury prevention.
Exactly how does conventional training injure horses.
I'm currently on this last subject already having covered injury causing factors in track surfaces, shoeing, warm ups. I'm about to launch a series of posts that will precisely identify how the conventional trainers go about producing their frightfully quick and nearly 100% career ending injury rate.
When I finish them, I will have made my case against conventional training, and then it'll be on to what we intend, which is the fun stuff--the training of Burch, Tommy Smith, Bill O'Gorman, and Whittingham and hopefully how we may even improve on those great trainers using all the tools today that we have at our disposal.
Training:
Art: 36 degrees at 1 p.m. and raining. 75 degrees yesterday. It'll be fun out there. Shades of last year, EXCEPT, lovely forecast for November coming in a few days.
Y: same deal--day 2 of the breaking process.
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