Training And Injuries: The Intro
The aim being to support the (hypothesis, theory) fact that conventional trainers and training injures horses, the first step is to dissect the training process and discover the precise manner in which we might cause an injury, depending on how we train.
There's as many ways to train horses as there are trainers. No one does it exactly alike, but, everyone deals with the same basic set of parameters. Teaching, instructing, educating, preparing horses for races involves practice exercise or gallops which can be carried out in various venues, usually the race track but could be the training track or farm or the ever popular "walker" or similar variations.
Once we settle on the venue we deal with the plaguey questions: how fast, how far and how often. Seems simple enough until we take note of the large number of variables that work over the course of the racing prep. What we may thus do with a particular horse in a particular moment involves (or should involve) a rather sophisticated thought process that would take note of all of the variables working that day.
That's training race horses in the abstract. The blog reader will take note of an important word I have introduced in this post. There will be a lot more about the word "variable" or "training variables" as I go on, and also, due to the fragility of the horse, the need to control all the variables in the training process.
Today's training: Last report was Tuesday when we trained at 75 degrees, and then Wednesday I arrived at the farm with this dusting of snow
on the neighbor's house and 30 degree temps and wind chills in the teens. Nob was AWOL in this weather. It was really cold! But, we were lucky in that the paddock surface was yet unfrozen and so Wednesday we accomplished very spirited (in the weather) riderless gallop with all the horses. The yearling was removed after appropriate exercise for him, and Art with the Oldsters did several more very snappy 2-4f gallops, probably about 6 times altogether. Was on the verge of doing too much. Nice conditioning work. Off Thursday in the very cold.
There's as many ways to train horses as there are trainers. No one does it exactly alike, but, everyone deals with the same basic set of parameters. Teaching, instructing, educating, preparing horses for races involves practice exercise or gallops which can be carried out in various venues, usually the race track but could be the training track or farm or the ever popular "walker" or similar variations.
Once we settle on the venue we deal with the plaguey questions: how fast, how far and how often. Seems simple enough until we take note of the large number of variables that work over the course of the racing prep. What we may thus do with a particular horse in a particular moment involves (or should involve) a rather sophisticated thought process that would take note of all of the variables working that day.
That's training race horses in the abstract. The blog reader will take note of an important word I have introduced in this post. There will be a lot more about the word "variable" or "training variables" as I go on, and also, due to the fragility of the horse, the need to control all the variables in the training process.
Today's training: Last report was Tuesday when we trained at 75 degrees, and then Wednesday I arrived at the farm with this dusting of snow
on the neighbor's house and 30 degree temps and wind chills in the teens. Nob was AWOL in this weather. It was really cold! But, we were lucky in that the paddock surface was yet unfrozen and so Wednesday we accomplished very spirited (in the weather) riderless gallop with all the horses. The yearling was removed after appropriate exercise for him, and Art with the Oldsters did several more very snappy 2-4f gallops, probably about 6 times altogether. Was on the verge of doing too much. Nice conditioning work. Off Thursday in the very cold.
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