Weather

"O! Let me not be mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!"

Written by the gentleman at left as RR tries to keep his composure over the latest weather developments.

It's been a while, November 23rd to be exact since dry ground has shown its face at my farm. And, yes, that would be correct, 57 days of either deep mud, frozen mud, caked ice, snow or some various combo without a single day of dry ground. And, to rub a little more salt in the wounds, we have every three or four day precipitation events right on through the end of the month.

Just to sum it up neatly, yes, we've been unable to accomplish any serious race training around here since November 22, though we continue to do riderless work in the large Astride paddock where we have snow over thick grass and frozen ground.

What are the state of things here. Number one if the weather pattern continues as it has for 4 years now (last year only 7 of the 12 months were trainable), you simply are unable to train race horses around here off the farm. And to that end, as soon as I get these two youngsters galloping under control, we're off to a track, unknown where or when but, then it will begin.

On the bright side of things, both youngsters are showing some stuff, and in particular the Vision and Verse Colt named Art has grown into a formidable looking package. To have trainable horses is every trainer's dream, and we've got a couple and hope to be able to report real training, knocking on wood, very soon.