Books

Txs to Kaunard and KH for recent comments. KH informs that Bill O'Gorman's book now is available on line. For those training horses this is big news! O'Gorman's book, the only recent book written by a trainer, cost $75.00 which in my view might be the best $75 anybody training horses can spend. It's now free at billogorman.com, and serves as additional evidence of O'Gorman's motivation to write a book sharing knowledge from generations of horse people to include some of the most amazing two year olds ever.

It's only a small coincidence, imo, that O'Gorman trained similarly to T.J. Smith in Australia, Preston Burch and the old timers. It's all in the book including how O'Gorman works through the bucked shins of youngsters that he admittedly pressed for financial reasons. This is big news! Now free, on line!

There are several good books written about trainers and their training:

Ross Staaden's Winning Trainers--T.J. Smith and Wayne Lukas
Training Thoroughbred Horses -- Preston Burch
Jay Hoveday on Whittingham
Dirt Road To The Derby on Baffert
Guess I'm Lucky--Woody Stephens
Nafzger's book on Unbridled











Training:
Thurs and Fri: 4/17, 4/18: off due to weather. total mess here in KC but hopefully we can restart today.