Appropriate Response (continued)
Looks like it's happening from what I'm reading today. One can imagine the phone call from Dell Hancock to Dinny Phipps, "Dinny we've got to do something." Has Eight Belles achieved what Barbaro, Pine Island, and George Washington were unable, and gotten their attention?
Recapturetheglory trotted a mile and galloped a mile this morning. Big Brown trotted only a mile. Why the difference? Do either Roussell or Dutrow have the resources from the NTRA or the Jockey Club or from anywhere to determine what they need to do to avoid another disaster in the Preakness? The sport seems to be working on this at the same time we're looking at a 46 million dollar first quarter loss by Magna. My word.
I'm trying to put together the next post, and thanks for the nice comments. Thought I'd post today the training of "Bold" for the Preakness by Preston Burch. Then "Assault" by Max Hirsch. You may contrast it with today's training and wonder why they were sounder "back then":
BOLD in 1951:
to May 1: Bold had 31 breezes (no races) to May 1 though he was off with bruised feet from 2/19 to 3/19.
May
1: 1 mile in 1:40 2/5 at Belmont (1:55 4/5 for 9f).
4: 5f in :59 (6f in 1:12).
8: 3f in :35 (4f in 47.3)
9: First start of year, 1 1/16 mile allowance, won by 12 lengths.
13: 3f in :35 (4f in :48.2)
14: Preakness Prep Purse, 1 1/16 mile, beaten by a neck.
15: shoes pulled due to sore feet.
18: 5f 1:02
19: Won Preakness.
After the Preakness Bold ran a prep race for the Belmont and found to be suffering from a sore shin and splint (did they do a little too much). Was turned out and killed by lightening while in a paddock at the farm--so writes Preston Burch.
ASSAULT in 1946:
May 1: Assault breezed/raced 39 times for the year to May 1.
April 30: finished 4th in the Derby Trial Stakes
May 3: 4f in :48
4: Won Kentucky Derby
8: 3f in :40.
9: 8f in 1:45
11: Won Preakness
In the one week to the Preakness Assault breezed twice. He breezed 9 more times between Preakness and Belmont on June 1.
Training:
Wed. 5/7 Easy 10 min riderless with both colts, though there were a few short play sprints involved. With the 3 year old we're trying to maintain fitness in the transition to galloping under tack. 10 min tack work in the pasture with Art. The gentle Art is a handful in the saddle. Needing to be careful. Nob reports yesterday was a baby step backward.
Recapturetheglory trotted a mile and galloped a mile this morning. Big Brown trotted only a mile. Why the difference? Do either Roussell or Dutrow have the resources from the NTRA or the Jockey Club or from anywhere to determine what they need to do to avoid another disaster in the Preakness? The sport seems to be working on this at the same time we're looking at a 46 million dollar first quarter loss by Magna. My word.
I'm trying to put together the next post, and thanks for the nice comments. Thought I'd post today the training of "Bold" for the Preakness by Preston Burch. Then "Assault" by Max Hirsch. You may contrast it with today's training and wonder why they were sounder "back then":
BOLD in 1951:
to May 1: Bold had 31 breezes (no races) to May 1 though he was off with bruised feet from 2/19 to 3/19.
May
1: 1 mile in 1:40 2/5 at Belmont (1:55 4/5 for 9f).
4: 5f in :59 (6f in 1:12).
8: 3f in :35 (4f in 47.3)
9: First start of year, 1 1/16 mile allowance, won by 12 lengths.
13: 3f in :35 (4f in :48.2)
14: Preakness Prep Purse, 1 1/16 mile, beaten by a neck.
15: shoes pulled due to sore feet.
18: 5f 1:02
19: Won Preakness.
After the Preakness Bold ran a prep race for the Belmont and found to be suffering from a sore shin and splint (did they do a little too much). Was turned out and killed by lightening while in a paddock at the farm--so writes Preston Burch.
ASSAULT in 1946:
May 1: Assault breezed/raced 39 times for the year to May 1.
April 30: finished 4th in the Derby Trial Stakes
May 3: 4f in :48
4: Won Kentucky Derby
8: 3f in :40.
9: 8f in 1:45
11: Won Preakness
In the one week to the Preakness Assault breezed twice. He breezed 9 more times between Preakness and Belmont on June 1.
Training:
Wed. 5/7 Easy 10 min riderless with both colts, though there were a few short play sprints involved. With the 3 year old we're trying to maintain fitness in the transition to galloping under tack. 10 min tack work in the pasture with Art. The gentle Art is a handful in the saddle. Needing to be careful. Nob reports yesterday was a baby step backward.
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Dutrow training quotes from 2 recent articles:
"I’m not gonna bear down on him,” he said. “He had a big race here, and I won’t have to put a sharpening in him. He doesn’t have to be hammered in the mornings. I always walk my horses three days after they run, then I jog them the next day and then I go on to gallop them for 11 days and then I like breezing them. I’m not going to change much in my theories and ways of thinking; we’re just going to take one day at a time. We’re under no pressure, but it will be a very light training schedule.”
“I hope there is no one over there that is going to run big,” Dutrow said. “I felt that half of them didn’t belong in the Derby anyway. We only have two weeks. There is nothing I can do. I just have to hope that he stays good. There is no serious training involved. There is not a whole lot that depends on me. He has come out of the race good, eaten every oat since he has run. I just have to decide if I am going to give him a little breeze or not before his next race.
Also an interesting note about training and breakdowns and speed: Bramlage made a comment on a radio show recently where he mentions that Rick Arthur at one time went back and looked at the work tab at Santa Anita and compared the same days 50 years apart. Almost all the works recorded would not even qualify as official works by todays standards (too slow). This was in support of the argument that one of the main issues in training is that the horses are just faster now and everything gets riskier the faster you go. "Slow horses don't get hurt"
KH
This is typical of the 'weekend warrior' syndrome in humans.
Guys get older, sit at a desk all week long, then play football, basketball, etc. on the weekend.
Sprains, strains, tears, breaks then appear being as how the week (training) is not specific to the weekend (racing).
Exercise physiology is a science, not an art. Blood, muscle, ligaments, lungs, are the same in horses, humans, dogs, rats, etc.
Speedwork has to be done every 72 hours or so in order to effect an adaptive response in terms of performance improvement and injury prevention.
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