Fracture Resistance And Frequency
A kinder, gentler RR will go forward with the blog hopefully learning from the posts on horse slaughter. Unknown what would make an impact or bring anti-slaughter to the few steps needed to get support of the horse owning/horse related community. It's something more than stating positions in opposition, obviously. I'll take the blame for that and reconsider my approach next time.
Now it's on to fracture resistance(hereafter "FR") in terms of breezing/racing frequency. I've already decided we need 4f breezes in 12.5s to get there, but how often? I broke off from this topic to look at Derby/TC training because it's instructive. More on that later.
It seems to me the first step in deciding how often we need to go fast is to decide what questions need to be asked. I have as I type yet to consider this in depth. This is such an important issue that I'd like to avoid going at this half cocked. This frequency issue imo is one of the most significant problems both in our track breakdowns and injuries in general. It's fairly safe to say from what I see that very few trainers breeze/race their horse a sufficient number of times to maintain FR even if they were able to get it in the first place. Horses are going down because they go fast too infrequently.
So, before the next post I want to give some serious thought on how this should be approached in terms of science. Since I've never outside of Tom Ivers seen or heard or read anything, probably there's very little now out there of help. But, will consider and hopefully post the major questions tomorrow.
Training:
Mon. 6/23 Some horses seem "marked" with continuing problems. My Aylward was that way early and so it's been with Art from day one. The latest--we put the tack on and see the hind shoe we've had to retack 3 times in the last ten days is lose again with gaps in the hoof wall for 4 of the 5 nails on one side. So, gallop cancelled and need some serious hoof work before tonight's session. Could be worse, but another work out lost. Rod looked anything but good in doing a riderless 4 x 1f at 90% speed. It was really 4 x 3f in terms of volume as they'd do 1f into the speed and 1f after with Rod looking every bit the very cheap horse. Zero stride, zero desire to do it. It's possible the horse is a bit sore either from feet stinging the hard or shins possibly. Or we may just have a project with Rod. Jury's out with this 2 yr. old in a growth phase. Rod did walk nicely under tack for 10 minutes in his 13th under tack session.
Now it's on to fracture resistance(hereafter "FR") in terms of breezing/racing frequency. I've already decided we need 4f breezes in 12.5s to get there, but how often? I broke off from this topic to look at Derby/TC training because it's instructive. More on that later.
It seems to me the first step in deciding how often we need to go fast is to decide what questions need to be asked. I have as I type yet to consider this in depth. This is such an important issue that I'd like to avoid going at this half cocked. This frequency issue imo is one of the most significant problems both in our track breakdowns and injuries in general. It's fairly safe to say from what I see that very few trainers breeze/race their horse a sufficient number of times to maintain FR even if they were able to get it in the first place. Horses are going down because they go fast too infrequently.
So, before the next post I want to give some serious thought on how this should be approached in terms of science. Since I've never outside of Tom Ivers seen or heard or read anything, probably there's very little now out there of help. But, will consider and hopefully post the major questions tomorrow.
Training:
Mon. 6/23 Some horses seem "marked" with continuing problems. My Aylward was that way early and so it's been with Art from day one. The latest--we put the tack on and see the hind shoe we've had to retack 3 times in the last ten days is lose again with gaps in the hoof wall for 4 of the 5 nails on one side. So, gallop cancelled and need some serious hoof work before tonight's session. Could be worse, but another work out lost. Rod looked anything but good in doing a riderless 4 x 1f at 90% speed. It was really 4 x 3f in terms of volume as they'd do 1f into the speed and 1f after with Rod looking every bit the very cheap horse. Zero stride, zero desire to do it. It's possible the horse is a bit sore either from feet stinging the hard or shins possibly. Or we may just have a project with Rod. Jury's out with this 2 yr. old in a growth phase. Rod did walk nicely under tack for 10 minutes in his 13th under tack session.
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2 Comments:
RR-
Using my heart rate/GPS monitoring tool - I routinely see horses with 'stronger' gallops 3-4 days out from a breeze, then those gallops weaken until the next breeze.
By 'stronger' I mean, faster speeds at equal levels of exertion/heart rate.
Horses are more agressive and race-ready when breezed twice weekly in my findings.
Hello again-
I believe the Nunamaker Shin Study and the resulting Fisher Protocol both espoused something like 2x weekly speed workouts for proper bone remodelling.
They also found that when the speed work was 5 days or more apart, bone remodelling was less than ideal.
The main finding from their work was that the progressive nature of the exercise led to progressive results in bone density.
Going from a 2 mile gallop at 18sec/furlong to a 1/4 breeze at 15sec/furlong is too big of a jump.
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