Rearrangement (Continued)

When I'm in a strenuous breezing schedule as last summer and into the Woodlands meet with my Groovin' Wind, were there were 45 breezes over a period of 4 months, subsequent to each breeze there is concern as to the condition of the cannon bone in terms of microfracture, and whether these would heal for the next breeze two days hence. When you're going all out every third day in multiple heats as was Wind, the reader will have to trust me that the degree of concern here weighs rather heavily, particularly when the evaluator of this process is also the rider of the horse.

However, as I'm thinking about this process of tearing down and rebuilding of bone, or post-breeze microfracture repair, I'm considering that my fears may have simply been wrong and misplaced. In fact, as I'm considering all this now, in conditioned bone, post-race microfracture may be a misplaced concern.

Why? It has to do with the idea of "reararrangement" of bone substance at the molecular level in response to application of force. Instead of microscopic tears and gaps being left by the 12,000 lbs./sq. inch of momentary pressure, I'm more thinking now that the fluid/solid bone materials shown in the electron microscopic images above merely rearranges itself like waves in the ocean and while each molecule post breeze might be in a slightly different position vis a vis it's neighbors, the material composed of these molecules remains substantially the same, i.e. without microscopic fractures.

The above is a bit of a simplicfication, and I'll try to nail it down next post.

Training:
In KC we continue to get hammered by weather. It's slowing down the race prep. BUT, as soon as the trailer floor repair is complete, we're off to the track. I'd say race training has begun for Art, though Rod is still in the pre-training phase.
Sat. 7/12: rained out by 1 inches of rain.
Sun: 7/13 Art does riderless speed work in the muddy paddock. This horse has the look. Hope I'm seeing things right. Probably was about 5 x 3f as fast as conditions allowed, then 10 min. walk under tack. Rod got the day off as he seems to be in a growth spurt.