The Conditioned Bone Cell Post Breeze

Here it is.

McCain: "We're offering a job that will take most of your time and attention. Can you handle that?"

Palin: "Well, let's see. I have 5 children, age 18 and under including a disabled newborn. Yes, I'll be proud to take the job and promise to devote all my time and attention.

They took the wind right out of Mr. Obama's sails, but might be interesting, how they'll handle the aforementioned problem of priorities, and, never mind that I personally have trouble with Veep candidates who probably can spell "potato" but enjoy killing fish. It's Alaska, I'm thinking.

But, on to horses and microscopic movement in bone cells. I was doing a run yesterday down by the Missouri River watching the whirling surface circulation and noting that the river constantly changes it's distribution but remains exactly the same river. This brought home to me again the concept of "rearrangement" of materials where liquids or hybrid liquid-solids such as bone glue proteins respond to application of force by moving or circulating somewhat but after the movement we have exactly the same material we had before. In the case of bone glue there probably also is the contraction and expansion of sacrificial bonds in response to stress.

The point is that though bone material subject to the intense pressure of a breezing horse probably undergoes fairly significant changes over the course of 240 blows in terms of total movement of material at the microscopic level, I'm thinking what you end up with, like the Mighty Mo River, is mostly precisely what you started out with, and in terms of practical effect we are without significant change in the bone cell material post breeze.

This is all totally speculation on my part as I try to rationalize what's happening particularly as to what might cause us concern. Next post will discuss in terms of all this whether there is any breakdown of material that we need to consider.

Training:
Wed. 8/27: Art did 1 mile trot gallop under tack. Rod trotted 1/2 mile under tack.
Thurs. 8/28: Art galloped 1.25 mile under tack with occastional trot due to lead change problems. Mr. Nob gets the horse to switch right to left sometimes, but never (yet) left to right. Luckily we can control which lead the horse takes off on from the trot, but at the gallop the common sight at lead change time is the horse veering off course with Nob swaying in the breeze, lol. Rod trotted 1/3 mile then aborted as the horse had something caught in his throat. Both horses then did 10 min. of intermittent riderless fast work at about 80% speed with some short full speed bursts. Rod starting to show some real speed as he matures.
Fri. 8/29: Off