Safe Minimums For Breezing Frequency

Consider the thought processes and gulf that exists between a trainer as Preston Burch and your local conventional, one breezing horses to the max and the other hardly ever breezing, much less galloping. Putting together a training regimen for your athletes provides but a specific example of general elevated logic and educated common sense, a perspective, can we agree, that's controversial. We have one trainer breezing/racing 10 times a month, another breezing 1-3 times a month. What is going on?

The blog has covered Burch extensively, but, what's in the mind of that trainer breezing 1-3 times a month? I've been in racing 20+ years. I'm still without an answer. Discussions with these sorts seem perpetually non-sensical, defensive, or alternatively based on "what works". The trainer down the shedrow is blaring the latest country hit three feet from his horse's ear drums and that horse won a race. Something is working, if you can follow that sort of thinking.

Nevertheless, identifying safe minimums for breezing and galloping will provide for us further benchmarks as to what we must and can do if we want to stay in racing. I consider this probably the most important discussion for this blog. I'm unable to think of anything more important that breezing/racing enough to provide sufficient fracture resistance/injury prevention to our animals over a long haul.

As such, I'd think this to be a lengthy detailed discussion. How do we look at this? What is the evidence, our conclusions and their ramifications will be forthcoming in the next posts. Anybody's thoughts on "minimum" breezing for safety would be welcome.

Training:
Mon. 10/6: Off. We begin, amid a rain shower, our next cycle this evening.