No Fear

Back of Mike Smith's helmet (as seen in "On The Muscle") at left. I never knew old apparent roughneck fifty eight year old exercise rider Ignacio Ramirez at Golden Gate killed the other day when his horse flipped. As part of the brotherhood, when they go down it catches my attention. RIP. My two year old panicked just last night while I was on him. Lasted but a second, luckily, but I felt the electricity go through him. It's an extreme sport.

Working on a Doug O'Neill interview. Hypothical, of course. Hope to pull this off this week sometime. Meanwhile:

Training:
Fri. 11/14 off.
Sat. 11/15 Run 'em riderless in rain and deep mud. They're into it for about 10 min. quick.
Sun: 11/16 Riderless again. Still way too muddy for productive tack work. Another 10 min quick as they could go, off and on.
Mon. 11/17: Art gets injured jumping a fence. Minor but he's off tonight. Rod: Riderless 1/2 mile WU + 2 miles varying between :17s to :15s in the mud + 1 mile walk trot under tack.