Bongo/Rush Rush Running Commentary
I've now looked at all the Bongo horses. Results below.
Bongo has a very consistent approach with their horses. You could call it "cookie cutter" as there seems little variation from horse to horse.
Rush Rush is another horse who seems to have lasted the year though he came on board with a breeze in late April. Rush Rush shows a typical Bongo pattern, as follows:
4/25 :36.2
5/2 :48.8
5/9 1.00.8
5/16 1:00.8
5/26 1:14.8 Suddenly a 10 day wait. Was the jockey ill, did they forget about the horse, did the owner fail to pay his bills???
6/3 1:14.8 back on the 7 day schedule he repeats the last work.
6/10 1:26 12 seconds/f for 7f is a 1:24. Were this my horse I'd be enthusiastic with the performance even if they rushed the horse a bit for my taste. Will they breeze again in 7 days?
6/19 RACE ooops. they decide the horse is ready and wait 9 days to the entry. Can a horse stay tight for 9 days after a work? Another head scratcher with this delay. The horse finishes 6th, but, it's race #1, and probably we have a reasonably fit animal as these things go.
7/4 :1:00.4 Two mistakes: 1. they've wait 2 weeks post race loosing a lot of conditioning. 2. they go right into 5f in :12s. Can a horse survive 5f in :12s after two weeks off. Russian Roulette in my book.
7/11 1:12 They're back on the 7 day schedule. 2 breezes in :12s in a row 7 days apart. This bodes well for performance under conventional training.
7/19 RACE Wins. What the heck and 8 days since last breeze.
8/3 1:01.8 Waited 2 weeks post race again. Same injury concerns as last time, but probably a fitter animal.
8/10 1:12 still ok, I guess.
8/20 Race. They wait 10 days again. Slow learners, possibly? 6th place but in a stakes race.
Will they give exactly two weeks now till the next work?
9/10: 1:00 They waited 20 days this time. Our injury concerns probably have come to fruition, though this is a nice work.
9/17: 1:00.4 Still going. 7 days.
10/3: whoops. scratched. BUT
10/6 right back to it 1.14.6 NOTE, we have now had 1 work in 26 days.
10/13 :1:02.4 slowing down a bit in his work but they're back to 7 day intervals.
10/20: 1:12 three works in 21 days now. fitness returning?
10/27 :59.8 fastest breeze of the year and 4 in 28 days now.
11/3 :1:03 and 5 breezes in 35 days. The horse has put in his most consistent work since race #1. What will happen?
11/12: RACE. Nine days since last work. Can a horse stay tight that long? RR looks at race finish: 2nd. If I were an owner I might shoot this trainer. I'd be tempted. What if they've breezed say 7 days out. Why, with a race pending do these jackals suddenly wait 8 or 9 days?
Is there more?
11/28 1:14.8 They wait the patented two weeks.
12/6: RACE. The patented 8-9 day wait to race. The horse has almost 4 works in a month but just two between the races over a period of 33 days. That's 1 work every two weeks. Are they expecting to win? The horse finishes 8th.
Summary: This is a typical Bongo horse. What's your opinion? Rush Rush since 4/25 breezed/raced 25 times for an average of 3.4 times every 30 days. 5 races in 7 months. The works were a little farther and faster than the average. They seems to like to work every 7 days after a two week rest for 3 or 4 weeks then they wait 8-9 days for a race. Unknown what they do with their gallops, but, I'd think this is the sort of outfit that probably tries to gallop 1-1.5 miles almost every day. This is similar to Lukas training, but maybe breezes a bit faster. My own personal opinon: I'd fear Bongo and their $75,000 horses but for reasons other than their training, which is Todd Plecher conventional but sharp and consistent in what they do. Fails to work though, it seems.
Bongo lists 25 horses that have raced. Of these 25, with 3 coming back off layoffs, 8 are still racing or 32% have survived the year. That's other than to say the remaining 68% were permanently injured. Let's estimate Bongo moved 4 horses during the year. This would increase their percentage of survivors to almost 50%. I'd guess the 50% comes from a little stronger more consistent training program that the blog has looked at of late.
Training:
Fri. 11/12: riderless 5x3f in the mud very fast on their own without being driven after 3 days off in 50 degree weather.
Sat. 11/13 Good weather continues. 1 mile tack work for each horse mostly trot. The horses then did 2 miles riderless at a brisk pace anticipating fast work tomorrow. A little too much probably.
Sun. 11/14: Bottom drops out of the weather. Cold arrives one day early. It's 20 degrees by the time Knob finishes shoeing with the ground freezing fast. We decide on an all out riderless workout. The ground is muddy-fluffy-deep. The horses do their toughest riderless work to date with warm ups and warm downs: 1 mile + 6f with a 5 min. rest between. This time they are driven and though the workout is less than 20 hours after yesterday's w/o, they chug all the way. Enough hopefully to last a few days through the 5 degrees we have as I type this.
Bongo has a very consistent approach with their horses. You could call it "cookie cutter" as there seems little variation from horse to horse.
Rush Rush is another horse who seems to have lasted the year though he came on board with a breeze in late April. Rush Rush shows a typical Bongo pattern, as follows:
4/25 :36.2
5/2 :48.8
5/9 1.00.8
5/16 1:00.8
5/26 1:14.8 Suddenly a 10 day wait. Was the jockey ill, did they forget about the horse, did the owner fail to pay his bills???
6/3 1:14.8 back on the 7 day schedule he repeats the last work.
6/10 1:26 12 seconds/f for 7f is a 1:24. Were this my horse I'd be enthusiastic with the performance even if they rushed the horse a bit for my taste. Will they breeze again in 7 days?
6/19 RACE ooops. they decide the horse is ready and wait 9 days to the entry. Can a horse stay tight for 9 days after a work? Another head scratcher with this delay. The horse finishes 6th, but, it's race #1, and probably we have a reasonably fit animal as these things go.
7/4 :1:00.4 Two mistakes: 1. they've wait 2 weeks post race loosing a lot of conditioning. 2. they go right into 5f in :12s. Can a horse survive 5f in :12s after two weeks off. Russian Roulette in my book.
7/11 1:12 They're back on the 7 day schedule. 2 breezes in :12s in a row 7 days apart. This bodes well for performance under conventional training.
7/19 RACE Wins. What the heck and 8 days since last breeze.
8/3 1:01.8 Waited 2 weeks post race again. Same injury concerns as last time, but probably a fitter animal.
8/10 1:12 still ok, I guess.
8/20 Race. They wait 10 days again. Slow learners, possibly? 6th place but in a stakes race.
Will they give exactly two weeks now till the next work?
9/10: 1:00 They waited 20 days this time. Our injury concerns probably have come to fruition, though this is a nice work.
9/17: 1:00.4 Still going. 7 days.
10/3: whoops. scratched. BUT
10/6 right back to it 1.14.6 NOTE, we have now had 1 work in 26 days.
10/13 :1:02.4 slowing down a bit in his work but they're back to 7 day intervals.
10/20: 1:12 three works in 21 days now. fitness returning?
10/27 :59.8 fastest breeze of the year and 4 in 28 days now.
11/3 :1:03 and 5 breezes in 35 days. The horse has put in his most consistent work since race #1. What will happen?
11/12: RACE. Nine days since last work. Can a horse stay tight that long? RR looks at race finish: 2nd. If I were an owner I might shoot this trainer. I'd be tempted. What if they've breezed say 7 days out. Why, with a race pending do these jackals suddenly wait 8 or 9 days?
Is there more?
11/28 1:14.8 They wait the patented two weeks.
12/6: RACE. The patented 8-9 day wait to race. The horse has almost 4 works in a month but just two between the races over a period of 33 days. That's 1 work every two weeks. Are they expecting to win? The horse finishes 8th.
Summary: This is a typical Bongo horse. What's your opinion? Rush Rush since 4/25 breezed/raced 25 times for an average of 3.4 times every 30 days. 5 races in 7 months. The works were a little farther and faster than the average. They seems to like to work every 7 days after a two week rest for 3 or 4 weeks then they wait 8-9 days for a race. Unknown what they do with their gallops, but, I'd think this is the sort of outfit that probably tries to gallop 1-1.5 miles almost every day. This is similar to Lukas training, but maybe breezes a bit faster. My own personal opinon: I'd fear Bongo and their $75,000 horses but for reasons other than their training, which is Todd Plecher conventional but sharp and consistent in what they do. Fails to work though, it seems.
Bongo lists 25 horses that have raced. Of these 25, with 3 coming back off layoffs, 8 are still racing or 32% have survived the year. That's other than to say the remaining 68% were permanently injured. Let's estimate Bongo moved 4 horses during the year. This would increase their percentage of survivors to almost 50%. I'd guess the 50% comes from a little stronger more consistent training program that the blog has looked at of late.
Training:
Fri. 11/12: riderless 5x3f in the mud very fast on their own without being driven after 3 days off in 50 degree weather.
Sat. 11/13 Good weather continues. 1 mile tack work for each horse mostly trot. The horses then did 2 miles riderless at a brisk pace anticipating fast work tomorrow. A little too much probably.
Sun. 11/14: Bottom drops out of the weather. Cold arrives one day early. It's 20 degrees by the time Knob finishes shoeing with the ground freezing fast. We decide on an all out riderless workout. The ground is muddy-fluffy-deep. The horses do their toughest riderless work to date with warm ups and warm downs: 1 mile + 6f with a 5 min. rest between. This time they are driven and though the workout is less than 20 hours after yesterday's w/o, they chug all the way. Enough hopefully to last a few days through the 5 degrees we have as I type this.
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