Hennig

Another of the Lukas training progeny. Hennig sounded quite intelligent in a recent video. His website shows a lot of horses racing primarily on the east coast:

http://www.hennigracing.com/trainers/hr/index.cfm?menuid=99

We look at Hennig training in terms of frequency of breezing/racing per month. The questions:

How does Hennig train.
How many last the year.

Hennig has so many horses we're able to eliminate the maiden racers in the sample and look only at winning racers. The sample initially consisted of all such racing in the month of May 2008 or 21 horses, but to verify those results I looked also at the same sort of horses that raced in June.

I received an initial shock when 8 of the first 11 horses I looked at made it through the year. This proved the peril of the small sample, but Hennig's percentage is relatively high.

The results:

35 horses. 14 last the year for 40%.

I'm running out of time today. I'll flesh this out in terms of number of races per horse and how Hennig trains, next post.

Training: With brutal weather we're still off though I feel a bit the softie since the Chief's game went right on as scheduled. Another reminder that life can be short. Came home last night to see Rolling Rodney the 3 year old big gray tom cat laying dead in his recently purchased bed. Rod was in the house with his little 19 year old buddy female cat due to the weather. For the last two days before his death Rod had mostly lain in that bed acting ill as a human might with a touch of flu. Unknown how or why he died. When he arrived at the farm deposited by somebody on the road he was diagnosed with carrying the feline leukemia virus. Might have finally got him. No signs of struggle. I think he died peacefully in his sleep. Rod liked people and would constantly roll in our presence. He endeared himself by loving to watch the horses on most days. He'd follow us to the mounting area and often would perch himself up on the mounting stand and watch the proceedings. R.I.P. to Rolling Rodney the cat. We'll miss him!