Jim Day and Catherine Day-Phillips

Another one from the past. James Day. 1968 Olympic Equestrian Gold Medalist, trainer of Regal Classic and Dance Smartly, and father of Catherine Day-Phillips:



http://www.catherinedayphillipsracing.com/trainers/cdp/index.cfm?menuid=72


Txs. to KH for again steering me in the right direction. Training result here might be interesting!

The website includes results and workouts. Day-Phillips is college graduate, cute, married darn it, moderate number of stalls at Woodbine and South Florida, the usual puffing, develops young horses, etc. etc., Do you want RR snooping around ur site? We'll see.

My running comments as I look at the site:

Readers here know of my skepticism re woman trainers. No offense to the ladies intended since my own experience in girls basketball indicated that girls approach athletics otherwise than do the men and with different motivations--more social, competitive with some comparative limits. So in my experience is it with lady horse trainers. But, again, new site, open mind, and we'll hold her accountable for what she's posted.

Here's my running commentary as I look at this site. We want to know how she trains in terms of number of breeze/race/month, and her injury percentages over the year.

Woodbine trainer, it appears, and so instead of starting with the first 20 racers in January, brrrr, look at May instead.

Oh, Oh. First sign of trouble. There's Red Raffles racing a 2nd on May 4 and coming back on May 25 (nice spacing) with a 10th. Red flag.

Of the first 5 horses checked 3 are still going. The crow is cooking in the pot...

Red Raffles is injured 9/27. Came back decently though.

This trainer gets more races out of her horses....

I have to go from 5/1 to 7/15 to get a 17 horse sample. 87 horses on the site and just a few racing. Sounds like my stable. lol. Presume lot's of young 2 year olds here. Seems that sort of operation. To confirm this I went outside the sample and clicked on the first ten horses from the bottom. Only one race listed among them.

Results: 17 horses race 92 times for 2008 for a total of 5.4 per horse. 8 of the 17 are still going for 47%.(Note, I may revise this after looking at workouts to find any injured that may now be back.) Have to observe that 2 of these 8 have come off long layoffs to race recently, but, at least--unlike these other trainers--they are back. (Note that Doug O'Neill recently had a couple of his injured return--Mystical Plan and one other). Decline to give Day-Phillips the usual rope and increase her percentage. The website shows fairly true results since they enter frequently presumably when they are able. Thus, I'd suspect Day-Phillip's overall (i.e. other then career ending) injury rate at about 50% over a whole year. That's fairly decent, when you think about it. 50% of these frequently raced horses were without any injury at all. And, the horses that race the most get hurt less, a running thread on all these sites.

How does Day-Phillips get this lower than average (compared to the several others I've looked at) injury rate?It's a smaller sample, but, I'll look at her workouts and try to peg the training, next post.

Training: 21 degrees at 4:40 p.m. in KC. We decided to skip the 3rd day in a row. Could have and maybe should have gone, but declined.