Joan Scott

Another easy on the eyes trainer that I chose at random. Her stable sample is small, simple to follow therefore, and contains interesting photos of some of her horses that will be looked at. For Pics click on Home Page and photo gallery at:
http://www.joanscottracing.com/trainers/jsr/index.cfm?menuid=128

I'll again be looking at injury prevention instead of performance with a view to seeing how frequently Ms. Scott breezes/races and the results. What she does on slow days is unknown. However, the pictures seem to show some very decently conditioned horses. And so, without adieu, here they are:

(Sort of like my stable, hard to find a horse that has really raced. Ms. Scott is back at Tampa.Works start 3/7/08 probably when the website was started. Note, some horses, it appears were never brought north from Tampa. The Tampa horses are thus omitted.)

Conviviality: a maiden that seems to be going backwards. 3 races and 7 works since 6/13/08 and has yet to be heard from since 9/22. Injured, thus. Does 3 breeze/race/month appox.

A Wee Gift: You'd expect the athletic horse in the photo to be decent, and she is. 10 races for the year with 2 wins and a second, but she was scratched from her last race 11/2. A deliberate pattern shows of racing this horse once a month. She shows but 4 breezes for the whole year. She's probably hurt now, but, we'll give benefit of doubt on this one and say she's still with us. 14 breeze race in 11 months. Barely 1 a month. She survived for a while on a well thought out schedule.

Bekagi: 2 races at Tampa in the spring. Probably left behind. This one will be omitted from the analysis.

Caught In The Middle: 4 races to 8/17. Another that's going backward. Shows 7 breezes since 3/7. So 11 works races to 8/17 in 5 months. About 2 breeze/race/month. This horse obviously is injured.

Charedi's Peak: 5 races 6/7 to 10/18. Again, approx. once a month. 12 breezes since 5/18. So, that's 17 breeze race in 5 months or 3.4 per month. We'd expect Charidi to have a better record based on frequency. Only one win though. But this horse had been racing tough. I'll pronounce her injured since we have nothing in 2 months.

Dixiana Darling: 4 races, 3 seconds, 1 win at Tampa. Brought to Keeneland for two works, then disappears. Injured. Good example of the training: 6 breezes/4 races in 3 months = 3.33 per month.

Donay: 3 races including a 1st and 3rd since 7/18. This horse shows a steady pattern of 3 breezes/month till she starts racing. Since 7/18 3 races and 3 works in 2 months = 3/month. Nothing since 9/18. Significantly, 16 days between last work and last race. Can you get away with that? Doubtful. Injured.

Dr. Zic: 1 race which she won. This horse shows 4 breeze/race/month. hmmm. And, still going. Just 1 in November though(???).

Glimmering Hope: 4 races to 5/18. 7 works to 5/18. She made it to Keenland then disappeared. Injured. This horse does 3 breeze/race/mo. after she starts racing.

Iron ID: Does decently in two October races. And shows all of two works. She probably just got this one in. But, significantly he's still going, though only 1 work since 10/22.

Lucky Flyer: Another once a month racer to 9/17. This horse gets but one or two breeze/race a month once it starts racing. Injured, obviously. Last shows 9/17.

Mistya First: will be a good example of J. Scott training since she's around from 3/6 till she disappears on 9/21. 15 breezes/5 races in 5.66 months = 3.5 breeze/race/month. Injured.

Need For Patience: Oh my! Nice series of 4 and 5f works before first race. They enter her on 11/14 in a 1 1/8 mile maiden where she finishes 7th. This horse works 5 times in October but her last work before the route race was 9 days out. This is what I refer to when puzzle of the doings, comings and goings of women trainers. There is simply zero thought process involved in the training of this horse. There's effort, and good intent, without a doubt. But the "be smart" part of the training awol. Still going though, for now.

Put Away The Halo: I'll stop here. Seen enough. 3 races commencing 8/2. 9 works since 5/28. Last heard from 9/22. That's 12 breeze race in 3.66 months or 3.27 breeze.race/month. Injured.

13 horses looked at. 4 still going. 31%.

This is a 3.25 breeze/race/month stable. That's one fast work every 9.5 days. Fails to keep 'em running per the other similar stables we've looked at. I'd like to have Ms. Scott's phone number but probably for reasons other than training horses. Next, the strictly male operated Bongo Racing Stable.

Training.
Thurs. 12/4: Off.
Fri. 12/5: Easy gallop day. Less anxiety(human) on these easy days. But a new problem rears its head in the 32 degree temperature. The ground is so hard the horses are short striding. We'll see how it goes with this weekend's melt. Each horse went 1.7 miles (2 times around). Art mostly slow gallop. Unable to open up due to the ground. Rod's first trip was problematical back to trying to figure out how to breath at the gallop, but, big improvement second go around that was mostly gallop. Nice day and got done what we planned.