Friday, January 23, 2009

Training

A continuing post on Trainer Summaries appears after this post.
Wed: 1/21 Rod 2.25 miles tack work, trot-gallop and Art 1.5 miles with about a mile of gallop. The horses then did a riderless continuous mile breeze with the last 6f at max speed. Rod (pictured 1/19) showed some stuff this date.
Thursday, 1/22: rest.
Fri. 1/23 36 hours after the last work and with weather blowing in we recommence this morning. This workout was understandably flat due to insufficient rest. + half frozen ground stung 'em here and there.
Rod: 2.25 mile with1/2 trot-1/2 gallop. Improvment again, says Mr. Nob, but in half whiskers.
Art 1 mile of gallop in :18s and 1/2 mile trot.
The riderless work was planned as 1 mile continuous in :14 with some spurts depending on how they went. Rod failed to repeat his brilliant w/o of 36 hours ago and kept falling behind. I was so involved in keeping Rod going that I lost track of the other two horses, but everybody probably would up without about 3 miles of riderless work between intermittent sprints and warm up and warm down. Weather will put us into off days, and this was decent for 1/23.




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