Sunday, January 18, 2009

This was our farm Friday 1/16, and below shows today at 50 degrees for which we're grateful. It's mid-January. The snow outlines our track quite well, and there are some horses in there. Summarizing these trainer stats is taking some time. I'll try to start Monday, and will also take further note of Square Eddie, The Pamplemousse, and also Bill's comments re those racing horses in Ky two posts ago.

Training:
Sat. 1/17: after 4 weather days off, riderless play three miles intermittent with rests and some fast stuff. Enthusiasm. Each horse then walk-trot a mile tack.
Sun. 1/18: Stretching out Rod under tack till he learns his stuff. 1.8 miles for him today trot-walk-gallop and he was all over the place. Art's gallop aborted after .9 miles as Nob reports the slightly sprung right rear shoe giving trouble. Both horses went riderless about 3 miles with 2 miles of it continuous snappy slow gallop.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

RR-

Looks like you have some rolling hills within your training track?

I've had nothing but great results from such gallops, especially in my female racers for some reason.

We gallop up strongly, then jog down slower on the back end - where the decline section is a bit deeper and sandy. Thinly disguised interval training.

1/19/09, 10:10 AM  

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