Trainers: A Group Evaluation

It appears I've run out of time again today. It's 10:28 p.m. and I've sworn a six mile run before bed. So, I'll leave this post unfinished, and hopefully continue tomorrow. Hint: the photo above was not taken at the latest meeting of our local HBPA (although it might have been.)

Training:
Tues. 1/20: Off.
Wed. 1/21: Wow and wow. More to leave us smiling. Interesting how these develop.

This one started routinely. Rod trot-galloping 2.25 miles, with Nob noting "improvement". Art in his gallop bolted from a deer herd a mile in and we almost lost our rider. Riderless work was planned as a continuous slow mile with warm up and warm down. Then the excitement started as the horses simply took off. Probably 2f in :14s, and the last 6f all out. We've been waiting a year for Rod, the 3 yr. old, to show us something, and tonight was the night. Instead of dropping out when challenged, he continued his thing that began 1/18 of merely speeding up and staying ahead of the horse. That was nice. But, what blew us away was that this (formerly) lazy youngster proceeded to sprint all out for the entire 6f, and flashed what looked to us some real sprinting speed that made our day.