Post Breeze/Race Remodeling VIII: A Review

Officially back on subject. How can we make this more grave? Injury prevention, nuts and bolts. Derby and Preakness distractions over, we're back on here with the real stuff as we continue to consider Priority #1 for performance: keeping our horse running. Can we use Rachel Alexandra and Mine That Bird as examples!

To this effect I had postulated a model involving bone soundness and fracture resistance, and how we achieve those important goals. And, yes, we will be avoiding any lecture on the subject from Larry Jones. Sorry to pick on this soon to be retired trainer, but is that a case study in what to avoid when training horses? And, just as interesting, what does it say about the current state of pre-race diagnostics when they discover 2 fractures in Friesan Fire after the race.

The last post on this was 4/24 or so. To review, I'd concluded that to achieve race appropriate fracture resistance(FR) there needs to be minimum breezing/racing work for a distance of 4f at a speed of :12.5/f. Going slower or less distance may fail to get what we need.

The next question involves the minimum frequency necessary at said appropriate speed and distances to get and keep FR. I'd begun to look at this at the cellular level speculating precisely what occurs during and after the breeze. Technical stuff, as I read back, but some interesting points for anyone wanting to slug through it.

Were was I, exactly?

I'm going to run out of time here, and will be out of town for the weekend, so this will continue on Monday. We're training our two at the farm. Rain this week, but we've had a decent May to springboard into June. I'll review that next week and hope soon to have on video of one of our track gallops.