Thurs. Misc.

Hopefully back to normal blogging tomorrow. Last night's training:

Wed. 7/1/09:
Art: gets 2nd day off.
Rod: 2nd speed work, big improvement. Horse smoother and does it very easily. Nob continues to report how easily big fellow carries weight, and that thus far he's attacking his gallops instead of being lazy as we'd expected. Breathing in the initial stages of every gallop heat continues to be a problem until the horse starts to get his air. Then the breathing becomes normal.
2.7 miles total volume. the aim was to get 3 -4 speed heats of 1.5-2f in there. 3 turned out to be enough as the horse galloped farther and faster then planned. A little :14 stuff here and there.