Travers

I dialed in the Travers only post race being encouraged a bit that even a great horse such as Quality Road needs to be trained for the distance, although I'm guessing surface conditions hardly did any favors for QR. And, indeed a light hoofed Birdstone plows on through the mud. I briefly looked at Summer Bird's PPs. Nothing spectacular, except he trains steadily since the first of the year. Keep 'em running!, My other thought--if Hold Me Back had any other trainer...but this you could say about most of them.

Training:
Thurs. 8/27: was going to go in the morning, but horses broke into a 10 min full speed pasture romp this eve. we let it go as a workout. standing water from the latest rains.
Fri. 8/28: ground conditions. again we can get more done riderless than tack. and, Art needs to get in some fast licks since the layoff. Planned 2f heats that turned into 3 as we're unable to stop 'em. should have aborted this earlier--4 x 3f in light mud as fast as they could go. Mistake on my part. Never improvise up. Art luckily survived the mistake. easily could have pulled something with the 3 week layoff.