Blog Review, Frequency, Injury Prevention

Fins become legs. Interesting what transpired 465 million years ago. First fish crawled out of the water and one of them becomes an ancestor to our horse. Or maybe this fellow below, although it looks more like something that might "eat" a horse. Left click to get a good look. Been spending too much time on paleontology of late.














And, with that warm up, back to injury prevention. The 2009 blog has been reread and the thought process regathered. Some highlights:

Weather bad. Truly awful. Worse than I remember.

And, "avoid the Quality Road bandwagon due to lack of attention to detail by Jimmie Jerkens."

Pamplemoose: "Canani will almost certainly screw up this horse some way before 1st Saturday in May." I take little pleasure in those predictions. The same could be said for most of the Derby prospects.

How to prevent injuries, 8Belles, GW, Dunkirk, and so on, the blog focused on developing a minimum exercise formula involving:

Speed

Distance

Frequency

Race appropriate bone remodeling requires 4f in :12.5f/sec. Go slower or less distance it's useless in terms of new remodeling (although there might be a reinforcement effect.). How to establish minimum frequency as to how often these workouts must be done.

January 15 Andres Tovar (prescient) doctoral thesis-- much work has yet to be done before we understand bone remodelling. Mathematical theory noting we have establish interaction of bone--cell to cell--unit to unit--in regards response to stress.

Continue tomorrow.

Training:
Tues. 9/22 Very wet. Decided riderless. Art did about 1.5 miles play with Rod. Rod then did 2 miles more in spurts as fast as the mud allowed. Medium tough w/o.
Wed. 9/23:
Art: 1 mile trot-gallop easy + 2 miles riderless in spurts.
Rod: 2 miles easy gallop broken up in prep for faster on Thurs.