Getting Back To Figuring Frequency

Horses see the track now days, certainly much more than even 3 and 4 years ago. Did you notice Vineyard Haven? Aside from the irony of Sheik Mo winning a Grade I race with a $5000 stud fee, look at VH's PPs which show logical training! VH was seeing the track before the Francis Memorial Dash at Laurel. Rue the day when the Sheik and his trainers figure things out concerning exercise physiology. That may be happening. And, btw, is Lido Palace, the sire of VH another e.g. of how potentially superb sires get buried by incessant stupidity. Lido Palace (awesome) race record, here:

http://www.bloodhorse.com/stallion-register/sr_sire_page.asp?refno=5691899&origin=singlesearch

Although more and more as I do my handicapping I notice horses being breezed/raced on a far more logical schedule than certainly the 1990s on into early 2000s, there are still those 1990s trainers hanging on. Kathy Walsh at Santa Anita is an example of that. I noticed in the Oak Tree Race #1 today Walsh has a horse in that, well, has yet to see the track for a breeze since early Oct. Big Bertha is the name. She's fast. I expect a fade.

But, those 1990s trainers are gradually getting replaced or changing their ways. You see an occasional 5 and 6f breeze even from Nick Zito these days. The steroids are gone and probably the reality of the competition is soaking in to these habitually negligent idiots.

But, the present subject here, instead of racing performance, is "minimums"--what is the least we can do with the horse and still maintain fracture resistance (FR)? The blog way back when determined a minimum speed of 12.5 sec/f over a distance of 4f to even engage bone remodelling. You have to do that much to do anything for the bones. But, how often?

Per last post we look at physiology and anatomy of bone at the molecular level. There is indeed now, last post, some research indicating the affect of "angles of strain" on osteon strength. What happens at the molecular/cellular/atomic level within the bone tissue--i.e. how our speed work affects those tissues, will give us specifics of "minimum frequency" for FR.

Training:
Sat. 10/24: After three weather days off we're back at it. There's still standing water at the farm with 3 more heavy rain days predicted next week. This night both horses tacked for 10 min. in the pasture--walk,trot, gallop, to get back into things.