Training Update

An update until the next bone post that will appear soon. And I have to comment on that nicely done article on training by Bill Pressey that appeared in Blood Horse. Good job, Bill!

Here in KCMO, by Monday 5/24, we'll be in our 14th straight day of mud. Our ground Friday morning is shown in the photo. There are horses in the middle upper right.

This weather equates with our April 2009 where weather wiped out the whole training month.

I have this year been able to do a little with the young horse here and there. But, as I think about the last nine months of weather the period since Sept. 2009 equates cumulatively to the worst stretch of wet the last 3 years. It gets worse, and then worse and worse. Essentially we've been unable to do any race prep on our ground dating to mid Sept. 2009 due to the weather.

In the last two weeks the horses have been off due to soupy muddy conditions except for one day of walking under tack, which I decided was primarily useless, and last Wed. when the mud was surprisingly packed down and we were able to do a few riderless spurts where the horses somehow kept their shoes. We might have trotted any other horse except our Rolling Rodney who just has trouble at this gait in these sorts of conditions.

Today we have dry with sun and wind. It starts again, I suppose. And, we go with what mother nature deals to us.