The 12/1 Training Window

December 1, and we mark it down! The next year's race prep, forget the ice flow, begins "now", if it is we plan to race. As a e.g. my stable's last racing year was 2003. We hit Eureka downs around 12/19 that year, got good winter training weather, and barely felt comfortable racing by the opening on 5/1. Training with attention to injury preventing detail goes slowly.

At any rate, our horse Rollin'Rod, with dry, normal weather around here since 10/1 has achieved excellent conditioning, mostly riderless work, although the tack work has also been fairly steady. Should the weather continue to be favorable, and the forecast indicates mostly dry, it's time to transition completely to tack work, which will be done over the next 2 weeks. Polar bear weather hit KC two days ago and so will hold Mr. Nob to his prior year's bragging that he can ride down to 11 degrees. We'll see!

Training:

Tues. 11/30: off.