Trainer Frequencies

The question: do trainer stats tell us anything concerning injuries and the necessary frequency of speed work?

The O'Gorman mug shot should give a hint.

The blog post of 1/23/09 collates injury results in 14 different stables, a small sample. However, the training of over a thousand horses was looked at, many exhaustively through their careers. These are found in this blog, fall/winter 2008-9.

And, we have all the injury results of noted retired English Trainer Bill O'Gorman here:

http://www.racinghorsesbook.com/does_it_work.htm

I am an admirer of O'Gorman training, and of course his results at the race track. The link indicates O'Gorman's permanent injury stats per year. This will serve as one of the two bench marks. The other will be the training of D.W. Lukas.

Here is a summary of injury rates by trainer:

% permanent injury rate per year/average no. of speed events--breezes-race--per month

33%/8.00 O'Gorman

35%/3.54 Catherine Day Phillips

43%/3.33 D.Wayne Lukas

50%/2.98 Mark Hennig

50%/3.00 Bruce Jackson

50%/3.00 Todd Plecher

50%/3.4 Bongo Racing Stable

55%/??? Kiarin McGlaughlin

55%/??? Mark Casse

62%/4.00 Richard Mandella

65%/???Reade Baker

65%/Mr or Ms. Average American Conventional Trainer

69%/3.25 Linda Rice

75%/2.88 Doug O'Neill

While cursory glance reveals little, a closer look, next post.

Training:

12/11-12/14: After the deep freeze, it's warming up. Could have gone today. Inclined to give horse and trainer another day or two off.