Performance Subjects Continued
Interesting race 4/24 at Gulfstream called Capital Request Thoroughbred Charities Stakes. Out of the gate in :52. How often do you see that? What followed later in the race was revealing: the entire field at Gulfstream--and how many times does this happen with soft east coast training--running hard to the wire.
Scroll down here to the race listings and watch it for the possible lesson. I'll be up only a short time.
http://www.bloodhorse.com/
A bunch of inferior conditioned fillies each and everyone running to the wire I believe is something I've never seen. Maybe in the Breeder's Cup. Does most of the field usually tie up somewhere around the 3/16th?
Q. To what extent did the mere fact that this field used the first 4f to essentially warm up into the speed affect this performance? Ooops. Warm 'em up-- they all run instead of most of them dying 3/4 of the race in. I have dubbed this the "Z" strategy (see Zenyatta).
Such is" intuitiveness", an important exercise concept, gained by race analysis with a view to winning and losing. The causes and effects that result in performance. This Gulfstream race may be merely coincidence. More likely however, the results reflect the slow early pace that allowed the fillies to slowly wind into their speed. Pressey's interesting comments provide another possible explanation--see last couple of posts!
So, having been away from a race track 4 years now, as I slowly wind into this, what is it we're talking about? Exercise physiology/science is of course in the background of athletic discussion. More to it than that though. The human element. The perceptive abilities of the trainer, information processing, that execution of elevated common sense as it applies to athletic performance, basic intuitiveness as to performance and where that comes from, and also and in contrast, highly refined intuition, and last, but hardly least, the unique challenges of our equines.
Guinea pit idiot grazing in the back yard while I type. He'll be cooperating, hopefully.
Training: raining yesterday when I got to the office, raining when I left, raining when I got up this morning. Off.
Scroll down here to the race listings and watch it for the possible lesson. I'll be up only a short time.
http://www.bloodhorse.com/
A bunch of inferior conditioned fillies each and everyone running to the wire I believe is something I've never seen. Maybe in the Breeder's Cup. Does most of the field usually tie up somewhere around the 3/16th?
Q. To what extent did the mere fact that this field used the first 4f to essentially warm up into the speed affect this performance? Ooops. Warm 'em up-- they all run instead of most of them dying 3/4 of the race in. I have dubbed this the "Z" strategy (see Zenyatta).
Such is" intuitiveness", an important exercise concept, gained by race analysis with a view to winning and losing. The causes and effects that result in performance. This Gulfstream race may be merely coincidence. More likely however, the results reflect the slow early pace that allowed the fillies to slowly wind into their speed. Pressey's interesting comments provide another possible explanation--see last couple of posts!
So, having been away from a race track 4 years now, as I slowly wind into this, what is it we're talking about? Exercise physiology/science is of course in the background of athletic discussion. More to it than that though. The human element. The perceptive abilities of the trainer, information processing, that execution of elevated common sense as it applies to athletic performance, basic intuitiveness as to performance and where that comes from, and also and in contrast, highly refined intuition, and last, but hardly least, the unique challenges of our equines.
Guinea pit idiot grazing in the back yard while I type. He'll be cooperating, hopefully.
Training: raining yesterday when I got to the office, raining when I left, raining when I got up this morning. Off.
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