Performance: Subjects

Injury required some study. Posts on performance happily for the blogger should click right along. Athletic performance is a broad subject in itself and our horses provide additional challenges specific to them. The basic idea is that racing performance can be improved, although this may be a minority idea foreign to many of our trainers the same as this has been for many human coaches, managers and trainers. Even today the idea of enhancing performance seems only of late to come to baseball as we see such teams as the Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Buccaneers with their individual personal trainers for each player succeed year after year regardless of personnel and for the last few years team performance growing stronger as the season progresses. And there are teams such as the KC Royals who only recently and finally acquired a batting coach attuned to improving performance but are still stuck with a manager, GM and pitching coach in general clueless. You see these sorts of teams on a fairly consistent basis fade as a season progresses.

I have watch with interest as the National Football League righted itself in the last decade as in response to competition the NFL has expulsed almost all of its incompetent coaches, and more and more you see even know nothing fans connecting coaching to team performance.

I'll blog on the fly as I embark on this. Neverthless, with a lifetime spent since first picking up a basketball in the 4th grade watching, playing and coaching countless games with an eye to analyzing what separates winners and losers, this is all fairly easy for me at this late point.

My first thought is to define in general what is to be discussed. Subjects! Next.

Training:
4/23: 2011 quickly passes; getting Rod to the races more and more problematical--still nodding at the trot with as the lingering abscess still drains Minor problem last night. light pasture romp with one short fast heat. Avoid too much that would worsen the abscess.