Animal Kingdom Training (cont.)

What sort of training produced the Animal Kingdom Derby performance? What might we expect in the Preakness? One of the horse racing "blanks" to be filled in is, as noted by Bill O'Gorman in his book, inexplicable performances. At certain select moments horses outrun their physical training.

I bring this up again after watching the informative video in the link below showing the AK trainer as a negative, guarded fellow(my impression). How Graham Motion meshes with the prickly Barry Irwin over the long haul should be interesting. Even more interesting, the link shows the full Wednesday pre-Preakness gallop of AK:
http://www.drf.com/news/video-animal-kingdoms-trainer-owner-discuss-preakness-preparations

Tough horse to gallop as he's on the edge of "out of control" early on. Looks to me as though the horse is traveling mostly in :16s and :17s, decent off day speed but what I consider "morning exercise" for my racing horses instead of anything moving a horse forward.
If all you're doing with the horse is this for 2 weeks post race, how much can you expect on Saturday? There's a vid of the Thurs. gallop showing roughly the same workout and speed and other AK vids showing his physique reduced now almost to Plecher stall baby status. Serious red flags by my standards.
Of course if the horse is then thrown into a field of trainers doing the same things, somebody's got to win. In the Preakness however, we have Mucho Macho doing that breeze in the slop--something I'd have avoided and waited to a better day for injury reasons--and Baffert getting a nice breeze in for his horse. You'd expect Mucho Macho Man to be very tough in this race, although, woman trainer, you never know. Maybe she's really this good and this perceptive. Still has to prove that to me. Give her full credit to the point Mucho's my horse, if he holds together.

Baffert's animal--how many times does a horse come back in his next race after a poor performance as Midnight Lute in the Derby where the horse never ran a jump. Something amiss there besides the training, and while ML might indeed come back with a good race, I'd avoid betting this will happen.

Again run out of room to look at actual AK training schematic. I want to look at that and a few others after the Preakness.

Training:
Wed. 5/18 riderless speed play + 3 times trot gallop up and down hill.
Fri. 5/19 36 hrs wait due to rain. Perfect conditions/soft surface for speed work this morn. Several riderless burst and finally positioned older horse about 10 lengths in the lead. Took Rodney all out 3.5f to catch him. Nice work. Might do a little tack work this eve.