Tues. Misc.

"Hamlet, Hamlet..."

"Good my lord, be quiet..."

"Why I will fight with him upon this theme
Until my eyelids will no longer wag."

"...Nay, and thou'lt mouth,
I'll rant as well as thou."

--Hamlet

Act V, Scene I. Possibly literature's penultimate. And so, Pressey's self described"rant" last prior post is hardly new, as ranting goes. And, a comment from Australia. Welcome. We are T.J. Smith and Gai Waterhouse admirers here!

While B. Pressey and myself differ on the lasix , we seems to share the Q of TB training and trainers mostly involving how few of them seem to "get it" in terms of applying exercise physiology to their training.

Being likely a little longer in the tooth than Pressey and therefore through a few likely more years of sitting back in amazement watching well meaning souls "train" horses, I have through the years put all this into my own personal perspective.

For me this all precedes horses and goes back to my basketball years. Exercise science is ignored in human as well as equine sports so that even to this day the Kansas City Royals have a manager and general manager seemingly without any clue how their noodle arm pitchers keep getting hurt. There is little sense e.g. with this management how poorly in general in human athletics that non-weight lifters do against weight lifters--in the case of baseball e.g. the Boston Red Sox with their personal trainers vs. the K.C. Royals.

In my experience maybe 25% of those coaches active in human athletics "get it" in terms of connecting conditioning with performance and injury prevention. At the higher levels competition and weeding out the idiots has expelled the last non-conditioning coaches out of the NFL--and that was Herman Edwards with his pajama party practices right here in KCMO. And, by and large the NBA now has conditioning coaches. Baseball is behind, but you may expect that to change as quickly as the next younger generation comes on board.

With horses there are numerous reasons. I think the primary one is that most horse trainers came to the game because they know how to throw horse feed. Almost none of them are athletes themselves and therefore none have themselves done the conditioning that improves their own athletic performance.

It's an interesting Q, and while it's up there, will continue with a few more opinions, next post.

Training:
Tack work 8/27 and 8/29 with riderless speed work every three days. Will call to Remington tomorrow to check on eligibility. Big phone call.