More Whys And Wherefores Of "Trainers"

We avoid making fun of people on this program, er...blog. Although, unavoidable on occasion. Someone had pointed out to me that Bill Belichick's (football coach--New England Patriots) many assistants all failed as head coaches--Charlie Weiss, Romeo Crennel, Josh McDaniels and Co. Each was unable to duplicate the master in differing venues.

This supports the premise last post that carrying on intelligent exercise programs is a trick for the few. If e.g. you wisely recognize yourself as a well proven certified shlub and your also training horses, how receptive will you be to "exercise science"?

And, our owners--"good grief, how can we identify these sorts". Answer: take a walk down their shed rows. If you've got eyeballs you'll recognize them in a heartbeat.

Intelligent trainers--and there are many of them, have many other aspects of their particular exercise choices--factors that influence them and militate against what seems logically obvious.
This is the place for the list:

1. The trainer's mission--the training game by its nature has our good trainer's primary focus hustling their next owner. "Training" the owner's horse is well and good, but secondary to the mission of financial survival at the race track. Why do you do what you do with the horse? This message gets mixed up with the question of what I am doing here in the first place.

2. The numbers game--this regrettable unspoken aspect of the back stretch likely is the primary reason for most of the training program. In the year 2007 at the Woodlands when that long time Nebraska trainer in the shed row beside me at the end of the meet packed up his shed row into the trailer for the trip home every last one of them was injured, the last injury having come in a final minor stakes for his one survivor the day before. Is this necessarily a problem for this fellow? I'd guess he'd been playing the exact same game for 20 years at least and would venture that in the spring of 2008 he still had a shed row with an entirely new group of horses on which to work his magic. The mantra on the back stretch is: bring on the next one. In the past they've always always popped up. Given the length of shelf life, why bother with any particular horse, unless it's winning, of course.

Out of time, continue next.
Training:
Sun. 9/13 Riderless speed work--flashing speed today. Tack--walked 10 min. In weather rider's legs like jelly again and unable to get up out of the saddle to trot.
Mon. 9/14: Off
Tues. 9/14: Riderless lengthy speed work. Declined tack work near dark. Will post shortly on our horse and some vids. Some small hope remains that we can get him to the race track, but that's about all it is at this point.