Sat. Misc.

Way back when while watching my horse breeze Ivers style at the Woodlands here in KC a polite middle aged trainer came up to me, introduced himself, and said "I just want you to know you don't have to do all that to run horses." A point that has stuck with me through the years and bears repeating--"you don't have to do this--go through all this trouble--to run horses."

This isolated incident encapsulates fairly completely the mindset of many on the backstretch which is in their sense the idea of keeping your eye on the ball as to what is the aim of this exercise--getting your horse to run.

It's really a minimalist sort of mindset--getting your horse to the race, and thereafter it's up to the horse, the pedigree and by all means the jock. You want to be some new-comer owner/trainer/or whatever know it all, good luck with this pervasive backstretch mindset

There are two things to it, possibly:
1. the minimalist method of getting them there.
2. the whys and wherefores.

#2 is interesting and will try addressing it next post. I'd like to have a talk as to training method with the trainer of this horse:


Training:
Thurs. 9/1: riderless speed work.
Fr. 9/1: 10 min easy riderless + 1 mile trot under tack.