Some Misc. Derby And IHA

"If training outs, I'll Have Another in a walk away if he holds together.  I always go with the training if it's superior, and here we have both a talented horse and the hardest trained horse."

May 4 RR post. Toot Toot, except I retracted it all Sat. morning after IHA did a Fri. 2 min gallop.  Wish there's have been vids of the track works race week.  On site we have Blood Horse, TT Times, DRF, and Paulick, and Jill Byrne and Co. and best they can manage  are 2 or 3 m. daily reports with 60 seconds of track vid. Pitiful coverage imo.  Lenny Schulman, just stay in bed.  And so, it is hard to judge what IHA actually did on Friday or the rest of the week as there were mere flashes of him rounding the quarter pole.

My concern based on my experience is that horses frequently poop out doing consecutive faster works.  Note Bill Pressey's comment on my Derby post on the differences in heart rate between stakes and claiming horses for the same work.  What does this mean?  Simply that IHA's 2 min. gallop Fri. likely was far less strenuous both in heart rate terms and in a general recovery sense than the effort and recovery abilities of my own lowly hides back in the day.

I'd say there are several theories on what to do the day before race day.  Avoid expounding all that here. It goes with the overall subject of "performance".   We saw IHA 2 min lick every day last week and a tough race on Sat. This is Max Hirsch training gone amuck to the point I'd want to avoid being a corpuscle in that horse's legs just now.  Arch legs.  Nevertheless.  As one with a training license, which gathers one's mind a little, does common sense dictate that u avoid going over the top with any particular horse.  Will be interesting how they train for the Preakness.

http://www.equibase.com/static/chart/pdf/CD050512USA11.pdf