I'll Have Another, Right And Wrong
Sometimes u outsmart urself(see title, last post). Ok, a horse can win the Derby off 4 straight 2m+ gallops. I like Bill Pressey's take. See post comments. Bloggers take full credit for Derby win. Doug O'Neill changed up his training after (like thousands of others) read our two blogs (See O'Neill interview link, bottom last post.)
As to the Derby in general, chalk one up for training. Does anyone thing Patrick Byrne, the trainer of Take Charge Indy or Mike Matz were paying attention. I'd doubt it.
This Derby may actually be the beginning of the end of Woody Stephens type conventional training. Bound to happen. Q will be whether they'll carry things too far as, in terms of injury prevention, as they have with I'll Have Another. Let's observe that IHA with those gallops is on the edge of reason. They simply r unable to survive that sort of nonsense on a consistent basis. There is zero question about that fact. Yes, obviously this sort of training gets performance--see human 800 meter training--but that's without the tremendous cumulative concussive forces for our horses.
And so, unlike my horse you can 2m+ again the day before the race. In terms of right and wrong however, let's hope those Arch legs will hold up and something rational in Doug O'Neill's head pops before they give out.
Suicidal fractions for Bodemeister. And, what beautiful camera work by NBC. Congrats to Paul Redam and the newly incarnated Doug O'Neill and also Claiborne Farm were Arch stands. We Arch broodmare horse owners have had a happy day.
As to the Derby in general, chalk one up for training. Does anyone thing Patrick Byrne, the trainer of Take Charge Indy or Mike Matz were paying attention. I'd doubt it.
This Derby may actually be the beginning of the end of Woody Stephens type conventional training. Bound to happen. Q will be whether they'll carry things too far as, in terms of injury prevention, as they have with I'll Have Another. Let's observe that IHA with those gallops is on the edge of reason. They simply r unable to survive that sort of nonsense on a consistent basis. There is zero question about that fact. Yes, obviously this sort of training gets performance--see human 800 meter training--but that's without the tremendous cumulative concussive forces for our horses.
And so, unlike my horse you can 2m+ again the day before the race. In terms of right and wrong however, let's hope those Arch legs will hold up and something rational in Doug O'Neill's head pops before they give out.
Suicidal fractions for Bodemeister. And, what beautiful camera work by NBC. Congrats to Paul Redam and the newly incarnated Doug O'Neill and also Claiborne Farm were Arch stands. We Arch broodmare horse owners have had a happy day.
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1 Comments:
I record HR/GPS/blood lactate numbers on many horses that 2min lick in the mornings.
Stakes quality horses accomplish this workload with HR values under 200bpm and with blood lactates well under 4 mmmol/liter.
However, lesser quality stock show HR values over 220bpm and blood lactate values over 8 mmmol/liter.
It's all relative, daily 2 min lick miles for I'll Have Another are similar physiologically to the garden variety claimer going in 2:30 for that mile.
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