Tues. Misc.

Pleasure to hear from Lamar Simic, last post, vet/horse trainer from Serbia.  Comment from this part of Europe reminds me of Miroslav Krleza who wrote a book emblazoned into my mind called "On The Edge Of Reason"--as good as "The Trial" by Kafka, which is high high praise. Although, I see that Krleza was a Croatian.  Statute(monument) of Krleza above in Zagreb for perspective.

To answer Q my pre-race Vet exams consisted of trot, palpitation, visual inspection.  Horse generally scratched with slightest problem which causedQ as to how O'Neill thought he could run and expected IHA to pass the State Vet exam.

Nice post by Pressey on Drafting in races today:

http://thoroedge.wordpress.com/

Would be interesting had Baffert worked to point where he could have breezed his colt in 1:22 instead of 1:25.  Different result maybe.  I had--and I had it after all these years--a little training epiphany this morning in terms of getting performance. Maybe I have finally gotten over my stumbling block of appropriate off day work for performance.  Will post on that soon.

52 year old athlete recounts 6 months of training for a meet that he wins. Horse specific stuff in his conclusions.  Another gem from T-Nation: 
http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/most_recent/heavy_lessons