Performance Variables--Synergy
Synergy: two or MORE things functioning together to produce a result.
the term synergy comes from the Greek word synergia from synergos, meaning "working together".
My theory regards race horses is that we do as much as humanly possible in terms of optimized care, and if the horse then finishes up the track: horse's fault.
The other side of this coin is trainers who are slackards either in something or everything, and here a slackard includes refusal or inability to take note of sophisticated though fairly obvious training variables such as e.g. conditioning for the event. Matz injures another. As certain as the sun rising in the morning.
Performance variable summarized:
The List
Animal Husbandry
Talent
Athletic Conditioning For Performance And Injury Prevention
Race Strategy
Injury Prevention--a category unto itself
Misc.
Each of the above have importance. The sub categories under each general variable (listed in prior posts) are important. Do any of these general or sub categories have more importance on race day?
I thought the concept of Synergy more as a talking point for illustration than any sort of recommended approach is useful. The performance variables are synergistic. They're each needed for the result. It's therefore unnecessary to rank their importance. Ignore one, however insignificant, and you start relying on the horse's ability to overcome your stupidity. You might even win a Belmont stakes or have your horse win the Derby only to fracture it's left hind pastern in the Preakness and subsequently die after a heroic (but flawed) vet effort because for a time the horse overcame what u failed to do.. Happens. Bill O'Gorman in his book called some of these performances inexplicable, and I'd agree. I'd thought two 5f breezes between Derby and Preakness quite enough for Union Rags and the 1.5 mile Belmont. I guess not.
And so--Matz, and who we noted in a post before the Derby pronounced his horse "fit" and unnecessary therefor to do anything significant with him in the month before the Derby as to today's poster boy for non-synergy.
My take--got to have all this under control all the time. Synergy. Everything necessary. Ignore anything and it will bite u, sooner rather than later. How many races have been lost because some idiot shoe'd a horse the day of the race? If we have any sense we understand the problems that causes for the horse.
With this proviso that everything is important, I have decided to start this thing on performance with exercise schematics. Is there anything we do on the track in the morning that might optimize performance on race day and also keep our horse racing?
the term synergy comes from the Greek word synergia from synergos, meaning "working together".
My theory regards race horses is that we do as much as humanly possible in terms of optimized care, and if the horse then finishes up the track: horse's fault.
The other side of this coin is trainers who are slackards either in something or everything, and here a slackard includes refusal or inability to take note of sophisticated though fairly obvious training variables such as e.g. conditioning for the event. Matz injures another. As certain as the sun rising in the morning.
Performance variable summarized:
The List
Animal Husbandry
Talent
Athletic Conditioning For Performance And Injury Prevention
Race Strategy
Injury Prevention--a category unto itself
Misc.
Each of the above have importance. The sub categories under each general variable (listed in prior posts) are important. Do any of these general or sub categories have more importance on race day?
I thought the concept of Synergy more as a talking point for illustration than any sort of recommended approach is useful. The performance variables are synergistic. They're each needed for the result. It's therefore unnecessary to rank their importance. Ignore one, however insignificant, and you start relying on the horse's ability to overcome your stupidity. You might even win a Belmont stakes or have your horse win the Derby only to fracture it's left hind pastern in the Preakness and subsequently die after a heroic (but flawed) vet effort because for a time the horse overcame what u failed to do.. Happens. Bill O'Gorman in his book called some of these performances inexplicable, and I'd agree. I'd thought two 5f breezes between Derby and Preakness quite enough for Union Rags and the 1.5 mile Belmont. I guess not.
And so--Matz, and who we noted in a post before the Derby pronounced his horse "fit" and unnecessary therefor to do anything significant with him in the month before the Derby as to today's poster boy for non-synergy.
My take--got to have all this under control all the time. Synergy. Everything necessary. Ignore anything and it will bite u, sooner rather than later. How many races have been lost because some idiot shoe'd a horse the day of the race? If we have any sense we understand the problems that causes for the horse.
With this proviso that everything is important, I have decided to start this thing on performance with exercise schematics. Is there anything we do on the track in the morning that might optimize performance on race day and also keep our horse racing?
posted by rather rapid at
11:35 AM
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Take a look at IHA's vet treatment and medication list posted on Bloodhorse,I would not say that it is a routine care if you have to inject Dex and Bute all the time to keep the horse going.
Lazar--good to hear from u again, and hoping all is well in Serbia!
I had mixed reactions on IHA meds. , as u noted, some sort of problem with IHA earlier. My quandry would be--horse showing a little heat somewhere, USA Triple Crown ahead. Interesting dilemma--and another lesson in ethics, possibly? Trainer serving suspension while denying guilt just caught in distortions re IHA. Good grief. Lesson to be truthful about condition of horse maybe?
Yes,everything seems to be fine here.
And from the vet diagnosis it is clear that tendon problem has started to develop earlier,the question here is why the trainer was saying all the time that his horse was doing great when it is clear that he was in problems big enough to prevent him to make the run for the Triple Crown?
And by continuing to work him every day in the same manner he consciously ruined the horse that could be easily recovered for the second part of the racing season. Right after the Preakness he could probably see that Belmont run is out of question but he continued with the horse in the hope that medications will get him to the Test of a Champion.But it does not go that way.Matz also was able to see that there is a big price to pay when win at 1.5 miles with a horse barely fit for one mile run,Union Rags came up with a suspensory damage.
O'Neill is still saying the horse was doing great.guessing in O'Neill's mind he probably was. The blog way back when contains an analysis of that stable which(was) other than pretty. Highest injury rate of about 20 stables I looked at in detail. 75% permanent injury rate per year right off O'Neill's 2008 website.
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