Optimal Exercise Schematics

This is a technical training post, which I consider highly important.

Recent financial windfall for the blogger in amt. of $17,500 opens up possibility of buying new horse.  And so, would like to get back to Q of performance hopefully when there is a live subject to deal with.

Want to post, however, before temporarily leaving topic, of a problem in exercise schematics that maybe I've solved after all these years.

It never mattered whose program I was doing--Ivers, Preston Burch, T.J. Smith, or my own hybrids, I never figured a rational solution as to what to do on the slow gallop days.  I grew into the Sport off of Tom Ivers, and in retrospect was likely severely set astray.  I received the impression from Ivers that the more slow work the better.  And so, If I breezed 6f in 1:12 to 1:14 ever 4 days there was the Q--what do do in between.  The same Q exists for the every three day breezing in the Preston Burch Program.  Burch wrote--do in those two days what the Trainer deems best.  Well--if the horse is breezing 5f to a mile every three days your temptation is to do nothing in the two off days, but then exercising the horse only every three days hardly seems enough.

U start to get the picture.  In the case of the every 4 days breezing Iver's program, here is the thought process:

6f in 1:12 on Sun.
Mon Off--so far it's easy.
Tues.  Gallop 2.25 miles :17s--horse has been trained to this (to date).  Can be done with some risks--what if horse pulled a little muscle in the breeze?
Wed:  This is the problem day.  Do we do another 2.25 miles. That seems like an awful lot to be doing day before breezing 6f in 1:12s. I personally prefer to do mile at the most in about :18s or :19s day before breeze.
Thurs. 6f in 1:12.

Now--here's the problem.  If we repeat the above about 8 times with the idea of continuing to repeat this cycle even throwing in races on the 6f days, the 2.25 mile gallop starts to be a problem.  Why?  Because:
1. 2.25 miles in :17 is a very healthy fairly strenuous gallop for which the horse needs to be conditioned to that work before doing it or else the injury risk goes up dramatically, and
2.  In one month we've only done 7 or 8 of these 2.25 mile gallop--i.e. our horse is no longer well conditioned to the 2.5 mile gallop.  3 out of ever 4 days he's doing a mile or less, and so the 2.25 mile gallop becomes more and more of an injury risk as we go particularly since we're doing it 2 days after a hard breeze or race.

And, if the 6f day is a race instead--we're likely to postpone the 2.25 mile gallop for a few more days, and we then might have one 2.25 mile gallop/week.

The point--again--of all this--I always had trouble with the slow gallop days.  I finally abandoned the Ivers schematic because I was unable to resolve this problem.  I think I've solved it now.  Next post.