Mon. Misc.

A little raw out there on the 70 acre hay field today.  RR Stable Q of the moment--rented the hay field for 4 months.  We're into the 10th day already.  Time flying.  What can we do with these horses over 4 months of winter time?  Preston Burch's book on his two years olds indicates something to effect--bad weather to 1/24 the date on which Burch commences 1f breezes. 

We'd like to get on and stay on Burch's schedule although we broke in late Oct. instead of June, will likely be another month before we're open galloping, and we've got youngsters by themselves out in space instead of in company at a race track with a light pro-rider on board.

Our compensation is our riderless work with the cut hay field a tremendous opportunity for that kind of training (see below).  We're doing fast work already, although riderless, and this, at some point will on the training graph allow the Burch and RR stable arrows to meet.  Our horses are behind on their work under tack, though we expect soon, might be right along Burch on basic fitness.

We lost a little time in transition to the hayfield as this required great care under tack to keep the steeds from panicking.   As of the 10th day out here they're pretty much under control, knock on wood, and we were doing the horse's version of trotting on Sat., which mean they start to trot and immediately fix a point at which they stop trotting.  We'll get 'em out that this week, and the big training leap will be getting them into open trot.

Training
Fri. 12/7: Walking under tack only.  Rider still too uncomfortable with them to trot. #7 bucks.
Sat: 12/8:  Best riderless work to date.  Horses ran several near full speed bursts although to me they looked ordinary instead of impressive.  Think this is due to limited speed work to date.  They should get stronger and faster now quickly. Both horses were ridden 10 min. under tack out in the open and did some limited trotting.
Sun: 12/9: Off