Wed. Misc.

Well--what can one say?  We finally get a camera person to film our riderless fast work, and instead of getting a nice vid of the 4 heats we get 15 vids 10 seconds long.  For reasons unknown our good cam corder operator keeps shutting her camera off 10 seconds into each vid -- reminding me of that post in Scientific American that some folks are just challenged when it comes to logical response to specific day to day stimuli.  When you've got a beautiful developing gallop right in the sights of your vid, for what reason on god's green earth would you turn off your camera? I hesitate to ask.

Here's one e.g.--and, does this nicely show the athleticism of our 17-2" hand big fellow?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mhKBgbB36Q

I never asked the young lady why she kept turning off the vids, and instead told her what a great job she did, and that btw she turned off the vid every 10 seconds, and that that must have been because of my highly questionable instructions to her.  Smoothed things over.

At any rate, even though we got good vids, horses failed to cooperate by declining to really motor over the mud that day.  One of these days I'll catch a real run on a vid.

Training:

Since 2/25 when #148 came back into action we'lve done fast riderless work every 2 or 3 days.  #148 getting stronger although to date failing to show that nice ground eating stride of last fall when he was a little smaller.  Will see.  Mr. Nob got back on both horses 3/10.  Good to get back on and looking forward to daily rides.  Would you know it--very next day 30 mph tree swaying northern wind prevents tack work.    Riderless fast work instead WU + 3 x 2f went very fast for both horses.  First day of year with good ground, and then the rain comes in. Weather related problems continue.