Slow Progress

Horses continue to work riderless speed every other day.  Primarily tack work deemed insufficient to maintain speed.  Tack work was a little spotty when 4 inches of rain dumped upon us 10 days ago.  Fairly consistent the last 10 days.  Reports:

#148 Now trotting and  starting to be under control out in space.  This energetic explosive  dude is going too be a handful in any case though Nob has been handling it to date.

#17  Galloping progress came to screeching halt when horse suddenly refused his left lead.   Continues despite our efforts.  Riderless the horse takes his  left just fine, and  so, it's stubbornness or fear instead of injury.  Hopefully we're without another Alydar style lead problem.  The best effort has been to get the front on the left and then he stays on his right behind, cross firing.  This make galloping left in our tight turn track difficult to impossible.  We're thinking the problem will eventually solve when #17 starts on is left by accident and sees that he's much more comfortable.  Right now under tack the horse is being taken around the track at extended trot with occasional gallop when it suits him.

The Track:  Good Grief.  Mr. Farmer was instructed to blade (level( about 30 yards of undulating ground.  Instead the man went crazy, bladed the entire track including good grief the grass removing all the top soil andd much of the grass, and leaving the dirt portion hard as a rock.  We have a solution to this, and  also an interesting post on the two dams of our horses coming.  We've found a photo of Uruguayan Champ La Signora, dam of #17.