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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
I strongly disagree. If a horse runs a big race, he will be way less likely to repeat that race if he comes back too soon. You think a horse is more likely to repeat a big effort if he's brought back in 2 weeks? If that were the case, then horses would just keep running every two weeks. Horses would be running 26 times a year.
Any good trainer will tell you that if a horse runs a big race, the horse will be more likely to repeat that effort if he is given plenty of time(at least 4 weeks). All the best trainers will tell you that. They've all learned it through experience. I learned it very quickly through handicapping. It was one of the first things that I noticed back in the mid-1980s when I first started going to the track. I noticed that really good horses would often times regress badly if they came back too soon.
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Rupert, this is the impression I was under, and that's why I created this thread. I am trying to keep an open mind, learn from others experience, but as you just wrote, 2 weeks back off a top being better than 4 to 6 weeks just doesn't make logical sense.