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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
Interestingly enough, Lukas who trains horses very hard by modern standards (rarely backs off) is demonized because of this. Yet we are quite often told that we are too easy on our horses.
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Trains but doesn't condition. The long slow gallops are the conditioning; the speed work is the training. Lukas depended on the natural talents of his runners (and he could pick out real athletes) to carry them over a distance.