A friend on another board wrote about a situation she had with a horse she was training (and owned). Horse was jumping out of its skin but the racing secretary hadn't yet written a race that fit him. Finally he writes not one but two, on a successive Saturday and Sunday. So she entered horse in both. Horse won the Saturday race, so the office person asks her - "you're going to scratch for tomorrow, of course?" "Hell, no!" says friend, runs him back and wins again. When a horse is FULLY FIT, it can run races close together. Trouble is, most 'elite level' stakes never get fully fit because they don't race often enough - overtrained and under-raced. Frustrating for the highly competitive, high-strung type of horses, too. Then the trainer tranqs it for works, when all it really wants is a chance to get out there and mix it up.
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01-17-2007, 03:00 PM
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