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Re: [RC] GSFTR - rides2farYou are right about the training. > Truman let meknow that I and the horse were ready. Race day had 500 miles on the horse at the end of hte ride in the January to May period of time ofthat year. Long> slow distance was most of it, but also speed work, tempo work and hill > work for strength. Keith, Check out my record under Angela McGhee. See a horse named Merlyn? I came in 3rd with him in our first race (raced the 1st & 2nd place horses in),. 2nd in our 2nd race (out recovered 2 ROC winners there) and 1st & BC in the third. I had him *really* in shape...or as in shape as you can get a horse in 5 months or so. He didn't vet in in his 4th race. I'd done a great job on his muscles & aerobic systems, but 5 months doesn't train bone & tendon. When I started to tell you about this I thought, "I wish someone had been rude enough to warn me I shouldn't do that"...then I remembered at the finish line of that first race, Wesley Crowe said, "Good job, you shouldn't have done it, but good job". That was the nicest warning I guess any really nice people dared give. Of course I'd read it takes 2 years to get all a horse's systems ready to race, but nobody *really* does that do they?? There were years when I "beat" Steve Rojek while he trotted slowly down the trail on a horse named "Finally". I thought I finally had a horse faster than Steve's...until he put that 2 year base on that horse then off he went...and he lasted a long long time. It takes very brave people who really want to save you from yourself to warn you to slow down. I"m not that brave so I just watch people mess up and cause themselves a great deal of grief and feel bad about it. You may be one of the lucky ones that got by with it but that does not make it any less noble to me that someone tried to keep someone else from messing up their good horse. I told this story on here once before and the recipient resented the comparison ignored the warning and their horse broke down not much later. My conscience was clear but it kinda made me think it's a waste of time to warn anyone. We may all have to mess up one good horse before we think the rules of nature apply to us too. Angie =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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