Street Sense jogs day after Derby

[GenuineRisk]

Does the horse ever get tired?

http://tcm.bloodhorse.com/viewstory.asp?id=38814

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Does the horse ever get tired?

http://tcm.bloodhorse.com/viewstory.asp?id=38814

I saw that, Carl had him out for a mile jog....business as usual, he doesn't alter his training a bit, love the guy!

[Scav]

It is extremely intelligent, he treats horses like humans and just that hour alone helps with the soreness of any type of effort.

Originally Posted by Scav

It is extremely intelligent, he treats horses like humans and just that hour alone helps with the soreness of any type of effort.

Bang. Totally agree.

You get a little more blood flowing back to those muscles for quicker repair. There is a lot of muscle damage and repair that must take place after any effort like that. Since SS is not hurt, it is the perfect thing to do as far as what I know about humans. Its good to take a walk the day after a race, especially a longer one. I would always do this after a 10k or up.

[ALostTexan]

I think that in the year of the younger and new trainers in the Derby, a few of them could learn a lessor or two from Carl N...

ALostTexan

[The Bid]

He treats them like trotters

[ALostTexan]

So true. Standardbreds are amazing. They warm up by going like a mile, and then on their major stakes days, they have qualifying heats to determine the finals.

I was at the Little Brown Jug last year, and it looked like the winner could have went a couple more miles without skipping a beat...

ALostTexan

[Pedigree Ann]

Before the Civil War in the US, the vast majority of Thoroughbred races were raced in heats of 4 miles, best two out of three. The famous match between American Eclipse and Henry that brought 50,000 people to a field on Long Island (more people than lived in New York City at the time, I believe), the legendary races between Lexington and Lecomte, all 4 mile heats.

One noted race had three winners from three heats, so they went a fourth, which another horse won. So they ran another heat, which went to a previous heat-winner, a mare called Maria, who became famous as '20-mile Maria'. Andy Jackson tried for years to find a horse who could beat her but never did. Of course, horses didn't start running in these 4-milers until they were 4 or older - youngsters ran in 8f heats.

'Dash' racing (the winner determined by a single heat) gradually took over in the 1860s and 1870s - the Travers was one of the first important 'dashes', at 1 3/4 miles. Yet all the 'dash' winners, and all modern TBs, were descended from those 4-mile heat runners.