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Training
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Contrarian horses, too, are usually broken to ride as yearlings. “We like to break the early foals in the fall of their yearling year,” Commer said. “But the later foals (those bom in June or July, for instance) can wait until the spring, or if they’re slow to develop they can wait.”
Commer said that his riders give a “basic” course of riding in the fall of the yearling year, working with the horses for about 45 days, teaching walk and trot under saddle, with perhaps some trail riding.
“Then we turn them back out for 60 or 90 days over the winter,” he added. “When we bring them up in the spring (of their 2-year-old year), they get a “refresher’ course for a month or so, then go right on to the track.”
Virginia’s leading owner, Kinross Farm, uses a slightly different breaking routine, according to farm trainer Neil Morris. He said he prefers to break horses in the spring of their 2-year-old year, “after we’ve gotten through the foxhunting season and put the hunters out for the summer,” Morris said.
“We just don’t have time, or room, before that. I don’t like to break them as yearlings. I know most people do, but this is what works for me.”
He, like Valentine, said that Kinross youngsters are muchhandled until they are weaned, then similarly basically left “rough” until brought up for
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