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training.
“They’re a little rough when they’re yearlings, maybe,” Morris said. “But it was that base training, as babies, that set them up” for future success.
Morris said he takes a full 30 days for “ground training” — longeing, long-lining and backing. Once started, Kinross horses are mature enough, at age 2plus, to move right into more intense training — long canters, testing trail rides. More developed horses, Morris said, can be aimed for racing on the flat track, while slower maturing types can be kept on the farm for later steeplechase training.
Flat track help set
up jumpers
Eclipse Award-winning trainer Bruce Miller said that the flat track, though sometimes too tough on fragile young horses, can actually help in later training. The track, he said, typically produces physically developed horses that “have seen it all,” something important to a ‘chase trainer taking on a horse later in his competitive life.
“If a horse can handle that hard training on the flat, it makes them really tough,” Miller said. If a horse spends time on the flat track and then returns to farm training more typical of steeplechase operations, he said, “he has seen it all. It makes them quieter, because they’ve been on the track with all that activity. Then you put them back on the farm, and they’re usually pretty quiet.”
Miller said that for retrainSee
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