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Doug Fout is the trainer of 2004 National Steeplechase champion Hirapour; and rider of 1975 champ Life's Illusion. He trains from Coosaw Farm in The Plains.
.You have a lot of horses in Vy •training - young horses just starting out, older horses coming back from a layoff or injury, top-rated horses on the upswing of their careers. How do you train all these different types?
A .I’ve always used a type of
•interval training. I like the intervals (which refers to working the horse at a trot, canter or gallop to increase heart and respiration rates, sustaining the elevated rates for a certain interval, then slowing back to a trot, or walk, for another, shorter, interval for a brief recovery period, then repeating two or three times) for young horses just starting out. It gets them to a level of fitness without wearing on them.
And the older horses, coming off an injury, there’s nothing better. They come fit quick, but you need to be careful about wearing a horse down. The interval training is a way to do that.
Q .Describe an “interval. *
•Say, for a 3-year-old who nos never raced, never been fit previously.
A .OK, it’d take four or five
• months to bring a young horse from no fitness at all to being ready to race. I’d work up to a mile jog (primarily using Coosaw’s one-mile, rolling sand track, which Fout uses both directions, clockwise and counter-clockwise, to
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