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make best use of the hills); that’d take a couple weeks. Then I’d add in their first canter interval. I jog a mile, then gallop 3/4ths, pull up to a jog, jog down the hill (a short, l/8th mile stretch on the track). After the horse is able to do his first interval, add in another, and another. He needs to be able to do three interval gallops (separated by a one or two minute trot, down the slope, for recovery) without getting tired.
After three or four weeks of that, I’ll turn around (clockwise on the track) and start galloping two miles steady. After a few weeks of that, if the horse is handling it, I start adding in speed work, starting with an easy two-minute lick (two-minute mile, 30 miles per hour) over a half-mile, working once a week, a little farther each time, until the horse is working a mile.
I’ve learned how to use the Coosaw track to my advantage, by trial and error. Each track is different. That is what works for me.
S.So after you’ve got your
•horse fit, now what?
re do you like to aim for your first race of the year ?
A .Depends on the horse, of
•course, but I love to use the point-to-point circuit. For a young horse, there’s nothing better for education, and to find out for sure if the horse has what it takes to compete at the sanctioned level. I like to run a horse on the flat, at a point-to-point, for their first start, then maybe a hurdle race if he’s never run before.
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