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Keep the horse happy. This is probably the most important part of training that is most overlooked. • No more than three days in a row of gallops. A rest day and a day in the ring doing basic dressage should be a part of the routine, as should long trail rides at a walk and trot only. • After the horse is “fit,” one or two speed gallops at the twominute lick speed are in order. (A “two-minute lick” is a mile completed in exactly two minutes.)
• A sample routine is 60 days of hacking, beginning in late November, for a targeted first race in March. Late January begins more strenuous training, to include two-minute lick workouts.
• Quality hay and quality feed are imperative. I feed Purina Ultium and Purina Race Ready. • “Pay the preacher” is the best advice a racetracker once gave me. Pray to the Almighty and find all of the four-leaf clovers that you can.
— Charles Burke, ownertrainer-rider
of1987 National Steeplechase Association Timber
Horse of the Year, Jaughs.
• Fear a first-time starter, I like to jog a horse a full 30 days to put a good bottom on their base of fitness. I get them up to a half-hour of trot work.
At the end of 30 days, I alternate galloping 1 1/2 miles with
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