Originally Posted by
Danno
We used to race them twice a day four days in a row on the east coast show circuit years ago, just to educate them!
I raced a horse ( Caridance) twice in the one night at Taree in the mid eighties...he had his legs taken turning for home in the first one and backed up an hour and a half later and won.
a thrteen year old going around 4 days in a row is not a good look, but I believe in letting the horse show you....if you keep backing him up when he's telling you not to, then your a goose, I remember in those days a bloke around here had an 11 year old pacer on a hard mark, he raced him four days in a row, the horse got better with every run and won on the fourth night.
Let the horse show you and change tack if he/she tells you your on the wrong track, there is no set criteria that suits all horses.
Cheers,
Dan