Quote Originally Posted by Toohard View Post
Just been reminded by someone that in some places in world..little brown jug, Hambletonian, etc, 3yos have to go 2, sometimes 3, 1.55 or less mile races in space of couple hours.
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