LottaKash
08-20-2008, 02:28 AM
This evening, while watching the Olympics, the Women's 400M race was being run.....Sanya Richards, running for the USA, was in the next to last outside lane..... She busted out of the starting blocks like a bolt of lightining, and was in a big command, until they hit the last straightaway to the wire, and it was about mid-way down the lane, when I saw a phenomenon that occurs quite frequently, at the hoss races......She began to shorten her stride, and the field went zooming bye.......
How often we see this in Harness Racing, in fact in all racing, it seems she was so excited about winning, as she was the favorite to do so, that she just did not pace herself well, and raced the early portion of the race, out of her skin....And, she paid dearly for her impatience, no medal here.....
Since, this was the Olympics, one would assume, that these gals were the cream of the World's Crop, and she came up lame (Bounce), as she admitted that her hamstring cramped up, thus the shortening of stride and a terrible loss.........
If the Harness equivalent are the Free-for-Allers, than her race, might be likened to a 25 sec 1st-1/4 and a 51-or 52 second half, and after that most horses, even the very good ones, might get the cramps too.......
Has this ever happened to your hoss.......haha.........:D :D :D :D :D :D
well, just an observation.......
best,
How often we see this in Harness Racing, in fact in all racing, it seems she was so excited about winning, as she was the favorite to do so, that she just did not pace herself well, and raced the early portion of the race, out of her skin....And, she paid dearly for her impatience, no medal here.....
Since, this was the Olympics, one would assume, that these gals were the cream of the World's Crop, and she came up lame (Bounce), as she admitted that her hamstring cramped up, thus the shortening of stride and a terrible loss.........
If the Harness equivalent are the Free-for-Allers, than her race, might be likened to a 25 sec 1st-1/4 and a 51-or 52 second half, and after that most horses, even the very good ones, might get the cramps too.......
Has this ever happened to your hoss.......haha.........:D :D :D :D :D :D
well, just an observation.......
best,