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Originally Posted by Whosonfirst
As usual Ruffian, great insight. I had an old track acquaintance who spent a lot of time at CT getting to know trainers' habits about workouts. There was one well known trainer there, who seldom showed normal workouts but chose to gallop his horses for rather long distances to prepare for routes. When he showed a 4f workout it was usually very slow. My friend taught me to ignore some of these slow workouts.
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Thank you Whosonfirst.
I cut my teeth during high school at CT. and Shenandoah Downs next door. It is where I first learned about distance differences as each ran races, especially short sprints, about a furlong longer. Man, those were the days.
Thanks again for the compliment.
