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Originally Posted by Dave Schwartz
Then, winter 2019 came. As has been the case for a number of years, many of the systems go dormant from just before Thanksgiving to about the last week in January.
My belief is that trainer patterns change because the big boys simply take the holiday season off and let their assistants do most of the work. They also rest their horses.
They go back to work seriously just after New Years but it takes 3 weeks or so for things to get back to normal.
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I don't think things like this are expounded on enough. What works from a handicapping perspective in the spring usually won't hold up in the fall/winter meets. Objectives and intent of trainers in those later meets are often way different than in the spring