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Originally Posted by biggestal99
that is exactly what our trainer when she put our horse (often) in an inappropriate spot. our horse was a turfer and despised getting dirt in her face. so the trainer devised a strategy of turning a deep closing turfer into a speedball on the dirt with very mediocre results. we switched trainer, we still had trouble getting in races but at least that was the end of her speedball days.
Allan
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The other tricky thing is that sometimes there are confounding factors.
If you change more than one thing in a race (distance, surface, equipment, track condition, class level, 1 or 2 turns, running style, training style etc..) you can't always be sure what it was that helped or hurt. And this is all going on while he's developing or having minor issues. Sometimes you can run a horse 5-10 times and still not be exactly sure what he wants.
When I add my 2 cents to a situation I always recommend that we only change only thing at a time. That way we can be more confident we actually learned something. But who listens to me? I've just been buried in PPs for almost 50 years
