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General Category => Harness Racing => Topic started by: makingit on November 09, 2020, 08:03:59 PM

Title: Racing A Horse Back After Three (3) Days ?
Post by: makingit on November 09, 2020, 08:03:59 PM: Wondering why a owner and/or trainer would raise a horse again with just 3 days off? I am not that knowledgeable in training to see the plus or minus in the move. Would it be because it is getting near the end of the year and some tracks closing? Any other reasons? Why are most of the horses given off six days before racing again? Is this done a lot and I just miss it? Any thoughts?
Title: Re: Racing A Horse Back After Three (3) Days ?
Post by: FirstUpFrom8Hole on November 09, 2020, 08:23:16 PM: Bills are due.

Some horses are fine after a 3 day rest. There used to be 3 heats in the Little Brown Jug.
Title: Re: Racing A Horse Back After Three (3) Days ?
Post by: makingit on November 09, 2020, 08:25:51 PM: Thanks!
Title: Re: Racing A Horse Back After Three (3) Days ?
Post by: PIGLAND on November 09, 2020, 08:35:29 PM: harness horses can race almost every day
Title: Re: Racing A Horse Back After Three (3) Days ?
Post by: Rabbi Of Racing on November 09, 2020, 08:35:52 PM: keeps them tight tmbz1
Title: Re: Racing A Horse Back After Three (3) Days ?
Post by: trottingstud on November 09, 2020, 08:58:55 PM: my trainer once talked me into racing a stake race at yonkers and come back the next day for a nyss at monticello. finished 3rd at yonkers and won at monti. turned horse out overnight and jugged her with fluids. fortunately horse was fine after the double header. thought he was crazy.
Title: Re: Racing A Horse Back After Three (3) Days ?
Post by: makingit on November 09, 2020, 09:13:02 PM: Trottingstud,
Cool story. Need more of these true real stories from people that actually have been there and done it !
Thanks
Title: Re: Racing A Horse Back After Three (3) Days ?
Post by: FirstUpFrom8Hole on November 09, 2020, 10:20:33 PM: A pacer back in the 80's raced and win in the Invite at Scioto on a Saturday night, raced at a local fair on monday and set a track record, came back at same fair 2 days later on wed and beat the record he had just set, then win the invite again on the following Saturday. 4 races in 7 days. All wins. 100% true story.
Title: Re: Racing A Horse Back After Three (3) Days ?
Post by: makingit on November 10, 2020, 07:30:30 AM: Amazing. Tough horses ! Good story.
Title: Re: Racing A Horse Back After Three (3) Days ?
Post by: Larrylou32 on November 10, 2020, 08:50:52 AM: Quote from: Rabbi Of Racing on November 09, 2020, 08:35:52 PM
keeps them tight tmbz1

I don't think so
Title: Re: Racing A Horse Back After Three (3) Days ?
Post by: jupiter on November 10, 2020, 09:05:44 AM: Roger Hammer has been doing it for years, made a fortune doing it. Till they changed the fair rules. He used to race his good 3yr olds in overnights and then to the fairs.
Title: Re: Racing A Horse Back After Three (3) Days ?
Post by: old guy on November 10, 2020, 09:21:06 AM: Quote from: jupiter on November 10, 2020, 09:05:44 AM
Roger Hammer has been doing it for years, made a fortune doing it. Till they changed the fair rules. He used to race his good 3yr olds in overnights and then to the fairs.

Nicknamed the Roger Hammer rule.