Author Topic: Old School  (Read 4859 times)

0 Members and 2 Guests are viewing this topic.

Meadow Ford

  • Stakes Horse
  • *****
  • Posts: 943
Re: Old School
« Reply #15 on: September 19, 2023, 11:35:18 AM »
Shadows rolls and super high heads with bow-tight overchecks are becoming a thing of the past.
IMHO
It makes a difference who is driving,
Trainers that drove(the old days)wanted more control and safety.
Thus the shadow rolls, high heads, Quit Davis bits, double twisted wire driving bits, and short hobbles.
Put up a catch driver and take all that stuff off, and leave the hand holds set for the jog cart.
Saftey be damed!
There is a want to be catch driver at every table at every track kitchen.
I am just an old horse trainer still going around in circles. Sometimes Fast. Sometimes Half-Fast.

Fuguzzi

  • Elite
  • ******
  • Posts: 3104
Re: Old School
« Reply #16 on: September 19, 2023, 02:13:28 PM »
IMHO
It makes a difference who is driving,
Trainers that drove(the old days)wanted more control and safety.
Thus the shadow rolls, high heads, Quit Davis bits, double twisted wire driving bits, and short hobbles.
Put up a catch driver and take all that stuff off, and leave the hand holds set for the jog cart.
Saftey be damed!
There is a want to be catch driver at every table at every track kitchen.
Great post Meadow Ford - can always rely on you to bring forth the perspective and experience of a real horseman. Your genuineness permeates every word.

 

shout out

Refresh History
  • Sound off !
  • Trigger: Seen some scary shit close up.  Real healthy people, smart, wealthy, so much hate and anger, visceral, saw their brains get chewed right through, another had no fight after a minor surgery.  Hate is a serious problem, that life gives an abundance of opportunities for.  No one is having fun in the cemetary or in an urn!  ;D
    March 24, 2026, 10:54:15 PM
  • Trigger: Finally GOAT insulting me in a good, deep and propper plopper way...proud of you! GOAT!  ;D
    March 24, 2026, 08:07:13 PM
  • Trigger: Chris Page, genius, no backstretch move loses by nose  ngc3
    March 24, 2026, 07:35:45 PM
  • Ignorance Is Bliss: [link]
    March 24, 2026, 07:25:35 PM
  • Trigger: Miami Valley, race 11 - 2 Brigade, Burke horse, second 2026 race after Hoosier monster...don't miss it now!  ;D
    March 24, 2026, 07:22:11 PM
  • Trigger: LUCPARK, too under the wheather to make a Mike P. show appearance.  New word thanks to you, not weather, or whether, wheather - it's a Webster Plop wiener!  tmbz1
    March 24, 2026, 06:42:39 PM
  • Trigger: Next time your dick don't work Gonorrea Knight, it's because you're an anonymous coward faggot  ;D
    March 24, 2026, 04:37:56 PM
  • Trigger: Fuck face gonorrhea knight, you've been here a year, 4 fucking post troll twat...stay irrelvant and avoid sleepless nights  ngc3
    March 24, 2026, 04:32:52 PM
SimplePortal 2.3.7 © 2008-2026, SimplePortal