Re: RC: efficient gaits

[Teddy Lancaster <Teddy@runningbear.com>]

MOST racehorse people are idiots and ruin horses.  Been there, done that....LEARNED
TONS.  All at the same time I was riding long distance...slow at first, then more
speed.  THEN, I read Tom's first "Fit Racehorse" and was in love forever.  It is a
book that makes sense, gives your hard facts and offers a common sense (if any is left
in the world) approach to conditioning.

I quit the racetrack.......

Teddy

"Linda B. Merims" wrote:

> Teddy Lancaster wrote:
> >
> > There should be NO discrepancy between race horses and endurance
> > horses....endurance horses are not trained (and need not be trained) to go at
> > top speed.  BUT, race horses NEED (MUST HAVE) the base that endurance horses get
> > from LSD.  If you add some miles at speed (after a good foundation is laid)
> > through interval work, you will NOT hurt your horse and you WILL improve his
> > capabilities tremendously.
> >
> > Teddy
> >
> > PS: Race horse LSD is GALLOP work!!!!  Not at TOP speed, but a gallop none the
> > less.
>
> For whatever reasons--whether because they don't work or because racehorse
> people tend to be extremely resistant to change--Ivers' ideas as exemplified
> in _The Fit Racehorse_ have never gained more than a toehold in the
> racing industry.  He's actually had more success gaining followers
> in the standardbred world than the thoroughbred world, but even there
> his ideas are controversial.  (Big surprise :-)
>
> Wasn't Tom himself questioning the applicability of interval training, which
> is designed to increase a horse's anaerobic thresholds, to endurance
> conditioning, which is largely aerobic, when he first arrived on Ridecamp
> several years ago?  I lost track--how did that debate ever turn out?
>
> Linda B. Merims
> lbm@ici.net
> Massachusetts, USA
>
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