So much for horses needing 4 to 5 weeks rest

[Pedigree Ann]

Originally Posted by moodwalker

In Australia and England they run them every weekend or 14 days when they are on a campaign.

But don't be talking about that in America, those foreign trainers are just wrong.....

Makybe Diva won the Cox Plate at 1 1/4 miles and the Melbourne Cup at 2 miles 9 days apart when she was 7 years old.

And the highest finishing Aussie-based horse Maybe Better (third to the two Japanese runners) in last year's Melbourne Cup had qualified to get in by winning a race the Saturday before the Tuesday of the Cup. That's a 12.5f race THREE DAYS before a 2 mile race. Or course, the Cup was the culmination of the spring carnival for older horses and Maybe Better was spelled afterward.