Dummies Question - 3 Furlong Workouts

[Danzig]

i think there are different reasons for a short work like that.
one can be with a horse either just starting training, or a horse returning to training after a layoff. trainers don't typically look for a timed work of more than 3 f right away.
another can be if they have a horse that they're trying to take the edge off.
another can be if they're trying to put some speed into a horse. guess it just depends on what you see in their overall work pattern, and compare it to the race conditions you're capping for.

[Vegaskid]

I enjoy tracking work out patterns, but I pay no attention to 3f times... they rarely give me what I am looking for...

[docicu3]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i think there are different reasons for a short work like that.
one can be with a horse either just starting training, or a horse returning to training after a layoff. trainers don't typically look for a timed work of more than 3 f right away.
another can be if they have a horse that they're trying to take the edge off.
another can be if they're trying to put some speed into a horse. guess it just depends on what you see in their overall work pattern, and compare it to the race conditions you're capping for.

Deb

Some time ago Kirin was on Steve's show discussing what 2 year old pattern of work outs is an alert worth paying attention to?

He responded that a 3F blow out a few days before a first time starters initial race was an indicator "he meant business". Of course this could have been last year, five years ago or longer depending on how much my advancing senility was altering my thought process that day.....

Dr.D

[Kasept]

Note too that quoted 3f works frequently are cut-out of a further work of 4f, 5f or even more. Trainers will tell clockers that their horse is working three furlongs but are in fact involved in a longer drill between certain poles.

[Round Pen]

Originally Posted by Kasept

Note too that quoted 3f works frequently are cut-out of a further work of 4f, 5f or even more. Trainers will tell clockers that their horse is working three furlongs but are in fact involved in a longer drill between certain poles.

And to add to that alot not all 3f works out of the gate are actually Just horses that have went a 1/8th of a mile or a 1/4 and that is the time the pull up 3/8's in. We do that quite abit getting horse's ok'd from the gate

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Kasept

Note too that quoted 3f works frequently are cut-out of a further work of 4f, 5f or even more. Trainers will tell clockers that their horse is working three furlongs but are in fact involved in a longer drill between certain poles.

Trainers never lie...

[Kasept]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Trainers never lie...

That's true..

But those thievin' clockers, now that's a different story.

I like to look for 7f or 1m workouts, but I notice that these are quite rare except among the West Coast trainer "colony", a fact I've never quite understood.

[keithting]

I personally like to see a 7 Fur or 1 Mile work into a horse that will race at 6 Fur or 7 Fur

you used to see that alot in the "old days" - not so much anymore

these horses tend to be "fit"