Racing later this year could influence which horses will be at their best.
The delay has the potential to completely upend the race, as it disrupts training and racing schedules and gives late-blooming horses a chance to catch up with their peers."Moving the Derby throws everything into chaos," said Jeff Greenhill, a horse trainer in LaGrange, Kentucky.
The field breaks from the gate at the start of the 145th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, May 4, 2019, in Louisville, Kentucky.Gramm expects the race to be run slightly faster overall, as he would expect most horses of that age to improve by about two-fifths of a second between May and September – a potentially decisive increase in a race that usually takes about two minutes to run and is often decided by inches.
For the horses that had been projected to peak in May, however, the delay presents a big problem for trainers, said Greenhill, who is not training a horse for the Derby. Trainers tend to target a particular race, like the Derby and the other races in the Triple Crown, and carefully plan their schedule to build up to it. Now they need to find a way to keep their horses in good form for several more months, without knowing much about the schedule of upcoming races.
The field heads down the backstretch during the 145th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, May 4, 2019, in Louisville, Kentucky.Luckily, horses are better than humans at maintaining their fitness, said Marlin. If trainers back off a bit when the horse is three-quarters of the way to being fit for a race, they can keep them fit with less work over the summer."There's no point in keeping up a full workload between now and September," he said.
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