Homer Run has won his last two hurdle races for us and
has (annoyingly!) gone up 16lbs in the weights. Due to this, we may now run him over fences next time so he is
busy getting schooled up. The video
below shows his first schooling session over the larger obstacles with amateur
jockey, Miss Alice Mills on board. As
well as a video of him warming up over the hurdles.
He was a bit careful over the larger obstacles to
begin with – which I like – and he soon warmed up to the task. He was foot perfect in fact which shows all
the grid work that he has done in the past has worked. We prepared him for jumping the schooling
fences the week before by doing lots of grid work over wider and higher parallels
and moving the distances so that he had to alter, shorten and lengthen his
stride.
It was a very pleasing morning and we are looking
forward to running him soon.
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