scaffidi can't drive wrote:Dogs and Trots are completly different - and you're talking about dogs having 2-3 starts a week every week for 6 months...
As for the Trots - look at a horse called Amazing Albert - 9 starts in January and the last of them was a 2nd in a M0 at Moonee Valley - so it can be done and the horses have to be 100% fit - if they are not the vets would pick it up during their warm up and scratch them before they run - so really I think they are 100% fit - but maybe a little flat from trying to back up day in day out, they are just like Humans and get tired also.
VETS deem a horse fit enough to run + to oversee that it is about 100% uninjured.
VETS can not tell if the horse is feeling the affects of backing up.
Your last comment sums up what Ive been trying to say
" but maybe a little flat from trying to back up day in day out."
100% FIT perhaps
I should have worded what Ive said as I did in the past like this
IS THE HORSE AT 100% PEAK CAPACITY AFTER BACKING UP[thats a question I asked before]
I should have used capacity not fitness
