Time Between Shipping/races

Tasha Langley · Post by **Tasha Langley** » 17 years ago

How much time do you guys usually give your horses when you ship them overseas? I dont know if I have enough time to get one more prep into Alone in my Dreams before the Breeder's Cup.

Ara Davies · Post by **Ara Davies** » 17 years ago

If I run Everest in the BC Turf, he'll be shipping over from Europe immediately after week 13 results, if that's any help.

Sarah Chase · Post by **Sarah Chase** » 17 years ago

Tasha Langley wrote: How much time do you guys usually give your horses when you ship them overseas? I dont know if I have enough time to get one more prep into Alone in my Dreams before the Breeder's Cup.

For what it's worth, if she were mine, I'd just work her 6-7fT week 13 or 14.

Tasha Langley · Post by **Tasha Langley** » 17 years ago

Sarah Chase wrote:
Tasha Langley wrote: How much time do you guys usually give your horses when you ship them overseas? I dont know if I have enough time to get one more prep into Alone in my Dreams before the Breeder's Cup.
For what it's worth, if she were mine, I'd just work her 6-7fT week 13 or 14.

VERY good idea that I'd forgotten about.

Katie Grenier · Post by **Katie Grenier** » 17 years ago

From what I've been told by other players is to ship the horse at least 2 weeks prior to the race you are wanting to enter him/her in overseas and the same for after the race and you want to bring him/her back to the states for another race. All due to the toll the shipping takes on the horse for the overseas travel as you may or may not know. Although, shipping to places like Brazil and places that are closer to the states aren't as bad you still want to leave enough time for recovery from the shipping that way the horse can perform as he/she has been, and without the loss of energy from the shipping causing the horse to either possibly be injured (which I do not know the likelyhood of an injury but suspect that it can and has happened to others just as in real life.) or just not perform well at all.

I do agree with Ara in that you want to ship the horse overseas as early as you can. Good Luck

Emily Mitchell · Post by **Emily Mitchell** » 17 years ago

To have your horse at its peak, it's my opinion that you need 3 weeks off between races if you are shipping overseas... or maybe even 4. But, now that we have workouts I'd give 4 off and workout 4f like week 14 for a week 16 race.

Or something. Actually, I think I'll just be giving my BC horses 3 weeks off if I'm shipping overseas.