I want to thank both Lois and Al for their comments and help. I will spend
more time waiting for races Al, and the boots seem to help in the round
pen Lois. I worked all three last week and each one did a little more
than I thought so things are looking up. I left Ag at the track and he
has had several good long gallops this week. We worked him against two
decent sort of horses today for 6 furlongs and he beat the second place
horse a little more than a length and the third place horse was atleast
two good lengths back according to the girl who was on the third place.
horse. So Roger II is very happy. We will run him Sunday at Lonestar
Brat will work tomorrow and I will try to get him in a Non Winners of two
in a lifetime for $10,000 claimers "Texas Breds" going 6. He has really start to
feel like a race horse. Spingoli, has a little filling in is near fore
so I am going to give him a little rest. He runs hard (pounding the ground)
and I have been afraid about him he also trys so hard to work. Thanks again
and it is nice to see comments please keep them coming.

>I seem to be having more feet problems. They clip their heels when they
>first started before they got use to pen. A solid pen would be better
>than wire so that I would have their full attention. Anything smaller
>than 70 feet would be too small and anything larger would run the trainer
>in really good shape. They reached a preconditioning level really quick
>and then things slowed down. They are sounder in the legs, their knees
>were a concern, but I have not had ANY problems with anything other than
>their feet. It is hard to reach the fully conditioned state even with
>fair works every ten days at a mile track. I feel there is a real need
>for atleast one strong gallop a week and a work every 7 to 10 days to
>reach racing condition. I just have not been able to get there in the round pen alone. I have
>limited the boys to one mile, two miles, and Ag would get some three miles
>in the round pen. Maybe longer works would work. I plan to get more
>track time in I have help at Paradise and with luck we will race again
>in two weeks all the boys are getting there. All suggestions are welcome