Exiting Tuesday morning!!

Morning all, I'm not sure where to start!! Suppose I'll have to start from the beginning. so much to say today! Got out of bed at 3.05 after 8 hours sleep....!! I love sleeping!! I got ready for work and left the house at 3.20 when Ben rings me, he rings everyday at 3.20! I jump on my bike and off I go! I have a chat with Ben whilst I'm cycling to work! It was very cold and windy this morning but soon warmed up mucking out, I mucked out three this morning before I went over to the tower. Tony and Geoff had already gone. But I walked over towards the tower with paddy, he was riding black caviar. She's such a nice mare, lovely looking and so chilled out! When I got to the tower tony and Geoff were there talking about the horses working this morning, I joined in and Geoff was ever so kind, he was explaining what was happening ect. Geoff is peter moodys racing manager! He's got a very important job and it's stressful at times I'd say They gave me a pair of binoculars and a stop watch. I think there was around 40 horses working this morning and 20 horses going in the trails! The trails starts at 7.30. the rest were either doing slow work or going off the ponies. It's really difficult to understand what work they do at the beginning. Because there's so many different tracks, eg A sand, visco, grass, the lead. And on each one there's signs with different distances, I couldn't keep up. Some were Woking on the visco and others on the grass. You really needed eyes on the back of your head, horses everywhere and they needed to time every pair from certain distances. Eg, they canter to the 1200 meters then they quicken from the 800 meters to the 400 and then from the 200 few quicken for home...!! I think that's right, it's going to take me a while to understand it and to be able to time them. I did clocks few with them. Each pair or rider goes to see tony before going out and when they have finished they will see tony before going on the sand to trot down ( cool down) Luke and Linda worked together, jake and Daniel worked together, they were the jockeys that were in today. But there were others working too eg Emma, Jo, Dave, cooper, John Marie. They had a few reports coming back that some pulled up short, lame or few didn't go so well. Then tony would 'Walkie talkie' Tom back at the stables telling him to get the vet to scope or trot them up for the vet that comes everyday at 8.30!! Geoff wrote the times down for every horse, and they are all kept on record. Few jockeys got told off for going to quick or too slow. They must have is bang on right. They have a beeper on their hats that beep every second so they can count how long it takes them to do their distance!! Im so so glad I've won this scholarship and had the chance to come over to such a great team, and such a successful team. It's so powerful. I can see how and why they get the results they do. Everything is done to the T!! Geoff and I got talking about his role, he does all the entries and deals with all the non runners. Example today, we had a horse that was suppose to run today but when he came out for a trot he wasn't 100% sound, so he had to be scratched before 7.30. He done that there and then on his I pad. If they're not scratched before 7.30 and they don't run they need a vet certificate ! He then showed me his work sheet for today! The has an A4 sheet for everyday with times on it when he needs to do things. By 11am he had to write emails to all the owners from yesterdays runners, a report on how they ran. Why it didn't win and where they are planning of going next. Or if it won what's the next plan! He has to email all the owners of the horses that's running that day to say what the plans are on how they think they will run. Then every Tuesday he has to email all the owners to explain what the thoughts are on all their horses and how they worked and how the trials went. It sounds busy enough to me already! He has a few horses in training with moody! We got talking about the sales and I'm really exited about going to the sales with him on Friday. Very kind of him to offer to take me. I can't wait. He's selling one of his mares. I've got three pictures of black caviar and I wanted Pete and Luke to them signed today, but Peter wasn't there and Luke hadn't finished riding by the time I left. So I've left them in the office so they can sign them before they all disappear to England. At 7am I had a phone call off Peter the driver, he was 10 min away from the yard and he was picking me up. I had to run from the tower down to the yard where he was waiting for me with two horses on the back. We had too drive 2 hours to pick another horse up from a pre training yard and then drive another 45 min to the water farm. ( what an amazin place that was) Willow old equicentre......Peter Clarke is his name. Home of the original hydrotherapy equiciser. Rehabilitation and pre conditioning of race horses. Specialising in tendon and leg injuries. You must go on my face book to check the pics and the video out. It's a horse walker thats in water. The water goes above their shoulder and they walk around But they change direction so they walk against the current. I couldn't stop watching it. They start off being on there 20 min and then they work up to being on there 45 min. Peter was telling me he had a horse win a group one race with out galloping it and just used the water walker. I think that's amazing ! We dropped three off there and picked three up and took them back to caulfield ! The horses that goes up there they need treatment but they can still maintain their fitness. After they finish waking they go into a little paddock for the day just so they can walk around. Not big enough for them to gallop, it's time for them to chill out too. Peter Clark was the first man to build one! It's natural water from the stream and they change the water every 2-3 months but they do use chlorine. We had a good trip up and back with Peter the drive. ( so many peters it's confusing ) We got back to the hard around 1 pm. Great day!! Hope you like;-)