Tim Ritchey
Tim Ritchey
Timothy F. "Tim" Ritcheyis an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. He is best known as the trainer of Afleet Alex, a 2005 winner of two American Classic Races, the Preakness and Belmont Stakes...
breeze easy few fitness galloping half hours jogging looks maintained racetrack ready starts three turn underneath walking
When we started jogging him, he was ready to turn around then, so we had to go real easy with him. He didn't want to come off the racetrack a few times. He had been walking for two and half to three hours a day, and then we started to jog him, but I'll know more as to how much fitness he's maintained once he starts galloping on his own, and once we get a breeze underneath him. But he looks really good.
kid knows lemonade
Kid Lemonade has enough seasoning; he knows what he's doing.
racing return somewhere
I don't know when and where, but he will return to racing somewhere this year.
easy horse horses laid took
Hes a very laid back and very easy going horse and he took it better than most horses would have,
happiness happy track
He went to the track and jogged a mile, and he was very happy to get out,
alex believe bump formulate overcome plan previous racing
I believe he will overcome this bump in the road. I believe we can formulate a plan that will have Alex back racing at his previous level.
grade ideally race running second
Running in a Grade 1 in his second race is not ideally what you want to do, but Menacing showed me a lot off the first race,
cigar mile run
Right now, we want to run in the Cigar Mile if he is 100 percent,
cart focus routine work
We're not going to put the cart before the horse. We'll nominate him to a lot of things between now and the end of the year, but our focus is getting him back into a routine and then a work schedule.