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.
anticipate fit hours keeping muscle percent point problems putting stress tone walking
I don't anticipate any more problems because it's 99.9 percent healed. He still has a lot of muscle on him. He doesn't have a big belly. That was the point of walking him two hours a day -- keeping him fit and maintaining muscle tone without putting stress on his legs.
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,
jeremy start
I told Jeremy to start him off real easy,
move normally
You can't make that big move when you normally make it, because you won't get to the finish.
closer couple figuring ideal matter prep races ready weekend weeks
There are a couple of races that weekend for us to look at, ... If we can get a prep in, I wouldn't want it to be any closer than two weeks before the Breeders' Cup. The 14th or the 15th would be an ideal scenario. It's just a matter of figuring out if he's ready to do it, and, if so, what race we want to go in.
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.