Racing Young Birds

[Okitsme]

Hi Guys,

 

Will I be able to race young birds weaned this week, this year? Thought maybe I would get in 2 or 3 races. Being a bit optimistic?? :X :X :X

[Guest]

You're cutting it fine trying to catch the early races, our young bird season kicks off in approximately 7 weeks. Having said that, we start with two races at approx. 78 miles, then two at approx. 100 miles. So if your organization runs a similar program, you could possibly catch the last 100 miler. You would need to be pushing them and I think it may be too tight, so if you can catch a few short races at the end of the season it may be a safer bet for you!

[Okitsme]

I was hoping to just get maybe just 2 or three races in this year to sort the weak birds out from the stronger ones. What training would anyone suggest on Natural system to get the birds into gear for maybe the last three races?

[Wiley]

See okitsme, it will be hard to sort out the weak from the strong as the way it sounds the birds wont be competing the full programme, really your young bird combine or national would do this,but your only having 3 races it sounds like, so will be very hard and to sort out the week from the strong in your case would involve alot of jumping, and personally i dont know how many your intending to breed, i think could end up in heartbrake if not done properly. What id personally do i would train the birds right up and give the birds all the comeback races upto 216 miles in my federation case, so the would have first race 114 miles newark, then Wetherby which is 177, then Scotch Corner 216, if the birds came well from this distance i would retain them and keep them to build up an old bird team, the ones that didnt do so well would then go to the young bird combine to sort out the weak and the strong. I train my ybs in stages and everyone is different