The typical day for a horse trainer focuses on spending up to 14 hours with their horses. They will start by looking over the horses, exercising the horses, having the veterinarian look at the horses, and then getting ready for the races. Learn how horse trainers will feed and calm their horses after the races are over with information from a former professional jockey in this free video on horse training.
The average day of a trainer, of course, is up to the trainer. But most of 'em, they basically eat, breathe and sleep with their horses. They're there first thing in the morning. They go over their horses with a fine tooth comb. They plan their training schedule for the day. Every horse, prior to training, they're bandages get pulled, their temperature gets taken, their grooms get them prepared for their exercise for the day. And trainers have to be a big part of all this. So, their morning can start anywhere from four or five in the morning, a.m. They're there before the racetrack opens getting their horses ready to train. Training usually ends at around ten a.m. At that point, they're generally working with their horses with their blacksmiths, or any veterinarian care that they might be doing. They're also likely on the phone with the owners, reporting in, letting the owners know how their horses trained that day or what up-and-coming races might be coming. And this is also the time when the horses are entered into the scheduled racing. Horse entries are generally forty-eight to seventy-two hours before the actual race day. So all this is done, it's all mapped out and scheduled out way in advance. And this is what....this is a part of the trainers day. By that time, it's pretty much a full day at work, but if they have horses to run that day, now they're likely running home, showering, getting cleaned up. A lot of trainers like to dress up for the races. It's always a big part of racing and, kind of, historically, that's what you do is you dress up and you go to the races. And, there the trainers are saddling their horses. They're catering to their owners, while, also, they have to maintain what's going on in the barn. Saddling the horses, dealing with the jockeys. When the races are over, it's feed time. It's a calming part of the day. So, trainers can spend, literally, easily fourteen hours a day with their horses. And that's a seven day a week job. So there's kind of an idea of a day of a trainer.
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