NO RECENT WORKS

Fires when the horse has been off more than 15 days and no workout date falls within the last 30 days. A horse returning from a meaningful break without a recorded workout may be coming off a cold barn — uncranked, underworked, or potentially unsound. The absence of a workout is especially concerning for horses returning from layoffs of 30 or more days, where conditioning exercises are a minimum standard of preparedness. Trainers who do not work horses before races generally produce worse results than those who do.