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Go Edwin, it’s your Birthday. 🥳🎈 Go Edwin, it’s your Birthday. 🥳🎈
It’s the final weekend at our favorite place. 🫶

Just 3️⃣ days left of #BingSeason.
What does it take to get a clean break? 🏇💨 What does it take to get a clean break? 🏇💨

Teamwork and preparation are key at the starting gate. 🔑 

Assistant starters are tasked with ensuring every horse and rider get into and out of the gate safely and that each gets a fair start. Once the gates pop open and the horse is away and running, the assistant starter’s job is done, for that race anyway.

Sounds easy. Except it’s not. 

Think about this for a second. An average-sized man climbs into this small, cramped space, with a thousand-pound animal that’s keyed-up and ready to run. What could possibly go wrong?

Every effort is made to take the unexpected, the surprise, out of the job. In the mornings, Trainers will bring their horses to the starting gate and the assistant starters will work with them to get them comfortable with being loaded.

“There are 2,000 horses in the book and we keep track of them every day. For every horse that comes through the gate we write a little note on what they do. You can’t treat them all the same. If you do, you’re going to land in some trouble. Like Queen of Pompeii. She’ll get to the gate and she won’t go in unless you open the doors in front of her. You open the doors in front, she’ll walk in. Other than that, she’ll fight you to go in.”

They learn Queen of Pompeii’s quirks in the morning so they don’t have to deal with them in the afternoon.

“You just try to talk to them because they’re creatures of habit. I’ll stop them, pet them. The faster they know what you’re asking of them, the quicker and easier the job’s going to be.”

“You don’t always want to keep a horse pointed all the time either,” Travis notes. “Because then he’s always keen and you don’t want them like that. There are still four or five horses to load so I just kind of let them do what they want. Look around. I don’t point their head right when we get in the gate.” 

Teamwork is the key. Everyone knowing their assignment and working together to get a clean break.

So the next time you’re at the races take particular notice of those guys in the Del Mar teal vests working alongside the horses at the starting gate. It’s a show unto itself and an opportunity to see veteran horsemen at work.
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