If the horse gets confidence..........

[Trotter]

I've been looking at the 3.30 at Ayr tomorrow and the favourite is The Nifty Fox who won last time out after a long losing spell of 37 races over 3 years The Spotlight comment in the Post says .........'doesn´t find it easy to get his head in front but remains well handicapped on old form, stays 6f and perhaps that win has given his confidence a boost' There's not a great deal of evidence that he does stay 6 furlongs but the thing that got my attention was not that but the bit about his confidence being given a boost by winning LTO Is that just a load of old codswallop ? Do horses have 'confidence issues' ?............do they know that they've won a race ? Any horsey people want to try and persuade me that horses gain confidence from winning a race ? I suspect it's a load of old tosh

[Aidymac]

Re: If the horse gets confidence.......... I think it is rubbish. A horse hasn't a clue if it has won a race imo. It knows it has a man on top, and knows it has to speed up when asked to, and thinks "fekk it, why are you hitting me you beetch" when it gets a whip... A horse that wins and then maybe goes on a winning run is pure and simply the trainer getting the horse spot on and well handicapped in my opinion, nothing to do with the horse's confidence imo.