Confused About Races

[Rendezvous]

Hey y'all I have a question for the staffers or any experienced members (basically the entire site population x'D)

Say I have my colt Muggathugga running for January. I run him Weeks 1 and 2, give him Week 3 off and then run him Week 4. Is this considered over-racing? I know for sure that running them consecutively three weeks in a row results in a DQ, but I never knew that running them consecutively for 2 weeks and then giving them a week off results in them getting placed lower. 

Soooo what I'm basically saying is I'm confused help i've fallen and i can't get u and I need help x'D

[Kenren]

In general three races in one month is considered over-racing, though it's not concrete enough to automatically place them at the bottom in every race it happens in the way racing three times in a row will. It's basically safer to try and space things out a little. Two times a month is a good rule of thumb.

[Ripley]

To me, if the races were spaced out as you said, Ren, it's not that big of a deal. As long as the horse is three+. I have a two race maximum for juveniles. However, in the case of older horses, if you race them 3 times in one month, I recommend giving the first 2 weeks off of the next month to recover. That's just how I typically do things myself and I've never been penalized for racing 3 weeks out of of a month with a resting week in between.