"Street Sense" Bodes Well for Holistic Training Approach
Carl Nafzger's Training Style Encourages a Clean Holistic Approach for Horse Racing
Jun. 8, 2007 01:15 PM
LOUISVILLE, KY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 06/08/07 -- Three weeks after Carl Nafzger's "Street
Sense" Derby win, all eyes are on his "green" horse, racing's organically
fed dynamo. Calm and collected, "Street Sense" represents a style of
training that is as good for the horse as it is for track and ultimately
for the breeding shed. Nafzger's reputation dates back 17 years to his
first Derby and Breeders Cup wins with "Unbridled" who went on to become a
great stallion as well. Carl's career long commitment to a holistic
nutritional approach to equine health and training also seems to have
reaped extraordinary benefits on the track epitomized by "Street Sense."
Nutritional Science research advances and the increased emphasis on 'drug
free racing' together with the step up in drug testing converge in "Street
Sense" who can finally prove to both the racing and breeding industries
that there are significant benefits. The introduction of extraordinary
natural foods like fungi, something that Nafzger feeds in his stable are
finally getting the health contributing recognition they deserve and
finally have the scientific data to back up claims that have been made
throughout the ages with respect to human consumption.
Mushrooms, lauded as the origin of landmark drugs like Penicillin though
mostly misunderstood in the US, are a major dietary component in countries
like Japan where centuries of practical experience and now significant
studies have revealed an extraordinary range of health benefits. It has
taken nearly two decades for mushrooms to gain a footing in the US with
one-of-a-kind growers like Golden Gourmet Mushrooms (GGM) introducing
Japanese cultivation techniques and many new varieties of edible and
medicinal mushrooms to the US market. Located in San Marcos, near San
Diego's elite horse industry and the Del Mar Race Track, it has been a
decade long process of introduction and collaboration with top scientists,
veterinarians, trainers, and owners who provided valuable feedback as the
organic mushroom blend now used by Nafzger took shape.
Though the most notable response by horses is a calm focusing effect with
improved training response, recent findings are showing great promise in
other vital areas like significant improvements in fertility,
decreased recovery times and bleeding, general health and complementary
medicinal benefits resulting for the complex nutritional content of fungi
not found in most processed horse feeds today. GGM's Mushroom Matrix ECP
(Equine Calm Performance) product is the first of its kind blending of nine
different pure organic mushroom varieties.
"It's taken trainers like Carl Nafzger and the extraordinary talent of a
horse like 'Street Sense' to really show the potential for a much cleaner
approach for the racing industry," said Marvin Hausman M.D, lead scientist
at Mushroom Matrix, a wholly owned subsidiary of Golden Gourmet Mushrooms,
Inc. "Drugs and steroids have really taken their toll on the industry in my
opinion, especially in the breeding sheds where too many winners have
turned out to be duds -- primarily related to overmedication and steroids.
These approaches have denied us true champions on the track and in the
breeding shed for far too long. I think Carl's success with this horse
bodes well for a revitalization of a much more traditional approach to
training and focus on natural science. It's happening in so many other
sports, why not horse racing? It's important for the image of the sport. We
need true and enduring champions."
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