How many furlongs are horses usually blown out for?
This depends on whether the breeze is to set a horse up just before a race (perhaps three days before, doing a short “pipe opener” which may be a quarter or 3/8ths of a mile), or its part of the breezes used to get a horse back to the races, or to the races for the first time. The first breezes will start at an eighth, or a quarter of a mile, and gradually progress. It is unusual to breeze a horse beyond 3/4s of a mile. Alternatively we might “open gallop” instead of breeze. This is also called a “two minute clip” or half speed gallop. For that we go 15 seconds an eighth and this can be for a longer work (up to a mile).
