Equipment Changes and How They Work PART 1: BLINKERS, VISORS, AND CHEEKPIECES It’s not easy training racehorses. Like human beings, every animal has its own personality and individual quirks. Some are fairly straight-forward and easy to deal with, others less so. And as they get older horses, like humans, often tend to find ways to avoid over-exerting themselves and getting away with doing as little work as possible! We will discuss the equipment along with notations to help you recognize equipment status and changes on the race cards. To try and cope with a huge range of idiosyncrasies trainers can turn to a range of different equipment to help get the best out of their horses, most of which is declared to the general public on the daily list of runners to keep us informed of what options are being used and help us coming to a decision about the right horse on which to bet. Among the wide range of primarily headgear that are used to help encourage horses to put their ...