Organization Recognized for its Dedication to Preserve Land for Equestrian Activities
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact:
Rebecca Pitcher
Equine Resources International, LLC
610-444-7554
Rebecca@equineresources.com
Madison, NJ (June 1, 2012) – Pfizer Animal Health and American Horse Publications (AHP) are proud to announce that the Equine Land Conservation Resource (ELCR) has been named the recipient of the eleventh annual Equine Industry Vision Award. A truly unique honor, the Equine Industry Vision Award is the first of its kind to showcase innovation across the entire equine market, as well as recognize ingenuity and service. This award was presented to the Immediate Past President Larry Byers and founder Georgiana Hubbard McCabe, representing ELCR’s four original founders, during a ceremony held on Friday, June 1 at the AHP Ride into History Seminar in Colonial Williamsburg, VA.
The ELCR was selected to receive this honor because of the organizations dedication to help preserve land for the future of equestrian sports, recreation and industry. The ELCR is an organization that works to educate horse owners regarding key issues related to land conservation as well as establish partnerships with individuals and organizations that can help represent the conservation community. The ELCR is the only national organization addressing these issues for the equestrian community.
“It’s an honor to recognize the ELCR for their vision and dedication to help preserve and protect U.S. land for the future of equestrian sports,” said Kate Russo, Marketing Manager, Cattle and Equine Parasiticides, at Pfizer Animal Health. “The ELCR has made exemplary strides in educating horse owners and organizations on the issues that losing open land can have on the equestrian industry. The work of this organization is imperative to the industry as a whole.”
Founded in 1997, the ELCR was initiated by a group of concerned horse people who recognized that the loss of open land is the greatest threat to the future of all equestrian sports, recreation and industry1. What began as a program within the Conservation Fund, a highly respected conservation organization, became what today the industry recognizes as the national organization to preserve land and promote access for all types of equestrian use.
Across the U.S., the country is losing 6,000 acres of agriculture, forest and other lands each day1. Conservatively, the U.S. needs 36,000,000 acres to feed the estimated 9 million horses in the country1.
Over time, the ELCR has learned that all land is saved locally. ELCR’s vision is to provide horsemen with the tools, resources and networks needed to ensure a viable future for horse-related activity in their own home towns2. ELCR has enlisted 122 equine organizations and corporation as Conservation Partners and their involvement is critical to the success of the mission2. The Conservation partners represent 1.2 million members.
“ELCR is an innovator with a vision and the determination to raise awareness of the land loss issue and to promote the broad array of international resources and experts necessary to ensure land is available for our industry to thrive,” said Don Treadway Jr., Executive Vice President of the American Quarter Horse Association. “As a breed organization, we look to the ELCR as the lead organization on land issues related to equine needs.”
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the US population is projected to increase to 392 million by 2050 from 308 million in 20102. That represents more than a 50-percent increase from the 1990 population size2. That population growth will be located primarily around urban and suburban centers. A critical issue facing the equestrian community is maintaining the boarding stables, youth riding academies, competition and training spaces, trails and hay suppliers in proximity of the population centers. This accessibility to horse and equine activities within 30 miles of population centers is essential to the future of the equine industry. These urban and suburban participants are the next Olympic champions, race horse trainers and breeders, regional competitors and recreational riders. They’ll also be customers of the suppliers to the equine industry – the veterinarians, clothing and footwear manufacturers, saddle and harness makers, feed and supplement companies.
“Receiving the Equine Industry Vision Award is an honor and a privilege,” said Georgiana Hubbard McCabe, ELCR past president and one of ELCR’s four founders. “To be recognized by our peers for our mission and for the dedication of our friends, partners and supporters to conserve and protect horse lands and the equestrian lifestyle, means the world to us.” The other finalists for this year’s Equine Industry Vision Award included Michael Blowen, president and founder of Old Friends, retirement farm for pensioned Thoroughbred race horses, Denny Emerson, USEA Hall of Fame member and past president of the USET, and the American Paint Horse Association, which celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2012.
American Horse Publications
American Horse Publications is a non-profit professional association dedicated to promoting excellence in equine media and better understanding and communication within the equine publishing industry. For more information on the association or to request a nomination ballot for the 2013 Equine Industry Vision Award, please contact: Chris Brune, American Horse Publications at ahorsepubs@aol.com or 386-760-7743 or visit the AHP Web site at www.americanhorsepubs.org.
About Pfizer Animal Health
Pfizer Animal Health, a business unit of Pfizer Inc., is a world leader in the discovery, development and manufacture of innovative animal health vaccines, medicines, and diagnostic products. Pfizer Animal Health invests more in research and development than any other animal health company. We work to assure a safe, sustainable global food supply from healthy beef and dairy cattle, swine, poultry and fish while helping dogs, cats and horses live healthier longer lives. We strive to be the animal health company that provides full healthcare solutions to veterinarians, livestock producers, and pet owners. To learn more, visit www.us.animalhealth.pfizer.com.
Friday, June 01, 2012
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Mountain bikers, equestrians try to play nice on trails
Auburnjournal.com - Full Article
5/29/12
With a growing community of mountain bike riders, equestrians are trying to hold onto their trails
By Justin A. Lawson Journal Staff Writer
The scenic and challenging trails in the Auburn area have become a favorite for hikers, mountain bikers and equestrians. With the pleasant weather and the American River as a backdrop to many of the trails it’s easy to see why, but the swelling numbers of mountain bikers have forced a competition for trail time with equestrians.
“The mountain bike community is just growing and growing and they’re just riding out there on some of the horse trails and we encounter a lot of that,” said Joe Larkin, president of the Gold Country Endurance Riders.
On a busy weekend you can find a number of cars parked along the Foresthill Divide Loop with bike racks on the roof. While the trail is designated a multi-use trail, mountain bikers have basically taken over the trail, which was rated one of the top 5 rides in Northern California by Yahoo!.
The trails on the loop are narrow with several blind corners that are challenging for mountain bikers to avoid collisions and can easily spook unsuspecting horses...
Read more here:
Auburnjournal.com
5/29/12
With a growing community of mountain bike riders, equestrians are trying to hold onto their trails
By Justin A. Lawson Journal Staff Writer
The scenic and challenging trails in the Auburn area have become a favorite for hikers, mountain bikers and equestrians. With the pleasant weather and the American River as a backdrop to many of the trails it’s easy to see why, but the swelling numbers of mountain bikers have forced a competition for trail time with equestrians.
“The mountain bike community is just growing and growing and they’re just riding out there on some of the horse trails and we encounter a lot of that,” said Joe Larkin, president of the Gold Country Endurance Riders.
On a busy weekend you can find a number of cars parked along the Foresthill Divide Loop with bike racks on the roof. While the trail is designated a multi-use trail, mountain bikers have basically taken over the trail, which was rated one of the top 5 rides in Northern California by Yahoo!.
The trails on the loop are narrow with several blind corners that are challenging for mountain bikers to avoid collisions and can easily spook unsuspecting horses...
Read more here:
Auburnjournal.com
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
9 weeks till Tevis 2012
5/30/2012
With just over 9 weeks left till the August 4th Tevis Cup, 119 riders from 4 countries have pre-registered.
See the current rider list here:
http://teviscup.org/tevis-2012/the-2012-tevis-cup/current-rider-list
Sign up by July 14 to avoid late fees. To be seeded in Pen 1, you must supply your record on the entered horse for the period of January 1, 2011 through June 30, 2012.
For more information and entry form see
http://teviscup.org/
With just over 9 weeks left till the August 4th Tevis Cup, 119 riders from 4 countries have pre-registered.
See the current rider list here:
http://teviscup.org/tevis-2012/the-2012-tevis-cup/current-rider-list
Sign up by July 14 to avoid late fees. To be seeded in Pen 1, you must supply your record on the entered horse for the period of January 1, 2011 through June 30, 2012.
For more information and entry form see
http://teviscup.org/
And in Forty-Seventh Place…
Seattlepi.com - Horsebytes Blog
by Monica Bretherton
“Who’s that?” I asked, as a nearly white horse came speeding towards the start line with another in hot pursuit.
It was at the Mt. Adams endurance ride in 2010, and I was waiting for two friends to finish their fifty-mile ride.
At my fourth endurance ride, I didn’t really know many of the other riders. My new best friend, a ride volunteer, answered as my shutter clicked as they flashed past us, “Dennis Summers… and Rosie.”
I might not have remembered that moment, except that I was to see Dennis Summers repeatedly at future rides, usually at the awards meeting, when he had to get up twice, first on behalf of his win and then to collect the cooler for Best Condition.
Sometimes he and his wife, Sue Summers, have to toss a coin to see who will be given the first place after crossing the finish line together.
They are one of the power couples in West Coast endurance. They ride to win, and now they are sharing some of their methodology in a book called 4th Gear: Power up Your Endurance Horse, available on Amazon as an e-book.
I read it before going to Mt. Adams this year. Although I knew the book was not primarily directed to riders like myself, for whom a limited distance ride is enough of a challenge, I read a lot faster than I ride and thought I could get through it without wearing myself out.
Thanks to the snappy, conversational style and personal tone, I breezed right through it.
Afterwards, I felt like a super-lean distance runner who routinely top-tens at Tevis. For about fifteen minutes anyway. But that’s all you get even for your real achievements, at least according to Andy Warhol.
Time well spent
The highest value to me turned out to be reinforcing the importance of the Strategic Planning Department. That’s where I like to hang out anyway.
If, like me, you aren’t a super-athlete, making informed choices — whether in chosing your competitive horse, your conditioning methodology, your care regiment or your ride plan — is especially critical. Plus strategic thinking it is the aspect of endurance riding that sucked me in, besides going fast in gorgeous country and good company. It’s not a trail ride, its conditioning with a purpose...
Read more here:
http://blog.seattlepi.com/horsebytes/2012/05/29/and-in-forty-seventh-place/
by Monica Bretherton
“Who’s that?” I asked, as a nearly white horse came speeding towards the start line with another in hot pursuit.
It was at the Mt. Adams endurance ride in 2010, and I was waiting for two friends to finish their fifty-mile ride.
At my fourth endurance ride, I didn’t really know many of the other riders. My new best friend, a ride volunteer, answered as my shutter clicked as they flashed past us, “Dennis Summers… and Rosie.”
I might not have remembered that moment, except that I was to see Dennis Summers repeatedly at future rides, usually at the awards meeting, when he had to get up twice, first on behalf of his win and then to collect the cooler for Best Condition.
Sometimes he and his wife, Sue Summers, have to toss a coin to see who will be given the first place after crossing the finish line together.
They are one of the power couples in West Coast endurance. They ride to win, and now they are sharing some of their methodology in a book called 4th Gear: Power up Your Endurance Horse, available on Amazon as an e-book.
I read it before going to Mt. Adams this year. Although I knew the book was not primarily directed to riders like myself, for whom a limited distance ride is enough of a challenge, I read a lot faster than I ride and thought I could get through it without wearing myself out.
Thanks to the snappy, conversational style and personal tone, I breezed right through it.
Afterwards, I felt like a super-lean distance runner who routinely top-tens at Tevis. For about fifteen minutes anyway. But that’s all you get even for your real achievements, at least according to Andy Warhol.
Time well spent
The highest value to me turned out to be reinforcing the importance of the Strategic Planning Department. That’s where I like to hang out anyway.
If, like me, you aren’t a super-athlete, making informed choices — whether in chosing your competitive horse, your conditioning methodology, your care regiment or your ride plan — is especially critical. Plus strategic thinking it is the aspect of endurance riding that sucked me in, besides going fast in gorgeous country and good company. It’s not a trail ride, its conditioning with a purpose...
Read more here:
http://blog.seattlepi.com/horsebytes/2012/05/29/and-in-forty-seventh-place/
Monday, May 28, 2012
Injured horse Amigo still going strong; fund helps other animals
WBIR.com - Full article & VideoMay 23 2012
Written by
Jim Matheny
At the top of the hierarchy for world's most famous race horse, you'll find names like Secretariat, Seabiscuit, and Man O' War.
A couple of years ago, no equestrian name was more famous in East Tennessee than "Amigo." The Arabian endurance race horse obtained champion-level celebrity status without winning a single competition. However, Amigo victoriously triumphed over an obstacle arguably more challenging than any triple crown.
Amigo's Injury
In January 2010, owner Gary Sanderson found Amigo at his barn after the endurance racehorse somehow stabbed himself through the chest with a limb measuring three feet in length. Doctors at the University of Tennessee's Large Animal Clinic initially gave Amigo a two percent chance of survival...
"I've seen some pretty bad things, but he [Amigo] was definitely the worst traumatic injury I've ever seen," said Carla Sommardahl, large animal specialist at the UT Vet School. "The amount of infection from that kind of internal injury was just devastating. But every day that he kept going, we started feeling like maybe we're going to save this one.""
Read more here:
http://www.wbir.com/news/article/220552/2/Injured-horse-Amigo-still-going-strong-fund-helps-other-animals
Monday, May 21, 2012
Toklat Saddle Pads Become "The Official Saddle Pad of the United States Equestrian Federation"
USEFnetwork.comRELEASE: May 17, 2012
AUTHOR/ADMINISTRATOR: USEF Communications Department
Lexington, KY - On April 20th 2012, the United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) and Toklat Originals signed an agreement designating Toklat saddle pads as "The Official Saddle Pad of the United States Equestrian Federation." The agreement continues through November, 2013 and for that 18 month period Toklat will provide saddle pads for athletes representing the United States in high performance equestrian disciplines.
At their factory in Lake Oswego, Oregon Toklat Originals designs and manufactures a variety of quality equine products, such as Matrix Saddle Pads and the Classic III series of quilted pads, that have been tested and endorsed by top equestrian athletes. The rigorous quality control enforced by Toklat ensures that high performance riders and horses will be outfitted with premium saddle pads whenever they represent the United States.
About the agreement Judy Auble, Sales Manager at Toklat, says "we're very excited to join with USEF to bring our best quality products to our top athletes."
To learn about the history of the name Toklat (it's an interesting one that's got a little to do with a river in Alaska and a little to do with a bear), and to shop for Toklat products, visit their website www.toklat.com.
For more information about USEF Sponsorship, please contact Scott Carling at scarling@usef.org
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Mackey Hwy 89
Heraldextra.com - Full Article
May 17, 2012
A couple of years ago, I wrote about the Hell's Kitchen Horseback Endurance Ride held annually in Sanpete County. Sponsored by the American Endurance Ride Conference (AERC), the Hell's Kitchen ride is one of the most popular events of its kind in Utah.
This year's Endurance Ride will be held Saturday, May 19, and will begin with a meeting Friday night just north of the Gunnison Cemetery with the base camp at the "old rodeo grounds." Like most events that last, there's a story behind the story.
Recently I had the opportunity to speak with Reed Syndergaard, Manti, about the ride's early years before it was an actual AERC approved event. He said back in the 1970s and early 80s every town in the area had at least one riding club,and some had two or more, with more than 4,500 members statewide.
"I don't know of one in the county today," he observed. Syndergaard said the clubs were involved in promoting equine events, many of which had long been associated with rodeo. The groups were affiliated with a state-wide riding club association. He became involved at nearly every level of the organization's leadership, including at the state and district levels.
Syndergaard said he and Arlene Christensen, Mt. Pleasant, got together with a number of other people involved with area riding clubs to create an endurance ride as a fundraiser. They began to focus on the area south of the rugged country long known as Hell's Kitchen...
Read more here:
http://www.heraldextra.com/sanpete-county/commentary/mackey-hwy/article_54972d7d-9f11-5cf8-944d-04ce30d358f8.html
May 17, 2012
A couple of years ago, I wrote about the Hell's Kitchen Horseback Endurance Ride held annually in Sanpete County. Sponsored by the American Endurance Ride Conference (AERC), the Hell's Kitchen ride is one of the most popular events of its kind in Utah.
This year's Endurance Ride will be held Saturday, May 19, and will begin with a meeting Friday night just north of the Gunnison Cemetery with the base camp at the "old rodeo grounds." Like most events that last, there's a story behind the story.
Recently I had the opportunity to speak with Reed Syndergaard, Manti, about the ride's early years before it was an actual AERC approved event. He said back in the 1970s and early 80s every town in the area had at least one riding club,and some had two or more, with more than 4,500 members statewide.
"I don't know of one in the county today," he observed. Syndergaard said the clubs were involved in promoting equine events, many of which had long been associated with rodeo. The groups were affiliated with a state-wide riding club association. He became involved at nearly every level of the organization's leadership, including at the state and district levels.
Syndergaard said he and Arlene Christensen, Mt. Pleasant, got together with a number of other people involved with area riding clubs to create an endurance ride as a fundraiser. They began to focus on the area south of the rugged country long known as Hell's Kitchen...
Read more here:
http://www.heraldextra.com/sanpete-county/commentary/mackey-hwy/article_54972d7d-9f11-5cf8-944d-04ce30d358f8.html
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Pritzlaff bloodlines in Distance Horse of the Year
Modern Arabian Horse - Full Article
by Marcha Hayes
Issue 2/2012
Shunning horse shows, Egyptian breeder Richard Pritzlaff nurtured his horses on thousands of acres of northern New Mexico terrain. Endurance rider Crockett Dumas continue this breeding legacy.
She's young, beautiful and has a four-year old at home. She's OT Sara Moniet RSI and AHA's Distance Horse of 2011. Like most working moms in American today, OT Sara Moniet RSI (Sara) has a complex background, life and support system. Bred, fed, trained, shod, and ridden by owner Crockett Dumas of Escalante, Utah, Sara accomplished amazing things in 2011. She completed 31 out of 31 AERC rides, totaling 1,675 miles. Sara finished top ten in all rides except the 2011 100 Mile Tevis Cup, and was declared Best Conditioned at nine events. And although only seven years old at the time, she accomplished these feats carrying a rider/tack combination of around 225 pounds...
Read more here:
http://www.pagegangster.com/p/gDZnf/#/page/83
by Marcha Hayes
Issue 2/2012
Shunning horse shows, Egyptian breeder Richard Pritzlaff nurtured his horses on thousands of acres of northern New Mexico terrain. Endurance rider Crockett Dumas continue this breeding legacy.
She's young, beautiful and has a four-year old at home. She's OT Sara Moniet RSI and AHA's Distance Horse of 2011. Like most working moms in American today, OT Sara Moniet RSI (Sara) has a complex background, life and support system. Bred, fed, trained, shod, and ridden by owner Crockett Dumas of Escalante, Utah, Sara accomplished amazing things in 2011. She completed 31 out of 31 AERC rides, totaling 1,675 miles. Sara finished top ten in all rides except the 2011 100 Mile Tevis Cup, and was declared Best Conditioned at nine events. And although only seven years old at the time, she accomplished these feats carrying a rider/tack combination of around 225 pounds...
Read more here:
http://www.pagegangster.com/p/gDZnf/#/page/83
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Canadians Endurance Riders Clean Up in North Carolina
Horse-canada.com
HORSE SPORT MAY 9, 2012
BY: EQUINE CANADA
At the FEI/FEI-JYR 100, 75, 50 Biltmore Challenge held at the Biltmore Equestrian Center, Ashville, NC, on May 5th, Misha Green and Vagas won first place in the 50 Mile FEI* and FEI Best Condition. In the 75 Mile FEI** Young Rider division, Lee Hutten and Parker AES also won first place. Third place went to Emma Webb and CwmFellen Zillary.
More information about the Biltmore Challenge may be found at http://www.biltmoreendurance.com/.
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
Endurance Rider Holly Corcoran Has Her Eye on WEG 2014
Pennsylvaniaequestrian.com - Full Article
May 2012 - Marcella Peyre-Ferry
It is a long hard road to the top of any sport, but Holly Corcoran of Stroudsburg PA has gotten there in 50 and 100 mile stretches. Corcoran is actively competing and winning in FEI level endurance rides with an eye toward the WEG in 2014 and more.
Corcoran is a CPA and entrepreneur by profession, yet she is passionate about the sport of endurance riding. Originally from New Jersey, she has always loved trail riding. She grew up with horses, riding since she was six months old when her father first put her on one of the family Morgan horses.
After a fifteen-year hiatus, she returned to riding as an adult, entering the western show ring, and teaching her children to ride. They were involved in 4H, and Corcoran was a club leader for 10 years while the family took part in showing Arabians. “It kind of started off pretty tame. As I was going along, I was finding I was really looking for something different,” she said.
Daughter Kelly is now 21 and nearing graduation from Penn State and has applied to vet school for the fall. That leaves Corcoran time to pursue her love of endurance riding.
Not for Everyone
Endurance riding is not a sport for every horse and rider combination. It involves a timed race over 50 to 100 miles in one day over a marked course, monitored by veterinarians at intermittent checkpoints. Winning requires the horse and rider team to turn in the best time within the maximum time limits of 12 hours for a 50 and 24 hours for a 100 mile ride, plus the horse must be deemed “fit to continue” at the end of the trek...
read more here:
http://www.pennsylvaniaequestrian.com/news2012/may/Endurance-Rider-Holly-Corcoran-Has-Her-Eye-on-WEG-2014.php
Sunday, May 06, 2012
Biltmore Challenge
Biltmore Challenge
The Biltmore Challenge Endurance Ride took place on May 5 2012 at the Biltmore Equestrian Center in Asheville, North Carolina, with an open AERC, AHA Local 50 and 75 miles, Region 12 Championship 100 mile, FEI/FEI-JYR 100, 75, 50, SERA sanctioned and SEDRA sanctioned.
Eone Willemse won a close race to the finish of the 100 miles, riding Valerie Kanavy's My Wild Irish Gold over Jeremy Reynolds.
The following is a partial (unofficial) list of completors.
100 miles
26 starters
1. Eone Willemse on My Wild Irish Gold
2. Jeremy Reynolds
3. Becky Bunnel (first AHA)
4. Amy Wallace Whelan
5. Gina Hagis
6. Steve Rojek
6. Lisa Green
8. Don Meuten and Fury
9. Sudi Lenhart
10. Patricia Clark and Sierra Bey Wind
11. Karen Bell
11. Stephen Faryadi (Jr)
also finished
Cat Carter, Debbie Schultz, Jennifer Sapira, Denis Susan Franklin
75 miles
47 starters, 37 finishers
1. Ceci Butler-Stasiuk and Diesel 8:08
2. Leigh Ann Pauley and Steeleman (Best Condition)
3. Lee Hutten (YR)
4. Mary Farris
5. Diane Hawthorne
6. Christina Kimery (YR)
7. TJ Vore and Shadowfax
8. Emma Webb
9. Wendy Benns
10. Mary Kathryn Clark (YR)
50 miles
89 starters, 72 finishers
1. Jesse Jarrett on Smoke Deuce in 4:20
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Tevis: Joint Trail Work Day May 12
April 29 2012
On Saturday May 12th We will be working hard on the Pucker Point Trail. Meet at Foresthill Joe's Coffee Shop at 8:00am.
We'll divide up into groups and head out to areas in need of trimming, water bars and other general maintenance. Plan to wrap-up and regroup at Foresthill Joe's for lunch.
Bring: Gloves, water, snack, clippers, hand saw, shovel, etc. Please RSVP on scheduled work parties to trails@ws100.com.
This event can be applied to 2012 volunteer requirement.
Looking forward to seeing everyone on the trail!
Sincerely,
Donn Zea
WS Trail Manager
WS Board of Trustees
Mike Shackelford
Tevis Cup Trail Manager
WSTF Board of Trustees
The next Trail Work day will be Saturday, June 2nd. Please meet at Foresthill Joe's Coffe Shop at 8:00 am to work on Duncan Canyon.
Updated Trail Work information can be found online under the "Trail Work Projects" Quick Link in the left-hand column of the home page at www.teviscup.org.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Chad Crosby andBeverly Gray Help Strengthen Omega Fields Brand
Newton, WI, April 27, 2012 – Omega Fields® has announced that horse stables owner/trainer Chad Crosby and endurance racer/trainer Beverly Gray have joined their stable of company spokespeople. They will help strengthen the Omega Fields brand during their show, competition and clinic appearances nationwide, promoting the company's Omega-3-rich, milled flaxseed supplements for animals and humans.
Chad Crosby, http://www.stealingtheshowstables.com/index.html, has over 25 years of equine experience including 10 years as a Licensed Veterinary Technician. Owner of one of Charleston's premiere equestrian facilities, Stealing the Show Stables, Johns Island, SC, Crosby offers top quality instruction for youth and amateur riders for Open, IEA, APHA/PtHA, AQHA and rated hunter show circuits. He also sells and leases horses for clients' riding or showing needs.
Crosby has been feeding Omega Fields supplements to all of his show horses for many years and attributes their many wins in part to the benefits of this Omega-3-rich powerhouse supplement, including healthy, shiny coats; strong, solid hooves and quick recovery after exercise.
"Omega Horseshine® is the only supplement that I insist on giving to all of by show horses, as I feel it sets them apart from the others in the show ring," said Crosby. "Being that my facility is located on the sandy soil of Charleston, South Carolina, I also appreciate the added benefit of its psyllium[-like] properties to aid in the prevention of sand colic."
Beverly Gray, http://www.bevgrayusa.com/index.htm, has over two decades experience in endurance racing with many accomplishments including her selection to the United States Equestrian Endurance Team; first USA rider at the 2002 World Equestrian Games in Jerez, Spain; 2004 Dubai Gold Cup (14th of 110 riders with only 16 completing); Team Silver winner at the 2003 Pan American Championship; First Place and "Best Condition" at the Big Horn 100 and, three weeks later, finishing 9th at the Tevis. As a guest of the King of Malaysia, Beverly rode the Sultans Cup in Terrenganu, Malaysia. Recently, she raced at the American Endurance Ride Conference National Championship 100 finishing Reserve Champion.
Working with champion horses such as Arabian Regalidon (aka, Paladin) and Anglo-Arabian AA Omner, Gray is a firm believer in the outstanding results from supplementation with Omega Horseshine® and Omega Nibblers® treats. She is looking forward to being a part of the Omega Fields Spokesperson Program, using her extensive network of contacts to advance their fine products.
About Omega Fields
Omega Fields® provides premium, nutritional products, made from human-grade, non-GMO, stabilized ground flaxseed, rich in fiber and antioxidants, and containing the optimum ratio of the full spectrum of Omega Fatty Acids for equine, canine, poultry and human nutrition.
Omega Fields® and its parent company, ENRECO®, Inc. have been innovators and market leaders for more than 25 years, being the first in the industry to manufacture premium, Omega-3-rich, human food-grade, flax based products for animal and human consumption. ENRECO® was also a pioneer in developing ground flaxseed stabilization technology for long product shelf life and was the first in the flaxseed industry to garner SQF 2000, Level 3 certification – a world standard of safety and quality – for its flaxseed products.
Omega Fields® is recognized as a minority owned business. Its mission is to offer the finest quality, most nutritious products at fair prices, and to provide outstanding customer service. We want our customers to have exceptional experiences with our products, our staff, our websites and our retailers.
For further information, contact Patrick Young, Omega Fields Director of Communications, toll free at 1-800-962-9536 or 920-550-4061, ext. 118, email pat.young@enreco.com, or visit www.OmegaFields.com or www.FLAX.com.
Contact:
Patrick J. Young
Director of Communications
Omega Fields®
Ph: 920-550-4061 Ext. 118
Email: pat.young@enreco.com
Monday, April 23, 2012
American Endurance Ride Conference marks 40th anniversary
APRIL 20, 2012 -- Back in 1972, a small group of Northern California distance horseback riders gathered to create an organization to recognize their riding accomplishments, standardize ride rules, and work to preserve trails. Still going strong, this month the American Endurance Ride Conference celebrates its 40th anniversary.
AERC is still headquartered in the self-proclaimed “Endurance Capital of the World” in Auburn, which continues to be a hot spot for endurance riding 40 years later. Much has changed in the sport – the six simple rules adopted in the 1970s have become a 10,000-word document – but the basic premise is the same: a rider, a horse, and a trail.
Perhaps the best known of all endurance rides is the venerable Western States Endurance Ride, commonly known as the Tevis Cup, which traverses the Sierra Nevadas from near Lake Tahoe to Auburn under the full moon one summer night each year. Today, hundreds of rides are sanctioned by AERC across the U.S. and Canada, ranging from 25 to 100 miles per day. Also popular are Pioneer Rides, which are a minimum of three consecutive days and 155 total miles.
Endurance riding grew from its humble California beginnings to become an internationally recognized sport. Hundreds of endurance rides are held annually around the U.S. and Canada, with everything from small, low-key rides to ultra-competitive races. The nation’s top riders are gearing up for the World Endurance Championships to be held August 25 in England and the AERC National Championship rides September 20 and 22 at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina.
The welfare of the horse is paramount in endurance riding, and veterinarians acting as control judges check the horses before, during and after the competition. Most new endurance riders begin with the 25-30 mile rides in the limited distance division. While there is no minimum time for completion of a ride, the maximum time for a 25-mile ride is six hours. When riders are ready to move up to 50-mile rides, the time limit jumps to 12 hours, including mandatory rest stops. For the 100-mile rides, horse-and-rider teams have 24 hours to complete the ride.
All equines are eligible to compete, and while Arabian horses proliferate, there are a growing number of gaited horses participating. Mules and quarter horses are common mounts, but even draft horses and at least one zebra have competed in endurance.
Endurance riding is truly a sport for every horseman with a fit horse. And one of those original six rules which is still in force is that “everyone finishing a ride shall receive a completion award.” As AERC motto states, “to finish is to win.”
All ages are welcome at endurance competitions. “Endurance riding is truly a family sport, allowing lots of family bonding time while traversing some beautiful countryside,” said AERC Executive Director Kathleen Henkel. “Moms, dads, and even grandparents can participate on the trails with junior riders.”
Rho Bailey, one of AERC’s founders who works part-time at the office, said, “Nothing matches the satisfaction and feeling of accomplishment of finishing a 50- or 100-mile.
“Being able to see territory and trails you would never see otherwise is one of the special things about endurance riding,” she added. The other is the bond that develops between horse and rider. “You really depend on each other out on the trail.”
No matter how much the sport has changed, she said that three things will always remain the same: “It will always be fun, competitive and educational.”
The organization’s national office tracks miles and points for all members and their horses, and confers annual awards in both regional and national competitions, including a family award and an award given to the rider 65 or older who completes the most miles each year.
AERC’s monthly publication, Endurance News, includes an extensive ride calendar and awards standings each month as well as education articles and features. Memberships are $75 per year, with a 15% discount for first-time members.
More information on endurance riding is available by visiting www.aerc.org or by calling the AERC office at 823-2260.
AERC Rules (1974)
The term endurance riding is defined as an athletic event in which the same horse and rider cover a measured course and conforms to the following conditions:
- The first horse to finish (in the least amount of time) in acceptable condition is the winner.
- An award is given for the best conditioned horse.
- There can be no minimum time limit.
- The ride (horses) must be controlled by veterinarians.
- Everyone finishing a ride shall receive a completion award.
- The ride is open to all breeds of horses.
Friday, April 20, 2012
Chef Review of USA Endurance Team Trials
Horsereporter.com - Full Article
By Pamela@horsereporter
Chef’s Review and Wrap of March 31, Texas Team Trials
April 16, 2012, Texas, USA
A new system to change the selection process was initiated this year in an attempt to bring the six soundest and fittest horses possible to the August 25, 2012 World Endurance Championship in Euston Park England, and regain some lost pride and improve the poor results of the last 14 years. As the new Chef d’Equipe, I felt a head-to-head challenge was the best way to remove the subjectivity of prior selection processes.
Top Five Finish March 31
1. Jeremy Reynolds–A Kutt Above–19.35 km/h
2. Wendy MacCoubrey—Reach for the Gold–19.35 km/h—Wendy was a proxy rider for Valerie Kanavy who had 3 entries—Valerie will campaign this horse
3. Becky Hart—No Repeat–19.34 km/h
4. Heather Reynolds–Riverwatch–18.40 km/h
5. Nicki Meuton–Not Tonight—18.22 km/h
Rider Long List
A long list of 20 riders resulted from the 160 km FEI 3* event. In about 8-10 weeks, in the last weeks of June, the long listed riders will be required to gather in one of three different locations throughout the US depending on where the horse/rider combinations are domiciled, to continue demonstrating their soundness and fitness. From the results of the test event, the fitness and soundness reviews, and rider/horse combination history, an elite group of 12 will be chosen to become the Nominated list which must be submitted no later (in our case sooner) than July 24, 2012, to the Organizing Committee. Shortly after selecting the Nominated candidates the traveling squad of 6 and possibly a spare combination will be prepared to travel to a stable and training center nearby Euston Park near the village of Thetford.
Flight to Stansted
Fortunately the horses will only have to endure a 6-7 hour flight to Stansted from Newark, New Jersey. This entry is only about an hour drive to the UK stables. The new team veterinarian, Dr. Dwight Hooton, who is no stranger to world endurance needs and support, will lead a much needed effort to ensure the horses are ready to go at full strength.
As Chef I am tremendously pleased with the results of our trial event and look forward to initiating a new approach to racing and gaining better results. The trial course in the town of Mt Pleasant in northeast Texas was hosted so generously by the PRIEFERT RANCH EQUIPMENT Co. and the Priefert family. The trial provided numerous challenges, mostly due to the soggy portion of the trail, the result of several hard rains of 4-6 inches just weeks before the event—but wise race management prevailed and good solid times resulted– giving me much hope and encouragement. There was nearly 100% humidity and fairly hot weather for the time of year. Another bonus was the addition of several new international FEI participants, including three Young Riders, which bodes well for our future.
As is the case in most of the world endurance community, none of our efforts and dreams could be achieved without the tireless contributions of many volunteers and FEI officials. My sincere thanks goes to all who contributed to our new dawn of US Endurance racing. We are coming to England to renew old friendships with our endurance brethren, take the best care of our equine friends, and make no mistake about it—we want to race and achieve our goals. Good luck to all.
USA Chef d’Equipe, Emmett Ross
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Western States Trail Work Schedule Meeting Change!
April 17, 2012
Hello everyone,
Due to a change in work priorities and recent precipitation we are changing our work location and meeting place for this Saturday's (April 21) trail work day. That information is provided below. If you plan on attending and haven't responded please RSVP at trails@ws100.com.
For all remaining dates, we will be on National Forest land. Please remember that the United States Forest Service requires that you fill out, sign and send the Volunteer Liability Release Form (this is not the WS service requirement form) to the agency office before you can volunteer. Instructions and a link to the PDF form are provided at ws100.com/projects.htm#fedform . You can provide a scanned signature and send to the e-mail address provided or print, sign and fax or mail. Or, to sign the form electronically (digital ID) click on the link in the signature field and follow the directions for creating a new digital ID. You can then save and send a copy of the PDF file. Please remember this is very important to the agency and they are important to us!
2012 Remaining Trail Work Projects
April 21 -- Meeting place and work location change
Peachstone (CAL 2)
8:00 am, Starbucks, 13345 Lincoln Way, Auburn (near corner of Foresthill Rd. and Lincoln Way, adjacent to Interstate 80)
May 12 (last day to earn service requirement hours for 2012 WS Run)
Pucker Point Trail
8:00 am, Foresthill Joe's Coffee Shop
June 2 (these dates will serve as credit for 2013 WS Run)
Duncan Canyon
8:00 am, Foresthill Joe's Coffee Shop
June 15-16 (Robinson Flat campout)
Red Star Ridge
Friday afternoon/Saturday, 8:30 am
Please remember to dress appropriately as the weather is unpredictable. Be sure to wear long pants and bring work gloves, water and a snack. A great lunch and beverages will be provided and waiting at the finish, typically around 1:30 pm. We look forward to seeing you on the trail!
Donn Zea
Western States Endurance Run
Board of Trustees
Mike Shackelford
Western States Trail Foundation
Board of Governors
Hello everyone,
Due to a change in work priorities and recent precipitation we are changing our work location and meeting place for this Saturday's (April 21) trail work day. That information is provided below. If you plan on attending and haven't responded please RSVP at trails@ws100.com.
For all remaining dates, we will be on National Forest land. Please remember that the United States Forest Service requires that you fill out, sign and send the Volunteer Liability Release Form (this is not the WS service requirement form) to the agency office before you can volunteer. Instructions and a link to the PDF form are provided at ws100.com/projects.htm#fedform . You can provide a scanned signature and send to the e-mail address provided or print, sign and fax or mail. Or, to sign the form electronically (digital ID) click on the link in the signature field and follow the directions for creating a new digital ID. You can then save and send a copy of the PDF file. Please remember this is very important to the agency and they are important to us!
2012 Remaining Trail Work Projects
April 21 -- Meeting place and work location change
Peachstone (CAL 2)
8:00 am, Starbucks, 13345 Lincoln Way, Auburn (near corner of Foresthill Rd. and Lincoln Way, adjacent to Interstate 80)
May 12 (last day to earn service requirement hours for 2012 WS Run)
Pucker Point Trail
8:00 am, Foresthill Joe's Coffee Shop
June 2 (these dates will serve as credit for 2013 WS Run)
Duncan Canyon
8:00 am, Foresthill Joe's Coffee Shop
June 15-16 (Robinson Flat campout)
Red Star Ridge
Friday afternoon/Saturday, 8:30 am
Please remember to dress appropriately as the weather is unpredictable. Be sure to wear long pants and bring work gloves, water and a snack. A great lunch and beverages will be provided and waiting at the finish, typically around 1:30 pm. We look forward to seeing you on the trail!
Donn Zea
Western States Endurance Run
Board of Trustees
Mike Shackelford
Western States Trail Foundation
Board of Governors
Sunday, April 08, 2012
4th Gear Power Up Your Endurance Horse - New Book by Dennis Summers
Lulu.com MarketplaceBy Dennis Summers
eBook (ePub for Adobe Digital Editions)
My intent in writing 4th gear is to provide cutting edge information to all endurance riders that will help them and their horses reach their goals. We will cover many subjects you may have been in doubt about and hopefully a couple that you hadn’t much considered yet. I will raise as many questions as answers and call on you the reader to tap your inner horseman to come up with solutions yourself to the challenges that will arise. This is a skill that will in large part determine your success and satisfaction in this greatest of equestrian sports. These endurance horses are extreme athletes of the highest caliber. Together let’s develop a program that will bring out their best.
Available for $10 as an immediate download.
To purchase, see
http://www.lulu.com/shop/dennis-summers/4th-gear-power-up-your-endurance-horse/ebook/product-20044374.html
Friday, April 06, 2012
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Impressive Field Set to Contest CEI3* 160km Team Trial
Equisearch.com - Full Article
This weekend the United States' top endurance riders will vie for a chance to represent the U.S. at the 2012 FEI World Endurance Championship.
March 28th, 2012 -- This weekend the United States' top endurance riders will vie for a chance to represent the U.S. at the 2012 FEI World Endurance Championship. Saturday, March 31st riders will compete in the CEI3* 160km Team Trial held at the Priefert Ranch in Mt. Pleasant, Texas. Every attempt has been made to replicate the course and environment of the upcoming Championship at these Trials. Saturday's race is expected to be an excellent showing of the nation's finest endurance horses.
In accordance with the selection procedures, upon completion of the Team Trial, the top 20 horses in addition to any wild-card's granted by Chef d'Equipe Emmett Ross, will be named to the Long List. The 2012 FEI World Endurance Championship will take place August 25, 2012 in Euston Park, Thetford (GBR).
Currently assembling in Mt. Pleasant, Texas are over 50 of the nation's best endurance horses and riders, which include both storied veterans and fresh faces to the sport. The Team Trial will feature three-time World Endurance Champion Becky Hart (1988, 1990, 1992) and two-time World Endurance Champion Valerie Kanavy (1994 and 1998). Hart will ride her current partner, No Repeat. While Kanavy will ride My Wild Irish Gold and has additionally entered Destiny Gold and Reach for the Gold, both to be ridden by Proxy Riders.
Also entered are the last two Tevis Cup winners, John Crandell III (2010) and Jeremy Reynolds (2011). Crandell will ride Heraldic, this pair most recently earned Team and Individual Silver medals at the 2011 Pan American Championships. Reynolds has entered 2011 Tevis and Haggin Cup winner Riverwatch, to be ridden by wife Heather, and will himself ride A Kutt Above.
"I am very excited that so many of our top horses are trying out for the team, in fact, this is the best field of U.S. 100 mile horses that's gathered in nearly 20 years," said Chef d'Equipe Ross. "As the Chef, I expect from this field of horses we will have a very strong team that will stand on the podium at the Championships."
Keep up with the 2012 U.S. Endurance Team and all the action from the CEI3* 160km Team Trial here; http://www.usefnetwork.com/featured/2012Endurance
This weekend the United States' top endurance riders will vie for a chance to represent the U.S. at the 2012 FEI World Endurance Championship.
March 28th, 2012 -- This weekend the United States' top endurance riders will vie for a chance to represent the U.S. at the 2012 FEI World Endurance Championship. Saturday, March 31st riders will compete in the CEI3* 160km Team Trial held at the Priefert Ranch in Mt. Pleasant, Texas. Every attempt has been made to replicate the course and environment of the upcoming Championship at these Trials. Saturday's race is expected to be an excellent showing of the nation's finest endurance horses.
In accordance with the selection procedures, upon completion of the Team Trial, the top 20 horses in addition to any wild-card's granted by Chef d'Equipe Emmett Ross, will be named to the Long List. The 2012 FEI World Endurance Championship will take place August 25, 2012 in Euston Park, Thetford (GBR).
Currently assembling in Mt. Pleasant, Texas are over 50 of the nation's best endurance horses and riders, which include both storied veterans and fresh faces to the sport. The Team Trial will feature three-time World Endurance Champion Becky Hart (1988, 1990, 1992) and two-time World Endurance Champion Valerie Kanavy (1994 and 1998). Hart will ride her current partner, No Repeat. While Kanavy will ride My Wild Irish Gold and has additionally entered Destiny Gold and Reach for the Gold, both to be ridden by Proxy Riders.
Also entered are the last two Tevis Cup winners, John Crandell III (2010) and Jeremy Reynolds (2011). Crandell will ride Heraldic, this pair most recently earned Team and Individual Silver medals at the 2011 Pan American Championships. Reynolds has entered 2011 Tevis and Haggin Cup winner Riverwatch, to be ridden by wife Heather, and will himself ride A Kutt Above.
"I am very excited that so many of our top horses are trying out for the team, in fact, this is the best field of U.S. 100 mile horses that's gathered in nearly 20 years," said Chef d'Equipe Ross. "As the Chef, I expect from this field of horses we will have a very strong team that will stand on the podium at the Championships."
Keep up with the 2012 U.S. Endurance Team and all the action from the CEI3* 160km Team Trial here; http://www.usefnetwork.com/featured/2012Endurance
Monday, March 26, 2012
Craig resident nabs four national trail riding awards
Craigdailypress.com - Full Article
By Joe Moylan
March 26, 2012
In 51 years of North American Trail Ride Conference competitions, no horse and rider team has ever won the organization’s top four national awards in the same year.
That changed in 2011 when Craig resident Ken Wolgram, 47, and his 12-year-old half Arabian, half quarter horse, Awesomes Fire N Ice, blazed a new standard.
Wolgram, a native Coloradan and Craig resident since he was 12, has been riding since he was 5 and competitively for the last 15 years.
He took home the NATRC President’s Cup for high point horse in the nation and the Jim Menefee award for combined horse and horsemanship in 2002...
Nine years later, he won those two trophies again and added two additional pieces of hardware to the collection — the Polly Bridges Memorial Trophy for high average horsemanship and the Bev Tibbetts Award for high average horse — to complete the organization’s first ever grand slam...
Read more here:
http://www.craigdailypress.com/news/2012/mar/26/craig-resident-nabs-four-national-trail-riding-awa/
By Joe Moylan
March 26, 2012
In 51 years of North American Trail Ride Conference competitions, no horse and rider team has ever won the organization’s top four national awards in the same year.
That changed in 2011 when Craig resident Ken Wolgram, 47, and his 12-year-old half Arabian, half quarter horse, Awesomes Fire N Ice, blazed a new standard.
Wolgram, a native Coloradan and Craig resident since he was 12, has been riding since he was 5 and competitively for the last 15 years.
He took home the NATRC President’s Cup for high point horse in the nation and the Jim Menefee award for combined horse and horsemanship in 2002...
Nine years later, he won those two trophies again and added two additional pieces of hardware to the collection — the Polly Bridges Memorial Trophy for high average horsemanship and the Bev Tibbetts Award for high average horse — to complete the organization’s first ever grand slam...
Read more here:
http://www.craigdailypress.com/news/2012/mar/26/craig-resident-nabs-four-national-trail-riding-awa/
KER-Sponsored Endurance Rider Prepping for Selection Trial
KER.com
March 20, 2012
John Crandell reports that he is currently training in Florida and has applied to the U.S. Team with Heraldic for the World Endurance Championship to be held in England in the summer of 2012. He is planning to participate in the 100-mile selection trial for the World competition, to be held in Texas in late March.
Crandell, who is sponsored by Kentucky Equine Research, counts on RiteTrac, a digestive tract conditioner, to help Heraldic stay in good health throughout the demands of training, travel, and competition. The equine stomach and hindgut of a heavily trained horse are subject to imbalances related to stress, large grain meals, and feed management practices. RiteTrac is designed to protecting the stomach lining and restore the normal gastric environment. It also prevents hindgut acidosis that can lead to compromised health and decreased performance.
March 20, 2012
John Crandell reports that he is currently training in Florida and has applied to the U.S. Team with Heraldic for the World Endurance Championship to be held in England in the summer of 2012. He is planning to participate in the 100-mile selection trial for the World competition, to be held in Texas in late March.
Crandell, who is sponsored by Kentucky Equine Research, counts on RiteTrac, a digestive tract conditioner, to help Heraldic stay in good health throughout the demands of training, travel, and competition. The equine stomach and hindgut of a heavily trained horse are subject to imbalances related to stress, large grain meals, and feed management practices. RiteTrac is designed to protecting the stomach lining and restore the normal gastric environment. It also prevents hindgut acidosis that can lead to compromised health and decreased performance.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Tevis Trail Work Project This Weekend
March 21 2012
With 19 Weeks and 2 days left till the 2012 Tevis, a few more work projects are scheduled for trail maintenance: March 24, April 21, and May 12.
This weekend's trail work will be between Volcano Canyon and El Dorado Canyon, starting at 8:30 AM. Meet at Foresthill Joe's Coffee Shop.
For more information, contact the Western States Trail Foundation office, at
wstf@teviscup.org.
With 19 Weeks and 2 days left till the 2012 Tevis, a few more work projects are scheduled for trail maintenance: March 24, April 21, and May 12.
This weekend's trail work will be between Volcano Canyon and El Dorado Canyon, starting at 8:30 AM. Meet at Foresthill Joe's Coffee Shop.
For more information, contact the Western States Trail Foundation office, at
wstf@teviscup.org.
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Back on the saddle: Guelph cowboy makes third attempt to go across country on a horse
Guelphmercury.com - Full Article
Rob O'Flanagan, Mercury staff Sat Mar 17 2012
GUELPH — Kimball Foord rides again.
Like his boyhood Western heroes, the Guelph horseman has a powerful hankering to cover the vast distances of the North American continent on the back of a horse.
Foord has tried twice before to traverse the country on a saddle. Both rides were foreshortened, the first time due to a strained personal relationship, the second time due to a badly strained knee.
On the first attempt he made it from the Guelph area at a slow gait nearly to the Manitoba border before he says he was tricked by an old friend into calling the whole thing off. He said he returned to help that friend battle a serious illness – a sickness the person had only contrived. He says he should have kept going; he might have made it to Mexico, and to freedom.
Hobbled by bad knees (as much by knee-replacement surgery lately as by the original arthritis), he is about to saddle up for another epic ride. He leaves Sunday from the Can-Am Equine Emporium in London, riding Bo, a Wyoming Mustang. Unlike previous rides, Foord has several equipment sponsors for his Canadian Long Ride for the Mustangs.
This time he’s riding in support of the preservation of North America’s dwindling wild Mustang population. He has no idea where his ride will end, but it could take him deep into the Canadian Wild West and as far as the Pacific Ocean...
Read more here:
http://www.guelphmercury.com/news/local/article/688460--back-on-the-saddle-guelph-cowboy-makes-third-attempt-to-go-across-country-on-a-horse
Rob O'Flanagan, Mercury staff Sat Mar 17 2012
GUELPH — Kimball Foord rides again.
Like his boyhood Western heroes, the Guelph horseman has a powerful hankering to cover the vast distances of the North American continent on the back of a horse.
Foord has tried twice before to traverse the country on a saddle. Both rides were foreshortened, the first time due to a strained personal relationship, the second time due to a badly strained knee.
On the first attempt he made it from the Guelph area at a slow gait nearly to the Manitoba border before he says he was tricked by an old friend into calling the whole thing off. He said he returned to help that friend battle a serious illness – a sickness the person had only contrived. He says he should have kept going; he might have made it to Mexico, and to freedom.
Hobbled by bad knees (as much by knee-replacement surgery lately as by the original arthritis), he is about to saddle up for another epic ride. He leaves Sunday from the Can-Am Equine Emporium in London, riding Bo, a Wyoming Mustang. Unlike previous rides, Foord has several equipment sponsors for his Canadian Long Ride for the Mustangs.
This time he’s riding in support of the preservation of North America’s dwindling wild Mustang population. He has no idea where his ride will end, but it could take him deep into the Canadian Wild West and as far as the Pacific Ocean...
Read more here:
http://www.guelphmercury.com/news/local/article/688460--back-on-the-saddle-guelph-cowboy-makes-third-attempt-to-go-across-country-on-a-horse
Friday, March 16, 2012
Tornado-Tossed Horse Under Kentucky Veterinarian's Care
Thehorse.com - Full Article
by: Pat Raia
March 14 2012, Article # 19738
6-year-old Kentucky Mountain Horse gelding is enjoying lots of attention since being swept up from his pasture and deposited into his owners' home by a tornado that swept through West Liberty, Ky., earlier this month.
On March 2 more than 40 confirmed tornadoes tore through Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio. The storms packed winds as high as 180 mph, knocking out utilities and flattening homes and barns. David Fugate, DVM, of the West Liberty Vet Clinic, said the town of West Liberty was among the hardest hit by the storm.
But the day proved extremely lucky for one West Liberty horse. Fugate said that during the storm, EF3 tornado-force winds ripped the roof off the horse's owners' home. Fugate said the horse--now named Twister--was then lifted out of his pasture and dropped into the house.
"They said they were walking down the hall and found the horse in the kitchen," Fugate said...
Read more here:
http://www.thehorse.com/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=19738
by: Pat Raia
March 14 2012, Article # 19738
6-year-old Kentucky Mountain Horse gelding is enjoying lots of attention since being swept up from his pasture and deposited into his owners' home by a tornado that swept through West Liberty, Ky., earlier this month.
On March 2 more than 40 confirmed tornadoes tore through Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio. The storms packed winds as high as 180 mph, knocking out utilities and flattening homes and barns. David Fugate, DVM, of the West Liberty Vet Clinic, said the town of West Liberty was among the hardest hit by the storm.
But the day proved extremely lucky for one West Liberty horse. Fugate said that during the storm, EF3 tornado-force winds ripped the roof off the horse's owners' home. Fugate said the horse--now named Twister--was then lifted out of his pasture and dropped into the house.
"They said they were walking down the hall and found the horse in the kitchen," Fugate said...
Read more here:
http://www.thehorse.com/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=19738
Edmond woman and her horse ride trail to success
NewsOK.com - Full Article
Kris Hapgood and her horse Buddy are staples in the trail riding circuit, and now they both have the prizes to prove it.
By Vallery Brown | Published: March 15, 2012
EDMOND — When Kris Hapgood met her champion horse about 13 years ago, he was an abused, bay-color colt with a striking white blaze down his face. The young horse was barely trained and had been dubbed a “man eater” because he often tried to bite his male handlers.
Hapgood found the horse listed for sale in the newspaper for $800. It was anyone's guess what breed he was, but Hapgood saw potential in a horse many had all but written off.
“I saw something in his eyes,” said Hapgood, 51. “We've had a bond since that day.”
So far, the 16-year-old gelding named Heza Trouble Makin' Buddy, or Buddy for short, has surpassed everyone's expectations. He recently was named grand champion competitive pleasure horse for the North American Trail Ride Conference for Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas.
Read more here:
http://newsok.com/edmond-woman-and-her-horse-ride-trail-to-success/article/3657682#ixzz1pIFIqj9b
Kris Hapgood and her horse Buddy are staples in the trail riding circuit, and now they both have the prizes to prove it.
By Vallery Brown | Published: March 15, 2012
EDMOND — When Kris Hapgood met her champion horse about 13 years ago, he was an abused, bay-color colt with a striking white blaze down his face. The young horse was barely trained and had been dubbed a “man eater” because he often tried to bite his male handlers.
Hapgood found the horse listed for sale in the newspaper for $800. It was anyone's guess what breed he was, but Hapgood saw potential in a horse many had all but written off.
“I saw something in his eyes,” said Hapgood, 51. “We've had a bond since that day.”
So far, the 16-year-old gelding named Heza Trouble Makin' Buddy, or Buddy for short, has surpassed everyone's expectations. He recently was named grand champion competitive pleasure horse for the North American Trail Ride Conference for Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas.
Read more here:
http://newsok.com/edmond-woman-and-her-horse-ride-trail-to-success/article/3657682#ixzz1pIFIqj9b
Tevis Cup Announces Legacy Buckle Program
Teviscup.org
March 9 2012
For First Time Tevis Riders
Finish the ride on August 4th or 5th, and receive a historic buckle from someone who completed decades ago. This buckle will be engraved with the rider’s name, horse’s name, and year of finish. It will be awarded to you at no charge.
For Multi‐time Finishers
You can wear only one buckle! Consider donating some of your other buckles back to WSTF to save money for finishers in 2012 and beyond. You will receive a charitable contribution receipt for tax purposes, as well as gratitude from the WSTF and the endurance riders of today.
For more information contact Kathie Perry, Chuck Stalley, Barbara White or wstf@teviscup.org.
March 9 2012
For First Time Tevis Riders
Finish the ride on August 4th or 5th, and receive a historic buckle from someone who completed decades ago. This buckle will be engraved with the rider’s name, horse’s name, and year of finish. It will be awarded to you at no charge.
For Multi‐time Finishers
You can wear only one buckle! Consider donating some of your other buckles back to WSTF to save money for finishers in 2012 and beyond. You will receive a charitable contribution receipt for tax purposes, as well as gratitude from the WSTF and the endurance riders of today.
For more information contact Kathie Perry, Chuck Stalley, Barbara White or wstf@teviscup.org.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
AERC Decade Teams are Now Official!
Enduranceridestuff Blog - Karen Chaton
At the March 2012 convention in Reno, NV last week, the AERC board of directors voted to approve a motion to make the Decade Teams an official award category!!!
This is great as it is a way to encourage riders to set long term goals for their horses in the sport of endurance. I think it’s great to have both short term and long term goals. Short term = what I want to accomplish this ride season. Long term = what I want to accomplish with the horse over the length of his career.
It has been great to see my idea take hold and become important to so many people. I think it’s wonderful that so many are choosing to make this a goal for themselves and for their horse. I never had any idea that the Decade Team idea would become popular enough to eventually become an official AERC award. For so many years I was told by many that the board would never vote to add on another award. What a nice surprise that they did, and that there was so much support for it!
Read more here:
http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2012/03/good-news-aerc-decade-teams-official/
At the March 2012 convention in Reno, NV last week, the AERC board of directors voted to approve a motion to make the Decade Teams an official award category!!!
This is great as it is a way to encourage riders to set long term goals for their horses in the sport of endurance. I think it’s great to have both short term and long term goals. Short term = what I want to accomplish this ride season. Long term = what I want to accomplish with the horse over the length of his career.
It has been great to see my idea take hold and become important to so many people. I think it’s wonderful that so many are choosing to make this a goal for themselves and for their horse. I never had any idea that the Decade Team idea would become popular enough to eventually become an official AERC award. For so many years I was told by many that the board would never vote to add on another award. What a nice surprise that they did, and that there was so much support for it!
Read more here:
http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2012/03/good-news-aerc-decade-teams-official/
Karen Chaton Interviewed on Stable Scoop HorseRadioNetwork
March 9 2012
Stable Scoop Episode 186
Endurance Riding with Karen Chaton as she explains the thrilling sport and the equipment that goes along. Plus, we chat up some cool helmet covers on Tack and Habit. Listen here:
http://stablescoop.horseradionetwork.com/2012/03/09/stable-scoop-episode-186-the-long-and-shiny/
Monday, March 12, 2012
The Standardbred endurance award winner announced
Harnesslink.com
10 March 2012
Harnesslink Admin
In May 2011, the USTA announced a partnership with the American Endurance Ride Conference to award the Standardbred that recorded the most miles ridden during the ride season. It is only fitting that the 2011 award winner was also a winner on the racetrack, East Meets West.
Patricia Clark of North Carolina now has East Meets West or "Eli" as he is affectionately known. The 7-year-old gelding by Western Paradise recorded one racing win at Plainridge Racecourse at the age of two and made $6,707. Clark got Eli from New Vocations Racehorse Adoption based in Ohio, and in 2009 they competed in their first endurance ride.
"It never fails when I attend an endurance ride with Eli, someone has to look him up and down and say, what kind of horse is that?," Clark says. "I wanted a horse that had a gentle temperament, athleticism, and the potential to have a variety of gaits. I found all of those in Eli. He has legs of iron from years of jogging on the racetrack. He can trot for hours at 10-13 mph and his bursts of speed dazzle the imagination."
During the 2011 ride season (Dec. 1, 2010-Nov. 30, 2011) Eli and Clark recorded 260 miles in sanctioned AERC rides. In total, 16 Standardbreds competed for the award. Winners of various awards will be honored at the AERC convention at the Grand Sierra Resort & Casino in Reno, Nev., on Saturday (March 10). While Clark was not able to make the trip West, she and Eli will be announced as winners by the emcees during the national awards banquet.
"I am deeply honored that my Eli is the first recipient of this prestigious honor," Clark said when told Eli would be the inaugural winner of the Standardbred Endurance Award. "He exudes everything that I love about Standardbreds and I can't think of a better representative for the breed and for ex-racehorses. I feel that this award has and will continue to encourage those of us competing on Standardbreds to continue in this sport."
Since 1996, the Standardbred Equine Program has worked with off-the-track Standardbreds and their owners to educate the general public on the many disciplines at which Standardbreds excel once they are retired from racing. For more information about the SEP at the USTA, visit standardbreds.ustrotting.com, or send e-mail inquiries to sep@ustrotting.com.
by Jessica Schroeder, U.S. Trotting Association Outreach
Courtesy of the US Trotting Association's Web Newsroom
10 March 2012
Harnesslink Admin
In May 2011, the USTA announced a partnership with the American Endurance Ride Conference to award the Standardbred that recorded the most miles ridden during the ride season. It is only fitting that the 2011 award winner was also a winner on the racetrack, East Meets West.
Patricia Clark of North Carolina now has East Meets West or "Eli" as he is affectionately known. The 7-year-old gelding by Western Paradise recorded one racing win at Plainridge Racecourse at the age of two and made $6,707. Clark got Eli from New Vocations Racehorse Adoption based in Ohio, and in 2009 they competed in their first endurance ride.
"It never fails when I attend an endurance ride with Eli, someone has to look him up and down and say, what kind of horse is that?," Clark says. "I wanted a horse that had a gentle temperament, athleticism, and the potential to have a variety of gaits. I found all of those in Eli. He has legs of iron from years of jogging on the racetrack. He can trot for hours at 10-13 mph and his bursts of speed dazzle the imagination."
During the 2011 ride season (Dec. 1, 2010-Nov. 30, 2011) Eli and Clark recorded 260 miles in sanctioned AERC rides. In total, 16 Standardbreds competed for the award. Winners of various awards will be honored at the AERC convention at the Grand Sierra Resort & Casino in Reno, Nev., on Saturday (March 10). While Clark was not able to make the trip West, she and Eli will be announced as winners by the emcees during the national awards banquet.
"I am deeply honored that my Eli is the first recipient of this prestigious honor," Clark said when told Eli would be the inaugural winner of the Standardbred Endurance Award. "He exudes everything that I love about Standardbreds and I can't think of a better representative for the breed and for ex-racehorses. I feel that this award has and will continue to encourage those of us competing on Standardbreds to continue in this sport."
Since 1996, the Standardbred Equine Program has worked with off-the-track Standardbreds and their owners to educate the general public on the many disciplines at which Standardbreds excel once they are retired from racing. For more information about the SEP at the USTA, visit standardbreds.ustrotting.com, or send e-mail inquiries to sep@ustrotting.com.
by Jessica Schroeder, U.S. Trotting Association Outreach
Courtesy of the US Trotting Association's Web Newsroom
Wednesday, March 07, 2012
"…but it wasn't the horse's fault!" - A New Book by Julie Suhr
Wednesday March 7 2012
Julie Suhr, author of "Ten Feet Tall, Still", has released a second book, titled, "…but it wasn't the horse's fault! - a rambling catchall."
With illustrations by Judith Ogus, readers can expect another insightful and delightful horse-inspired work from one of endurance riding's most passionate champions.
"Bob Suhr [Julie's husband] kept a file he referred to as a 'catchall' in which he placed things he could not exactly categorize," Julie says. "This book is my catchall, no continuity from chapter to chapter. It is just a series of reflections and recollections."
Each book comes with an E.R.J. (Endurance Ride Junkie) trailer decal designed by Steph Teeter, and all profits from the sale of this book go to The Center for Equine Health School of Veterinary Medicine in Davis, California.
Julie will be available for words of wisdom and autographs at the AERC convention in Reno this weekend, March 9-10, with copies of her book for sale at the EasyCare booth. If you can't get to the convention, you can purchase the book through Julie at:
Marinera Publishing
100 Marinera Road
Scotts Valley, CA 95066
marinera@aol.com
Fax & Tel: 831-335-5933
$24.95 plus $5 shipping and handling
For more more information, see
http://www.endurance.net/juliesuhr/
and
http://www.marinerapublishing.com/index.html
Tuesday, March 06, 2012
Henryville tornados and Clark State Forest horse trails with popular endurance rides
Photosbydemott.com - Full Article
by Peter Demott
Patty has participated in AERC sanctioned endurance rides in Clark State Forest for many years. Bill Wilson’s farm has provided camping for the events of both the Chicken Chase Endurance Ride and Top of the Rock Endurance ride that occur each year on the trails of Clark State Forest and draw many riders from Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky and even further away because these rides are so popular. In the fall there is another endurance ride there called Spook Run. Several people we know have been accounted for in that they were in other parts of the country when the devastating tornado’s came through Henryville, Indiana. We have not heard if their farms were affected by the storm or not, but here is one story which indicates that are many horses in the area affected.
http://www.louisville.com/content/horse-owners-lose-horses-march-2-tornadoes-some-lost-their-whole-herds-equine-news
A couple of years ago a tornado went through parts of the Clark State Forest and ride managers and volunteers were able to clear the trails so that the rides could occur, but with much of the town of Henryville wiped off the face of the earth, I am wondering what will happen to these two endurance rides. My wife, Patty has always told me how beautiful the vistas are that can be seen from the horse trails that make up the events. I usually provide photography for riders in these events, so although I see some of the trails, I don’t get the entire effect of riding 50 miles of trails.
We had just received the ride application flyer for Chicken Chase via email about a week or so ago, before the storm.
Help is pouring into the area from area churches and the Red Cross. Where as my photography of the area has always shown beautiful wooded trails and endurance riders coming down those trails, the photography that is being shown now are pictures of the town of Henryville and hillsides devoid of trees and piled with ruble.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/05/us-tornadoes-toddler-field-dies?newsfeed=true
More stories, photos, video here:
http://www.photosbypdemott.com/2012/03/henryville-tornados-and-clark-state-forest-horse-trails-with-popular-endurance-rides/
by Peter Demott
Patty has participated in AERC sanctioned endurance rides in Clark State Forest for many years. Bill Wilson’s farm has provided camping for the events of both the Chicken Chase Endurance Ride and Top of the Rock Endurance ride that occur each year on the trails of Clark State Forest and draw many riders from Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky and even further away because these rides are so popular. In the fall there is another endurance ride there called Spook Run. Several people we know have been accounted for in that they were in other parts of the country when the devastating tornado’s came through Henryville, Indiana. We have not heard if their farms were affected by the storm or not, but here is one story which indicates that are many horses in the area affected.
http://www.louisville.com/content/horse-owners-lose-horses-march-2-tornadoes-some-lost-their-whole-herds-equine-news
A couple of years ago a tornado went through parts of the Clark State Forest and ride managers and volunteers were able to clear the trails so that the rides could occur, but with much of the town of Henryville wiped off the face of the earth, I am wondering what will happen to these two endurance rides. My wife, Patty has always told me how beautiful the vistas are that can be seen from the horse trails that make up the events. I usually provide photography for riders in these events, so although I see some of the trails, I don’t get the entire effect of riding 50 miles of trails.
We had just received the ride application flyer for Chicken Chase via email about a week or so ago, before the storm.
Help is pouring into the area from area churches and the Red Cross. Where as my photography of the area has always shown beautiful wooded trails and endurance riders coming down those trails, the photography that is being shown now are pictures of the town of Henryville and hillsides devoid of trees and piled with ruble.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/05/us-tornadoes-toddler-field-dies?newsfeed=true
More stories, photos, video here:
http://www.photosbypdemott.com/2012/03/henryville-tornados-and-clark-state-forest-horse-trails-with-popular-endurance-rides/
Monday, March 05, 2012
Help Equine Tornado Victims
March 5 2012
Are you looking for a way to help the victims of Friday's tornadoes?
The Kentucky Horse Council is collecting donations for our U.S. Equine Disaster Relief Fund, which will help provide feed & supplies to horses affected by the tornadoes.
The U.S. Disaster Relief Fund exists to support state and local efforts to provide feed and housing for affected horses in natural disasters. We provide the funding to organizations such as a county extension service, and they in turn coordinate the relief efforts, such as purchasing hay, for owners/horses that need it.
We will be providing financial assistance to many organizations this week with the U.S. Disaster Relief Fund, and will need financial support to continue these efforts. If you would like to contribute to the fund, please click here to make a tax deductible donation: http://www.kentuckyhorse.org/disaster-relief/. The horses of Kentucky will thank you!
Do You or Your County Need Assistance?
If you are an individual looking for assistance due to last week's tornadoes, please contact our office at (859) 367-0509 or info@kentuckyhorse.org.
If you are a state or local agency who would like to help provide assistance to equines in your area, please click here for a printable pdf application form: http://www.kentuckyhorse.org/attachments/wysiwyg/5/US_Disaster_Relief_Application%281%29.pdf Fill out the form and send it back to our office, and we'll be glad to help.
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ABOUT THE KENTUCKY HORSE COUNCIL - The Kentucky Horse Council is a non-profit organization dedicated, through education and leadership, to the protection and development of the Kentucky equine community. The Kentucky Horse Council provides educational programs and information, outreach and communication to Kentucky horse owners and enthusiasts, equine professional networking opportunities through the Kentucky Equine Networking Association, the Kentucky Breeds & Discipline Council, trail riding advocacy, equine health information, programs protecting the welfare of horses, and membership benefits including a $1Million personal liability insurance.
Are you looking for a way to help the victims of Friday's tornadoes?
The Kentucky Horse Council is collecting donations for our U.S. Equine Disaster Relief Fund, which will help provide feed & supplies to horses affected by the tornadoes.
The U.S. Disaster Relief Fund exists to support state and local efforts to provide feed and housing for affected horses in natural disasters. We provide the funding to organizations such as a county extension service, and they in turn coordinate the relief efforts, such as purchasing hay, for owners/horses that need it.
We will be providing financial assistance to many organizations this week with the U.S. Disaster Relief Fund, and will need financial support to continue these efforts. If you would like to contribute to the fund, please click here to make a tax deductible donation: http://www.kentuckyhorse.org/disaster-relief/. The horses of Kentucky will thank you!
Do You or Your County Need Assistance?
If you are an individual looking for assistance due to last week's tornadoes, please contact our office at (859) 367-0509 or info@kentuckyhorse.org.
If you are a state or local agency who would like to help provide assistance to equines in your area, please click here for a printable pdf application form: http://www.kentuckyhorse.org/attachments/wysiwyg/5/US_Disaster_Relief_Application%281%29.pdf Fill out the form and send it back to our office, and we'll be glad to help.
________________________________________________________________________________
ABOUT THE KENTUCKY HORSE COUNCIL - The Kentucky Horse Council is a non-profit organization dedicated, through education and leadership, to the protection and development of the Kentucky equine community. The Kentucky Horse Council provides educational programs and information, outreach and communication to Kentucky horse owners and enthusiasts, equine professional networking opportunities through the Kentucky Equine Networking Association, the Kentucky Breeds & Discipline Council, trail riding advocacy, equine health information, programs protecting the welfare of horses, and membership benefits including a $1Million personal liability insurance.
Tornado trail damage cleanup - Henryville, Indiana
March 5
The Pekin Saddle club is organizing a couple of work weekends for clearing the trails in the Clark State Forest. BarbFurguson is the person to e-mail if you can help, please read her note below. The endurance rides in the area go past the saddle club, it is just a mile or so past Bill Wilson's place on the same road. Daniel Boone Distance Riders will have many more work days that will be out of Bill Wilson's farm, will keep you updated to the details when they become available any help will be much appreciated.
Connie Caudill
March 5
Clean up days for Tornado damage for Horse Trails, Jackson Road area that is betweenPekin Saddle Club and Deam Lake. March 10 & 11. Also March 18 and March 24 & 25. Headquarters will be Pekin Saddle Club for March 10 & 11. This area took a direct hit and looks very bad. Starting at 9:00am each day with sign in sheet and permits for ATV's, 4-Wheelers, tractors and skid loaders. Please let me know later in the week if you can come and help. More information as we we get it put together. Volunteers can come in on Friday evening if needed. Bring Horse trailers and stay overnight. More info later this week.
Barb Furguson
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You can also Volunteer your time, Give blood, or Donate money to the Red Cross at
http://www.redcross.org/
The Pekin Saddle club is organizing a couple of work weekends for clearing the trails in the Clark State Forest. BarbFurguson is the person to e-mail if you can help, please read her note below. The endurance rides in the area go past the saddle club, it is just a mile or so past Bill Wilson's place on the same road. Daniel Boone Distance Riders will have many more work days that will be out of Bill Wilson's farm, will keep you updated to the details when they become available any help will be much appreciated.
Connie Caudill
March 5
Clean up days for Tornado damage for Horse Trails, Jackson Road area that is betweenPekin Saddle Club and Deam Lake. March 10 & 11. Also March 18 and March 24 & 25. Headquarters will be Pekin Saddle Club for March 10 & 11. This area took a direct hit and looks very bad. Starting at 9:00am each day with sign in sheet and permits for ATV's, 4-Wheelers, tractors and skid loaders. Please let me know later in the week if you can come and help. More information as we we get it put together. Volunteers can come in on Friday evening if needed. Bring Horse trailers and stay overnight. More info later this week.
Barb Furguson
****
You can also Volunteer your time, Give blood, or Donate money to the Red Cross at
http://www.redcross.org/
Sunday, March 04, 2012
The Recreational Trails Program Needs Your Help -- Right Now!
Dear Members of the CRT Council of Advisors:
The Recreational Trails Program needs your help -- right now!
As soon as this Tuesday, March 6th, there will be action in the U.S. Senate on the transportation bill, also known as MAP-21 or S. 1813. We need to make sure that the Klobuchar amendment -- Amendment #1661 -- to protect the RTP and its dedicated funding is part of the final bill.
Seven Senators from both parties have agreed to join Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) to cosponsor the amendment: Michael Bennet (D-CO), Richard Burr (R-NC), James Risch (R-ID), Bernard Sanders (D-VT), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), and Mark Udall (D-CO). And we believe we have solid commitments of support from others.
That support is great news, but it’s not enough to ensure that the amendment is accepted. We need a clear majority of Senators pledged to supporting this amendment and willing to stand up for their trail-loving constituents, regardless of pressure from party leaders.
Please call or e-mail your Senators about the Klobuchar amendment. If one (or both -- congratulations, Colorado!) of your Senators is a sponsor, thank them for their support and ask for their active help with the amendment this week. If they have not yet agreed to support the amendment, ask for their pledge now. Tell them:
● Unless the bill is amended, MAP-21 will effectively eliminate the Recreational Trails Program and seriously damage, if not destroy, the balanced system of trails for all users that the RTP has allowed the states to develop and maintain over the last 20 years. The RTP leverages hundreds of millions of dollars of additional support from other sources for trails, encourages productive cooperation among trail users, and facilitates healthy outdoor recreation and associated, badly needed economic activity in countless communities. Without the RTP, organized trail planning and development will simply vanish in many areas of the country.
● Right now, at an annual funding level of $85 million, the RTP receives less than 42% of the federal gas taxes paid every year by America’s nonhighway recreationists. Unless amended, MAP-21 will convert a legitimate user fee into an unfair tax, with recreationists subsidizing commercial and private highway users.
● The return of gas taxes to trail users through the RTP is in keeping with the user-pay, user-benefit philosophy of the Highway Trust Fund. Ending dedicated funding for RTP takes these gas taxes away from the people who pay them. Ending dedicated funding for RTP is bad public policy and just plain wrong.
Don’t let anyone tell you that another amendment has taken care of the RTP. That is not true. We will let you know if anything like that happens.
If you don’t know how to reach your Senator, go to www.senate.gov. In the upper right corner of the Web page, there will be a link to contact information.
Your previous help has already made a very big difference.
● Close to 400 national, regional, state and local organizations signed letters to every single Senator supporting the Klobuchar amendment. You made that happen!
● Seven members of the Senate – Democrats and Republicans – agreed to cosponsor the Klobuchar amendment. You made that happen!
● And in the House of Representatives, Rep. Steve King withdrew his amendment to eliminate the RTP from the House bill. You made that happen!
So now we ask for your help again. You know how important the RTP is to your state.
Make sure your Senators know too.
Thank you very much.
Marianne Wesley Fowler and Derrick A. Crandall
Co-Chairs, Coalition for Recreational Trails
The Recreational Trails Program needs your help -- right now!
As soon as this Tuesday, March 6th, there will be action in the U.S. Senate on the transportation bill, also known as MAP-21 or S. 1813. We need to make sure that the Klobuchar amendment -- Amendment #1661 -- to protect the RTP and its dedicated funding is part of the final bill.
Seven Senators from both parties have agreed to join Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) to cosponsor the amendment: Michael Bennet (D-CO), Richard Burr (R-NC), James Risch (R-ID), Bernard Sanders (D-VT), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), and Mark Udall (D-CO). And we believe we have solid commitments of support from others.
That support is great news, but it’s not enough to ensure that the amendment is accepted. We need a clear majority of Senators pledged to supporting this amendment and willing to stand up for their trail-loving constituents, regardless of pressure from party leaders.
Please call or e-mail your Senators about the Klobuchar amendment. If one (or both -- congratulations, Colorado!) of your Senators is a sponsor, thank them for their support and ask for their active help with the amendment this week. If they have not yet agreed to support the amendment, ask for their pledge now. Tell them:
● Unless the bill is amended, MAP-21 will effectively eliminate the Recreational Trails Program and seriously damage, if not destroy, the balanced system of trails for all users that the RTP has allowed the states to develop and maintain over the last 20 years. The RTP leverages hundreds of millions of dollars of additional support from other sources for trails, encourages productive cooperation among trail users, and facilitates healthy outdoor recreation and associated, badly needed economic activity in countless communities. Without the RTP, organized trail planning and development will simply vanish in many areas of the country.
● Right now, at an annual funding level of $85 million, the RTP receives less than 42% of the federal gas taxes paid every year by America’s nonhighway recreationists. Unless amended, MAP-21 will convert a legitimate user fee into an unfair tax, with recreationists subsidizing commercial and private highway users.
● The return of gas taxes to trail users through the RTP is in keeping with the user-pay, user-benefit philosophy of the Highway Trust Fund. Ending dedicated funding for RTP takes these gas taxes away from the people who pay them. Ending dedicated funding for RTP is bad public policy and just plain wrong.
Don’t let anyone tell you that another amendment has taken care of the RTP. That is not true. We will let you know if anything like that happens.
If you don’t know how to reach your Senator, go to www.senate.gov. In the upper right corner of the Web page, there will be a link to contact information.
Your previous help has already made a very big difference.
● Close to 400 national, regional, state and local organizations signed letters to every single Senator supporting the Klobuchar amendment. You made that happen!
● Seven members of the Senate – Democrats and Republicans – agreed to cosponsor the Klobuchar amendment. You made that happen!
● And in the House of Representatives, Rep. Steve King withdrew his amendment to eliminate the RTP from the House bill. You made that happen!
So now we ask for your help again. You know how important the RTP is to your state.
Make sure your Senators know too.
Thank you very much.
Marianne Wesley Fowler and Derrick A. Crandall
Co-Chairs, Coalition for Recreational Trails
Saturday, March 03, 2012
Tevis Talks with Julie Suhr
March 3 2012
You are cordially invited to come share an intimate dinner and talk with Julie Suhr. Enjoy this special interactive event as this amazing woman shares her experiences.
The event will be held Thursday, March 29, 2012, 6:00pm in the Tahoe Building at the Auburn Gold Country Fairgrounds in Auburn, California. Tickets: Adults $20 (at the door $25), Children $7. Available at Echo Valley Ranch, Christensens, by contacting Leigh Bacco @ leighbacco@ymail.com, or through the WSTF office,
wstf@teviscup.org
Tel 530-823-7282
You are cordially invited to come share an intimate dinner and talk with Julie Suhr. Enjoy this special interactive event as this amazing woman shares her experiences.
The event will be held Thursday, March 29, 2012, 6:00pm in the Tahoe Building at the Auburn Gold Country Fairgrounds in Auburn, California. Tickets: Adults $20 (at the door $25), Children $7. Available at Echo Valley Ranch, Christensens, by contacting Leigh Bacco @ leighbacco@ymail.com, or through the WSTF office,
wstf@teviscup.org
Tel 530-823-7282
Tevis Reception at AERC Convention
March 3 2012
The Western States Trail Foundation and Western States Trail Endowment Fund invites you to attend their reception on Friday, March 9, 2012 at the Grand Sierra Resort and Casino, at the AERC Conference in Reno, Nevada.
Tevis Ride Director Chuck Stalley says, "The Board of Governors of the Western States Trail Foundation is announcing the implementation of the Legacy Buckle Program for this year’s ride. Details of this exciting new program will be shared at the reception on March 9th. This gathering has a reputation for being an impressive event with opportunities to spend time with heroes and villains of the Tevis organization. I hope to see you there and hear your Tevis stories."
In addition, there will be a showing of "They Crossed the Mountains," the history of the Western States Trail, and other endurance videos and historic videos.
Reception begins at 4:30 PM in the Tahoe Room.
See http://www.aerc.org/upload/2012ConventionFlyer.pdf for the AERC flyer.
See http://teviscup.org/images/reception.pdf for the WSTF flyer.
The Western States Trail Foundation and Western States Trail Endowment Fund invites you to attend their reception on Friday, March 9, 2012 at the Grand Sierra Resort and Casino, at the AERC Conference in Reno, Nevada.
Tevis Ride Director Chuck Stalley says, "The Board of Governors of the Western States Trail Foundation is announcing the implementation of the Legacy Buckle Program for this year’s ride. Details of this exciting new program will be shared at the reception on March 9th. This gathering has a reputation for being an impressive event with opportunities to spend time with heroes and villains of the Tevis organization. I hope to see you there and hear your Tevis stories."
In addition, there will be a showing of "They Crossed the Mountains," the history of the Western States Trail, and other endurance videos and historic videos.
Reception begins at 4:30 PM in the Tahoe Room.
See http://www.aerc.org/upload/2012ConventionFlyer.pdf for the AERC flyer.
See http://teviscup.org/images/reception.pdf for the WSTF flyer.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Springdale Romp enjoys warm weather
EACourier.com - Full Article
Posted: Sunday, February 26, 2012
contributed article
The second annual Springdale Romp Endurance Ride was held Feb. 3, 4 and 5.
Readers may remember that, last year, the ride faced the coldest weather in Arizona history. What a difference a year makes. This year, riders and horses enjoyed warm weather, good, well-marked trails and great facilities at the Graham County Fairgrounds.
The event began with riders “vetting in” their horses Thursday for Friday’s ride. At 6 p.m., a potluck dinner was held, with a ride meeting afterwards to explain trails and answer questions.
Riders came from Canada, Indiana, Kentucky, Texas, California, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. One rider, Ute Schrimpf, flew in that week from Germany just for Springdale Romp and went back Tuesday...
Read more here:
http://www.eacourier.com/news/springdale-romp-enjoys-warm-weather/article_e2ff86ba-6039-11e1-9fbe-0019bb2963f4.html
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Posted: Sunday, February 26, 2012
contributed article
The second annual Springdale Romp Endurance Ride was held Feb. 3, 4 and 5.
Readers may remember that, last year, the ride faced the coldest weather in Arizona history. What a difference a year makes. This year, riders and horses enjoyed warm weather, good, well-marked trails and great facilities at the Graham County Fairgrounds.
The event began with riders “vetting in” their horses Thursday for Friday’s ride. At 6 p.m., a potluck dinner was held, with a ride meeting afterwards to explain trails and answer questions.
Riders came from Canada, Indiana, Kentucky, Texas, California, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. One rider, Ute Schrimpf, flew in that week from Germany just for Springdale Romp and went back Tuesday...
Read more here:
http://www.eacourier.com/news/springdale-romp-enjoys-warm-weather/article_e2ff86ba-6039-11e1-9fbe-0019bb2963f4.html
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Friday, February 24, 2012
Maynesboro Stud Memorial Ride planning well underway
Berlindailysun.com
By Barbara Tetreault
Feb 24, 2012 12:00 am
BERLIN – The eyes of the horse world will be on Berlin this September when the Maynesboro Stud Memorial Ride is expected to draw endurance riders from across New England and beyond.
The event, being organized by the Berlin and Coos County Historical Society, celebrates the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Maynesboro Stud by William Robinson Brown. An avid horseman and endurance rider, Brown was considered the most important breeder of Arabian horses in the United States between 1912 and 1933. The lineage of Arabian horses he developed is still recognized today among horse breeders. Brown was also a member of the family that founded and operated the Brown Company paper mill complex in Berlin-Gorham.
Walter Nadeau, of the Berlin and Coos County Historical Society, said the planning for the Saturday, Sept. 15 event is well underway. While the 50-mile endurance race will be the main focus, there will also be a 25-mile ride and a 12-mile pleasure ride. The event is open to all breeds of horse although it is expected to be of particular interest to Arabian horse owners. Nadeau said the historical society is in the process of sending out fund-raising packets to area businesses and Arabian horse owners seeking donations to help offset the cost of putting on the event.
“I'm confident we'll get some major sponsors,” he said.
Nadeau said the historical society will also be applying to the Arabian Horse Association for a grant. He said he believes the various fund-raising efforts, combined with proceeds from the entry fee, will provide the necessary money to cover expenses.
The historical society is also seeking volunteers willing to help out with the event. Nadeau said he has contacted the UNH Extension Service to see if 4-H horse owners are interested in volunteering.
“I am going to need help,” he said.
The route for the endurance race has been set and Nadeau said he has received the necessary permission from 17 different landowners, including the state of New Hampshire. The race will started at the Brown Company barns on the East Milan Road where Brown raised his horses. From there the route will enter the woods across from the barns on property owned by Barry Kelley. The route will travel five miles on various wood roads and come out at White Mountain Lumber Company's saw mill. It will then travel along the East Milan Road, crossing the Androscoggin River at the Twelfth Street bridge, and traveling up Twelfth Street, connecting with the snowmobile system on Cates Hill. The From there, the route will continue to the Jericho Mountain State Park where it will run along the Head Pond section of the ATV trail system. The horses will follow the same route back, finishing at the Brown barns. Along the way, it will pass by the high school soccer field to coincide with Berlin High Homecoming festivities.
Nadeau said the goal of an endurance race to to provide a challenging course for the horses and said the route put together has some steep sections. Along the route, the horses must have three mandatory veterinarian stops - Two will be held at the Bisson Farm on Cates Hill and the third will come about 25 miles into the race. Including the mandatory stops, Nadeau said it will take riders six to eight hours to complete the ride.
Assisting the historical society in putting together the route have been Tom and Sandy Hutchinson of Bethel, Maine, who have competed in such events. The rides are sanctioned by the American Endurance Riders Conference and the Eastern Competitive Trail Ride Association.
Brown has one surviving child, Nancy Lee Snow of Falmouth, Maine, and she has pledged to try and make the event.
People interested in donating or volunteering for the Maynesboro Stud Memorial Ride should contact Nadeau at 752-7928 or e-mail wjnadeau@hotmail.com.
Picture (clockwise from right) W.R. Brown's premiere Arabian stallion, Abu Zeyd, which sired 46 foals. A current photo of the Maynesboro Stud Barn which housed Brown's Arabians. The Arabian horses outside the barn and in the fields. (Photos provided by the Berlin and Coos County Historical Society)
By Barbara Tetreault
Feb 24, 2012 12:00 am
BERLIN – The eyes of the horse world will be on Berlin this September when the Maynesboro Stud Memorial Ride is expected to draw endurance riders from across New England and beyond.
The event, being organized by the Berlin and Coos County Historical Society, celebrates the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Maynesboro Stud by William Robinson Brown. An avid horseman and endurance rider, Brown was considered the most important breeder of Arabian horses in the United States between 1912 and 1933. The lineage of Arabian horses he developed is still recognized today among horse breeders. Brown was also a member of the family that founded and operated the Brown Company paper mill complex in Berlin-Gorham.
Walter Nadeau, of the Berlin and Coos County Historical Society, said the planning for the Saturday, Sept. 15 event is well underway. While the 50-mile endurance race will be the main focus, there will also be a 25-mile ride and a 12-mile pleasure ride. The event is open to all breeds of horse although it is expected to be of particular interest to Arabian horse owners. Nadeau said the historical society is in the process of sending out fund-raising packets to area businesses and Arabian horse owners seeking donations to help offset the cost of putting on the event.
“I'm confident we'll get some major sponsors,” he said.
Nadeau said the historical society will also be applying to the Arabian Horse Association for a grant. He said he believes the various fund-raising efforts, combined with proceeds from the entry fee, will provide the necessary money to cover expenses.
The historical society is also seeking volunteers willing to help out with the event. Nadeau said he has contacted the UNH Extension Service to see if 4-H horse owners are interested in volunteering.
“I am going to need help,” he said.
The route for the endurance race has been set and Nadeau said he has received the necessary permission from 17 different landowners, including the state of New Hampshire. The race will started at the Brown Company barns on the East Milan Road where Brown raised his horses. From there the route will enter the woods across from the barns on property owned by Barry Kelley. The route will travel five miles on various wood roads and come out at White Mountain Lumber Company's saw mill. It will then travel along the East Milan Road, crossing the Androscoggin River at the Twelfth Street bridge, and traveling up Twelfth Street, connecting with the snowmobile system on Cates Hill. The From there, the route will continue to the Jericho Mountain State Park where it will run along the Head Pond section of the ATV trail system. The horses will follow the same route back, finishing at the Brown barns. Along the way, it will pass by the high school soccer field to coincide with Berlin High Homecoming festivities.
Nadeau said the goal of an endurance race to to provide a challenging course for the horses and said the route put together has some steep sections. Along the route, the horses must have three mandatory veterinarian stops - Two will be held at the Bisson Farm on Cates Hill and the third will come about 25 miles into the race. Including the mandatory stops, Nadeau said it will take riders six to eight hours to complete the ride.
Assisting the historical society in putting together the route have been Tom and Sandy Hutchinson of Bethel, Maine, who have competed in such events. The rides are sanctioned by the American Endurance Riders Conference and the Eastern Competitive Trail Ride Association.
Brown has one surviving child, Nancy Lee Snow of Falmouth, Maine, and she has pledged to try and make the event.
People interested in donating or volunteering for the Maynesboro Stud Memorial Ride should contact Nadeau at 752-7928 or e-mail wjnadeau@hotmail.com.
Picture (clockwise from right) W.R. Brown's premiere Arabian stallion, Abu Zeyd, which sired 46 foals. A current photo of the Maynesboro Stud Barn which housed Brown's Arabians. The Arabian horses outside the barn and in the fields. (Photos provided by the Berlin and Coos County Historical Society)
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Alabama Wagon Train prepares for 32nd annual ride to Montgomery, hopes it won't be the last
Blog.al.com - Full Story
February 21 2012
By Amber Acker, al.com
Montgomery Alabama - -- In a few weeks, riding enthusiasts from around the country will gather for an annual horseback and wagon ride that tours the natural landscape of Alabama, starting in Talladega and ending at the state rodeo in Montgomery.
For a generation, the Alabama Wagon Train has culminated at the Southeastern Livestock Exposition and Rodeo, with participants forgoing modern transportation in exchange for the chance to experience travel in the style of their ancestors.
Now, the Alabama Wagon Train faces hard times. A lack of sponsors, traffic issues and other problems may prevent the tradition from continuing after this year.
The last founding member and "train boss," Don Thomas, is retiring and the Sand Mountain Saddle Ranch is no longer able to sponsor the ride.
The train started in 1980 when a group of five men in the Sand Mountain Saddle Club decided to ride in wagons and on horseback to the exposition and rodeo instead of driving. While at the time it just seemed a chance to bond with each other and their animals, the idea soon spawned into a tradition that attracted horse enthusiasts from around the country.
"They had an idea to try it out and just do something different that grew from 40 riders to 72 wagons and 1,200 horses," said assistant train boss Ronnie Jones...
Read more here:
http://blog.al.com/montgomery/2012/02/the_alabama_wagon_train_prepar.html
February 21 2012
By Amber Acker, al.com
Montgomery Alabama - -- In a few weeks, riding enthusiasts from around the country will gather for an annual horseback and wagon ride that tours the natural landscape of Alabama, starting in Talladega and ending at the state rodeo in Montgomery.
For a generation, the Alabama Wagon Train has culminated at the Southeastern Livestock Exposition and Rodeo, with participants forgoing modern transportation in exchange for the chance to experience travel in the style of their ancestors.
Now, the Alabama Wagon Train faces hard times. A lack of sponsors, traffic issues and other problems may prevent the tradition from continuing after this year.
The last founding member and "train boss," Don Thomas, is retiring and the Sand Mountain Saddle Ranch is no longer able to sponsor the ride.
The train started in 1980 when a group of five men in the Sand Mountain Saddle Club decided to ride in wagons and on horseback to the exposition and rodeo instead of driving. While at the time it just seemed a chance to bond with each other and their animals, the idea soon spawned into a tradition that attracted horse enthusiasts from around the country.
"They had an idea to try it out and just do something different that grew from 40 riders to 72 wagons and 1,200 horses," said assistant train boss Ronnie Jones...
Read more here:
http://blog.al.com/montgomery/2012/02/the_alabama_wagon_train_prepar.html
Sunday, February 19, 2012
The Great Endurance Horse Race begins
Pagosasun.com - Full Article
By John Motter
PagosaSUN.com columnist
Thursday, February 16, 2012
We are continuing the story of The Great Endurance Horse Race, sponsored by the Denver Post in 1908.
One of the entrants was William H. (Billy) Kern, a pioneer of Pagosa Country.
It was six in the morning of May 27, 1908, when the Denver Post sponsoring train dubbed the “Pony Express” pulled into Evanston, Wyo., the starting point of the race.
The finish line was 600 miles away, in Denver.
Late season snow flurries covered the ground. Evanston seemed determined to set a new Wyoming record for rip-roaring Western hospitality.
Out of the freight cars came the horses, some loaded at Denver and others at various stops along the way.
Dick Turpin, a coal-black half-breed thoroughbred came out bucking and, with his rider, Jack Smith, the only entry from New Mexico put on a miniature rodeo for the enthusiastic crowd.
Adding to the excitement were two white broncos: Bob Brennan’s Luxus, and Otto Rush’s Scotty; and another thoroughbred called Archie. Almost unnoticed by the gaggle of reporters was a chunky strawberry roan, picked up in Severance, Colo., and led by a big, unassuming cowboy...
Read more here:
http://pagosasun.com/archives/2012/02February/021612/pagosapast.html
By John Motter
PagosaSUN.com columnist
Thursday, February 16, 2012
We are continuing the story of The Great Endurance Horse Race, sponsored by the Denver Post in 1908.
One of the entrants was William H. (Billy) Kern, a pioneer of Pagosa Country.
It was six in the morning of May 27, 1908, when the Denver Post sponsoring train dubbed the “Pony Express” pulled into Evanston, Wyo., the starting point of the race.
The finish line was 600 miles away, in Denver.
Late season snow flurries covered the ground. Evanston seemed determined to set a new Wyoming record for rip-roaring Western hospitality.
Out of the freight cars came the horses, some loaded at Denver and others at various stops along the way.
Dick Turpin, a coal-black half-breed thoroughbred came out bucking and, with his rider, Jack Smith, the only entry from New Mexico put on a miniature rodeo for the enthusiastic crowd.
Adding to the excitement were two white broncos: Bob Brennan’s Luxus, and Otto Rush’s Scotty; and another thoroughbred called Archie. Almost unnoticed by the gaggle of reporters was a chunky strawberry roan, picked up in Severance, Colo., and led by a big, unassuming cowboy...
Read more here:
http://pagosasun.com/archives/2012/02February/021612/pagosapast.html
Saturday, February 18, 2012
A horse story to beat them all
Pagosasun.com - Full Article
By John M. Motter
PagosaSUN.com columnist
Thursday, February 9, 2012
My favorite horse story was printed in a 1908 edition of the Denver Post.
My copy of the story was provided by Karen Hine, a descendant of Pagosa pioneer Maude Hart, whose son-in-law was Billy Kern. Both were Pagosa pioneers from the earliest days of settlement.
The Rocky Mountain West of the first decade of the 1900s still had a lot of Wild West character. Cars and trains and steamboats — even the Wright Brothers’ airplane — had all been invented. Still, horses were the main means of transportation “way out west.”
Everybody knows westerners loved a good horse race.
One-time famous cartoonist Homer Davenport was apparently a horse enthusiast. He happened to remark while visiting Denver that Arabian horses could travel farther and faster than any other breed.
Davenport’s remarks incited the Denver Post to promote a long distance race to see if Arabians really were better.
After much debate, conditions for the race were established.
Called the Great Endurance Race, the path stretched from Evanston in the southwest corner of Wyoming to Denver. It was a treacherous trail over the Continental Divide, some of the roughest of western terrain.
The race would start the morning of May 30, but all entries were due by midnight of the twentieth. The Post would charter a special train leaving Denver on the twenty-sixth to carry the riders and their horses assembled there and would pick up others at specific points along the way. Other expenses and all risks would be borne by the entrants.
There were prizes for the top six finishers; $500, $350, $200, $150, $100 and $50. An additional $300 in gold would be paid to the one finishing in the best condition...
Read more here:
http://pagosasun.com/archives/2012/02February/020912/pagosapast.html
By John M. Motter
PagosaSUN.com columnist
Thursday, February 9, 2012
My favorite horse story was printed in a 1908 edition of the Denver Post.
My copy of the story was provided by Karen Hine, a descendant of Pagosa pioneer Maude Hart, whose son-in-law was Billy Kern. Both were Pagosa pioneers from the earliest days of settlement.
The Rocky Mountain West of the first decade of the 1900s still had a lot of Wild West character. Cars and trains and steamboats — even the Wright Brothers’ airplane — had all been invented. Still, horses were the main means of transportation “way out west.”
Everybody knows westerners loved a good horse race.
One-time famous cartoonist Homer Davenport was apparently a horse enthusiast. He happened to remark while visiting Denver that Arabian horses could travel farther and faster than any other breed.
Davenport’s remarks incited the Denver Post to promote a long distance race to see if Arabians really were better.
After much debate, conditions for the race were established.
Called the Great Endurance Race, the path stretched from Evanston in the southwest corner of Wyoming to Denver. It was a treacherous trail over the Continental Divide, some of the roughest of western terrain.
The race would start the morning of May 30, but all entries were due by midnight of the twentieth. The Post would charter a special train leaving Denver on the twenty-sixth to carry the riders and their horses assembled there and would pick up others at specific points along the way. Other expenses and all risks would be borne by the entrants.
There were prizes for the top six finishers; $500, $350, $200, $150, $100 and $50. An additional $300 in gold would be paid to the one finishing in the best condition...
Read more here:
http://pagosasun.com/archives/2012/02February/020912/pagosapast.html
Friday, February 17, 2012
Vintage grad Graham, horse Monk among finishers in Abu Dhabi
Napavalleyregister.com - Full Article
ANDY WILCOX | Posted: Thursday, February 16, 2012
Lindsay Graham rode 10-year-old gelding Monk to a 32nd-place finish in the annual 100-mile President’s Cup Endurance Ride on Saturday in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates.
Graham, a veterinarian at Napa Valley Veterinary Hospital, said only 46 of 140 starters finished the prestigious event.
The 2000 Vintage High School graduate went into the six-loop race planning to ride at a competitive but comfortable pace.
She wanted to make sure Monk, owned by Chris Martin of Penn Valley, would come home healthy and be ready for their bigger goal — a successful tryout next month in Texas for the biannual World Endurance Championship that will be held in England in August.
Graham and Monk finished in 8 hours, 53 minutes.
The only other American invited to the race, four-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion Doug Swingley of Montana, finished 38th.
“The race went really well,” Graham said. “The day went as I had hoped for, to start off in the back and keep a steady but slowly increasing pace throughout the day...
Read more here:
http://napavalleyregister.com/sports/vintage-grad-graham-horse-monk-among-finishers-in-abu-dhabi/article_a1cc7a28-5935-11e1-9ccc-001871e3ce6c.html
ANDY WILCOX | Posted: Thursday, February 16, 2012
Lindsay Graham rode 10-year-old gelding Monk to a 32nd-place finish in the annual 100-mile President’s Cup Endurance Ride on Saturday in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates.
Graham, a veterinarian at Napa Valley Veterinary Hospital, said only 46 of 140 starters finished the prestigious event.
The 2000 Vintage High School graduate went into the six-loop race planning to ride at a competitive but comfortable pace.
She wanted to make sure Monk, owned by Chris Martin of Penn Valley, would come home healthy and be ready for their bigger goal — a successful tryout next month in Texas for the biannual World Endurance Championship that will be held in England in August.
Graham and Monk finished in 8 hours, 53 minutes.
The only other American invited to the race, four-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion Doug Swingley of Montana, finished 38th.
“The race went really well,” Graham said. “The day went as I had hoped for, to start off in the back and keep a steady but slowly increasing pace throughout the day...
Read more here:
http://napavalleyregister.com/sports/vintage-grad-graham-horse-monk-among-finishers-in-abu-dhabi/article_a1cc7a28-5935-11e1-9ccc-001871e3ce6c.html
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Jane Beshear Announces Over $1.8 Million for Recreational Trails Projects
Surfky.com
Governors Communication Office
15 February 2012 14:37
FRANKFORT, KY (2/15/12) – First Lady Jane Beshear joined Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet Secretary Marcheta Sparrow and Department for Local Government (DLG) Commissioner Tony Wilder to announce more than $1.8 million in grants to local communities to develop and maintain recreational trails across Kentucky.
The total of $1,849,648 in federal grant dollars will go to 38 applicants for hiking, biking, horseback riding and other types of trails as part of the Federal Highway Administration’s Recreational Trails Program (RTP). The applicants include city and county government as well as state and federal agencies.
“Developing Kentucky trails is instrumental in increasing overall adventure tourism efforts and boosting local economies throughout the state,” said Mrs. Beshear. “These federal funds help communities get trail projects off the ground so they can bring in tourism dollars and provide areas for their citizens to be active and live healthier lifestyles.”
At the event, Mrs. Beshear also recognized award recipients from last year’s Mid America Trails and Greenway (MATAG) conference. Lynda Bray Schaffer was recognized for being an outstanding volunteer to help expand trials in Kentucky and the Legacy Trail in Lexington was recognized for being and outstanding trail or greenway in Kentucky.
RTP is funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration. Kentucky’s RTP grants are administered by DLG and require that applicants match the amount of funds requested. The grants may be used to provide assistance for acquisition of easements; development and/or maintenance of recreational trails; and trailhead facilities for both motorized and non-motorized use. Examples of trail uses include hiking, bicycling, inline skating, equestrian use, off-road motorcycling and all-terrain vehicle riding.
FY11 applicants that have been approved for RTP project grants include:
Read more here:
http://surfky.com/index.php/component/content/article/235-statewide-kentucky-news/10784-jane-beshear-announces-over-18-million-for-recreational-trails-projects-
Governors Communication Office
15 February 2012 14:37
FRANKFORT, KY (2/15/12) – First Lady Jane Beshear joined Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet Secretary Marcheta Sparrow and Department for Local Government (DLG) Commissioner Tony Wilder to announce more than $1.8 million in grants to local communities to develop and maintain recreational trails across Kentucky.
The total of $1,849,648 in federal grant dollars will go to 38 applicants for hiking, biking, horseback riding and other types of trails as part of the Federal Highway Administration’s Recreational Trails Program (RTP). The applicants include city and county government as well as state and federal agencies.
“Developing Kentucky trails is instrumental in increasing overall adventure tourism efforts and boosting local economies throughout the state,” said Mrs. Beshear. “These federal funds help communities get trail projects off the ground so they can bring in tourism dollars and provide areas for their citizens to be active and live healthier lifestyles.”
At the event, Mrs. Beshear also recognized award recipients from last year’s Mid America Trails and Greenway (MATAG) conference. Lynda Bray Schaffer was recognized for being an outstanding volunteer to help expand trials in Kentucky and the Legacy Trail in Lexington was recognized for being and outstanding trail or greenway in Kentucky.
RTP is funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration. Kentucky’s RTP grants are administered by DLG and require that applicants match the amount of funds requested. The grants may be used to provide assistance for acquisition of easements; development and/or maintenance of recreational trails; and trailhead facilities for both motorized and non-motorized use. Examples of trail uses include hiking, bicycling, inline skating, equestrian use, off-road motorcycling and all-terrain vehicle riding.
FY11 applicants that have been approved for RTP project grants include:
Read more here:
http://surfky.com/index.php/component/content/article/235-statewide-kentucky-news/10784-jane-beshear-announces-over-18-million-for-recreational-trails-projects-
Friday, February 10, 2012
OT Sara Moniet RSI is 2011 AHA Distance Horse of the Year
Equisearch.com - Full Article
February 9, 2012 -- OT Sara Moniet RSI (Rave On Ravenwood x OT Dysara RSI), a 2004 dark chestnut owned by M.A. “Crockett” Dumas of Escalante, Utah was named the Arabian Horse Association (AHA) 2011 Distance Horse of the Year, adding one more award to a long list of 2011 accomplishments.
“Sara” covered 1,675 competition miles in 2011, completing 31 of 31 rides with 10 overall wins and 9 Best Conditions. The 7 year-old mare won two 200-mile rides, one 165-miler, one 155-miler, and finished all but one of her rides in the Top Ten. Coupled with Distance Horse of the Year honors, Sara was named the AHA High Point 50-99 mile Endurance horse. The American Endurance Ride Conference (AERC) awarded Sara the War Mare Award and the Belesemo Arabians Pioneer Award for the Heavyweight Division. Lastly, Sara was awarded the Drinkers of the Wind performance award by the Institute of the Desert Arabian Horse.
“Well everybody thinks their horse is the greatest horse in the world,” says Crockett Dumas. “But she is really a great all-around horse. I bred her and her mother and father … after riding 37,500 miles, I don’t spend a lot of time on good horses. She’s a great horse...”
Read more here:
http://www.equisearch.com/news/ot-sara-moniet-rsi-is-2011-aha-distance-horse-of-the-year/
February 9, 2012 -- OT Sara Moniet RSI (Rave On Ravenwood x OT Dysara RSI), a 2004 dark chestnut owned by M.A. “Crockett” Dumas of Escalante, Utah was named the Arabian Horse Association (AHA) 2011 Distance Horse of the Year, adding one more award to a long list of 2011 accomplishments.
“Sara” covered 1,675 competition miles in 2011, completing 31 of 31 rides with 10 overall wins and 9 Best Conditions. The 7 year-old mare won two 200-mile rides, one 165-miler, one 155-miler, and finished all but one of her rides in the Top Ten. Coupled with Distance Horse of the Year honors, Sara was named the AHA High Point 50-99 mile Endurance horse. The American Endurance Ride Conference (AERC) awarded Sara the War Mare Award and the Belesemo Arabians Pioneer Award for the Heavyweight Division. Lastly, Sara was awarded the Drinkers of the Wind performance award by the Institute of the Desert Arabian Horse.
“Well everybody thinks their horse is the greatest horse in the world,” says Crockett Dumas. “But she is really a great all-around horse. I bred her and her mother and father … after riding 37,500 miles, I don’t spend a lot of time on good horses. She’s a great horse...”
Read more here:
http://www.equisearch.com/news/ot-sara-moniet-rsi-is-2011-aha-distance-horse-of-the-year/
Thursday, February 09, 2012
Foiled by Paperwork, Steven Hay Selected for, Misses Young Rider Endurance Worlds
Pennsylvaniaequestrian.com - Full Article
February 2012 - by Suzanne Bush
When Steven Hay was just six years old, he knew that he was in love with horses. He rode horses at his grandmother’s farm, and spent several years taking advantage of all the opportunities available to a young rider, such as showing and 4H. But he was hungry for more. “When I was younger I had showed, and I did 4H and it wasn’t my cup of tea. I didn’t feel like going in the show ring and riding around in a circle. It didn’t test us. It wasn’t enough.”
Hay, a 21 year-old junior at Penn State University, sought the kinds of equestrian competitions that would challenge him and his horses both mentally and physically. He got involved in competitive trail riding, “then I got into endurance and distance riding and that was it.”
The Port Matilda resident loves the challenge of conditioning a horse for competition, and preparing himself and the horse mentally for the races. He was named to the first ever United States team competing at the FEI Junior and Young Rider World Endurance Championship, which was held in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in December. Although he has been competing in endurance races since 2005, Hay has achieved enviable success. In 2010 he placed eighth out of 79 competitors in the Biltmore FEI 50, and fifth in the Canter Over the Mountain Endurance Competition. That same year he was on the gold medal team at the North American Champions, where he was also the Individual Bronze Medalist...
Read more here:
http://www.pennsylvaniaequestrian.com/news2012/february/Steven-Hay-Selected-for-Misses-Young-Rider-Endurance-Worlds.php
February 2012 - by Suzanne Bush
When Steven Hay was just six years old, he knew that he was in love with horses. He rode horses at his grandmother’s farm, and spent several years taking advantage of all the opportunities available to a young rider, such as showing and 4H. But he was hungry for more. “When I was younger I had showed, and I did 4H and it wasn’t my cup of tea. I didn’t feel like going in the show ring and riding around in a circle. It didn’t test us. It wasn’t enough.”
Hay, a 21 year-old junior at Penn State University, sought the kinds of equestrian competitions that would challenge him and his horses both mentally and physically. He got involved in competitive trail riding, “then I got into endurance and distance riding and that was it.”
The Port Matilda resident loves the challenge of conditioning a horse for competition, and preparing himself and the horse mentally for the races. He was named to the first ever United States team competing at the FEI Junior and Young Rider World Endurance Championship, which was held in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in December. Although he has been competing in endurance races since 2005, Hay has achieved enviable success. In 2010 he placed eighth out of 79 competitors in the Biltmore FEI 50, and fifth in the Canter Over the Mountain Endurance Competition. That same year he was on the gold medal team at the North American Champions, where he was also the Individual Bronze Medalist...
Read more here:
http://www.pennsylvaniaequestrian.com/news2012/february/Steven-Hay-Selected-for-Misses-Young-Rider-Endurance-Worlds.php
Tuesday, February 07, 2012
An endurance riding queen
Examiner.com - Full Article
Jennifer Allen
Princeton Horse Examiner
“If I were in a bar fight I would want Brian Urlacher, Jared Allen, and Grace Ramsey.” Many people know the first two people; few outside of the endurance world know the third. And the author of the phrase is known by the community she lives in and surrounds herself by—Lori Windows.
Born in Canada, raised in Bloomington, taught in Indianapolis, working in Princeton, and living in Wyanet, IL, Windows wastes no time living her life. From an early age she always had to be busy, always had to be saving money for her first horse, Chico. A Mr. Fowler set her on horses and said “You’re not getting a saddle until you learn how to ride,” then would hide out in the woods to scare the horse and dump the rider.
Now sixty one, one would think Windows would start slowing down. Try telling that to her face and you will get an emphatic “No! Why would I want to slow down? So I can get old and decrepit?” She still works as a veterinary technician at Bureau Valley Veterinary Service (Princeton, IL), travels the world, dives with rays and sharks, and rides those horses and mules...
Read more here:
http://www.examiner.com/horse-in-peoria/an-endurance-riding-queen
Jennifer Allen
Princeton Horse Examiner
“If I were in a bar fight I would want Brian Urlacher, Jared Allen, and Grace Ramsey.” Many people know the first two people; few outside of the endurance world know the third. And the author of the phrase is known by the community she lives in and surrounds herself by—Lori Windows.
Born in Canada, raised in Bloomington, taught in Indianapolis, working in Princeton, and living in Wyanet, IL, Windows wastes no time living her life. From an early age she always had to be busy, always had to be saving money for her first horse, Chico. A Mr. Fowler set her on horses and said “You’re not getting a saddle until you learn how to ride,” then would hide out in the woods to scare the horse and dump the rider.
Now sixty one, one would think Windows would start slowing down. Try telling that to her face and you will get an emphatic “No! Why would I want to slow down? So I can get old and decrepit?” She still works as a veterinary technician at Bureau Valley Veterinary Service (Princeton, IL), travels the world, dives with rays and sharks, and rides those horses and mules...
Read more here:
http://www.examiner.com/horse-in-peoria/an-endurance-riding-queen
Sunday, February 05, 2012
Vintage grad one of two Americans chosen to compete in 100-mile Abu Dhabi race
ANDY WILCOX | Posted: Saturday, February 4, 2012
Lindsay Graham is excited about her latest chance to team up with 10-year-old gelding Monk, the horse she rode for a North American-record time for 100 miles last summer.
The 2000 Vintage High graduate is one of only two Americans who have been invited to compete in the annual President of the UAE Endurance Ride in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on Feb. 11.
Despite her record last summer, and fourth-place finish in the North American Endurance Championships in Greenville, Calif. — just north of Truckee — in September, Graham isn’t planning to push Monk as hard as she can to claim a victory in the Middle East.
This is just the first race of a year she expects to be busy.
“What our goal is this year,” she said of herself and Monk’s owner, Chris Martin of Penn Valley, “is to make it to the World Endurance Championship in England in August, and we have trial for that, a tryout, at the end of March in Texas. So I have to be careful. If Monk has a problem over there he might be out for the tryout. So I’m going to use it as a really good conditioning ride and work on a good pace. He’s still going to be working, but we’re not going to be out there racing for the win. We’re going to go out there and do the best we can but also enjoy the experience...”
Read more here:
http://napavalleyregister.com/sports/vintage-grad-one-of-two-americans-chosen-to-compete-in/article_1e1fca6c-4fc2-11e1-85eb-001871e3ce6c.html
Friday, February 03, 2012
Airport Express is This Weekend
fly2houston.com - Full Article
January 30, 2012
The 2nd Annual "Airport Express Endurance Ride" will take place on February 4 and February 5.
Almost a hundred horseback riders are set to take off through the scenic trails of George Bush Intercontinental Airport, as the 2nd Annual “Airport Express Endurance Ride” gets underway.
The event will take place on Saturday, February 4 and Sunday, February 5, 2011. Riders traveling 50 miles will see a start time of 7:30 a.m., while the 25 mile riders will begin at 8:00 a.m. All riders need to check-in at least 15 minutes prior to their start time. A dinner, with musical entertainment provided, will begin at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, February 3 and Saturday, February 4. Both the dinner and the musical entertainment are free of charge.
“The two day event features a 25 and 50 mile ride on each day throughout 13,000 acres of groomed riding trails at George Bush Intercontinental Airport,” says Ronnie Pickard, director of strategic constituent planning & special projects for the Houston Airport System.
EEndurance riding is an athletic event for both horse and rider. The goal is to complete the marked trail within the time given, as established by the American Endurance Ride Conference standards. All horses must pass a complete veterinary check before, during and after the ride.
In addition, a 10+ mile “Fun Ride” is simultaneously hosted for those that are novice riders and would like to find out more about the sport of Endurance. They also become more familiar with the beautiful airport trails and the Airport Ranger program.
“As a volunteer Airport Ranger we provide a low-key, additional layer of security,” said Darolyn Butler, Airport Express Ride Manager and Airport Ranger. “After a rigorous background check, we get a chance to ride in some of the most breathtaking areas of the state.”
The event raises funds for Houston based charitable 501 (c) (3) organizations, SIRE – Houston’s Therapeutic Equestrian Centers and the HAS Interfaith Chapels. This year marks a meaningful addition, making it the first of three commemorative rides in the Texas Mortl Challenge Series honoring April Mortl.
A variety of activities will also take place each day including educational demonstrations showcasing SIRE and Houston Police Department Mounted Patrol.
For more information, visit fly2houston.com/airportexpress
January 30, 2012
The 2nd Annual "Airport Express Endurance Ride" will take place on February 4 and February 5.
Almost a hundred horseback riders are set to take off through the scenic trails of George Bush Intercontinental Airport, as the 2nd Annual “Airport Express Endurance Ride” gets underway.
The event will take place on Saturday, February 4 and Sunday, February 5, 2011. Riders traveling 50 miles will see a start time of 7:30 a.m., while the 25 mile riders will begin at 8:00 a.m. All riders need to check-in at least 15 minutes prior to their start time. A dinner, with musical entertainment provided, will begin at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, February 3 and Saturday, February 4. Both the dinner and the musical entertainment are free of charge.
“The two day event features a 25 and 50 mile ride on each day throughout 13,000 acres of groomed riding trails at George Bush Intercontinental Airport,” says Ronnie Pickard, director of strategic constituent planning & special projects for the Houston Airport System.
EEndurance riding is an athletic event for both horse and rider. The goal is to complete the marked trail within the time given, as established by the American Endurance Ride Conference standards. All horses must pass a complete veterinary check before, during and after the ride.
In addition, a 10+ mile “Fun Ride” is simultaneously hosted for those that are novice riders and would like to find out more about the sport of Endurance. They also become more familiar with the beautiful airport trails and the Airport Ranger program.
“As a volunteer Airport Ranger we provide a low-key, additional layer of security,” said Darolyn Butler, Airport Express Ride Manager and Airport Ranger. “After a rigorous background check, we get a chance to ride in some of the most breathtaking areas of the state.”
The event raises funds for Houston based charitable 501 (c) (3) organizations, SIRE – Houston’s Therapeutic Equestrian Centers and the HAS Interfaith Chapels. This year marks a meaningful addition, making it the first of three commemorative rides in the Texas Mortl Challenge Series honoring April Mortl.
A variety of activities will also take place each day including educational demonstrations showcasing SIRE and Houston Police Department Mounted Patrol.
For more information, visit fly2houston.com/airportexpress
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