Tevis Cup 2010, by Chris LIttlefield, distance rider! 

A Tevis completion does not require a super horse with a super rider. It requires a well conditioned horse of almost any breed with a rider who has her head screwed on right and a big dream inside it. ~ Julie Suhr

A Simple Statement ~ I ride ~

 --Author Unknown--(although, many of us feel she is our sister)

Tevis Bound…

FIRES???

Let's make that THE BIG HORN or Bust!

       Well over a year ago, I started thinking about attempting Tevis...

LONG-DISTANCE RIDING.

The long-distance ride of the Austrian and Prussian officers, with its fatal sequel for the poor animals ridden by them, has brought country, and many more could doubtless be added, were not the human performers men not familiar with the use of the pen, or unaccustomed to having their actions made matters of record by the press. Some such incidents came directly under the notice of the writer during years of service on the frontier; others were related to him by  persons familiar with the facts and were alluded to in course of conversations as though they were ordinary events of everyday life. In June, 1868, a man named Morris rode from Saguache, then a small settlement at the head of the San Luis Park, Colorado, to Fort Garland, nearly one hundred miles, between three o’clock a. m., and half past one o’clock p. m., the same day (ten and a half hours).

IN THE SADDLE

Recreation in the saddle fills a want that is not met by other recreations. The wheel encounters many obstacles in rough, stony, mountainous country; a canoe loses the finest or wildest pl aces, unless in the Adirondacks;  Carriage-riding is devoid of the desired exercise; walking would hit the mark, if it were not too slow and exhausting; but to the horseman almost every pathway is accessible, the unbridged stream is a pleasure. The exercise is full, though not exhausting, and, taking all the most attractive portions of the country into account,  here is open to him the greatest possible variety of pleasant experiences.

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LONG-DISTANCE RIDING IN THE AMERICAN ARMY

By MAJOR HENRY ROMEYN, U.S.A.

FELIX N. AUBREY was a Canadian by birth, of French extraction, and prior to the Mexican War had been in New Mexico as trapper and hunter with Beaubien, Maxwell, and others, and was well acquainted with the plains, as well as along the mountains, from Winnipeg to Santa Fé; and even south of that place. When Tobin’s ride from  Santa Fé to Fort Leavenworth, in August, 1846, had made him known all over the territory, Aubrey asserted that the time he had required could be reduced one-third; and when doubts were expressed, offered to back his opinion with his money. 

What I Have Learned From Endurance Rides

By: Monica Rawson

Endurance riding is not for the weak at heart. Endurance riding has challenged me more than any other equine sport, from show jumping, dressage, foxhunts to cross country.

 A Competitive Trail Ride to Remember