The Tevis Cup, sanctioned by AERC, is one of the more challenging endurance races--100 miles in one day through rough terrain from Squaw Valley to Auburn CA. In the video below, you can review the entire course in 7 minutes. In 2014, over 9000 riders with a completion rate of 54%. The winning ride took 13 hours and 50 minutes with 2 mandatory 1 hour rest stops and multiple vet checks. Riders were almost exactly evenly divided between men and women. To be awarded a silver completion award, the ride must be finished within 24 hours and the horse must pass a final vet check.
If I remember correctly, John Parke and Remington competed in Tevis several times and made the vet check but did not meet the 24-hour deadline.
As a little girl, I always wanted a pony for Christmas. Santa never brought me a pony. So in my late 40s, I started taking horseback riding lessons. When I turned 50, I got my first horse, an Icelandic named Blessi (Veigar frá Búðardal). Little did I know how much fun life with an Icelandic was going to be. Blessi has a unique perspective on life. I hope you enjoy reading about it as much as I enjoy Blessi. And you will probably read about my cats from time to time.
Pages
- Postings
- Jules Verne & Icelandic Horse
- Icelandic Pony in William Morris' Kitchen
- Icelandic Horse Books
- Icelandic Breeding Standards
- Best of Blessi Stories
- Is this trotty, pacey or clear tolt or rack
- MCOA Hereditary Eye Defect in Silver Dapples
- Bone Spavin in the Icelandic Horse
- Laminitis
- Velkomin, Bienvenu--How to translate Blessiblog
- MtDNA Origins of the Icelandic Horse
- Icelandic Horse Twins--A Wonderful and Cautionary Tale
- Using World Fengur
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