Ridecamp: Re: [RC] The Aging Equine Athlete!

On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 15:37:08 EDT, KathyZ1@xxxxxxx wrote:

>Does anyone know of other older horses who have continued their careers long 
>after many folks would have had them down for the count??  Who are they?  Who 
>rode them?  When?  Has anyone here actually ridden rides with/on an older 
>Equine Athlete?? Who was the oldest you've seen??

Kahlil did his last 50 mile ride, in seven hours, at age 24.  He's 29
now but we don't ride him any more.  Within the past year he started
showing soreness the next day after being ridden, so we fully retired
him.



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