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

On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 15:54:24 -0600, Joe Long <jlong@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>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.

Oh, for those folks who may not know, he has 11,525 AERC miles
completed, over 10,000 miles of Top Ten, over 9,000 miles of Top Five,
49 BC's and more than 50 first places.  His last 100-mile First Place
and BC came at age 18.  I made the comment that day that the
"over-the-hill horse could still get over the hills in style."



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