Ridecamp: Re: [RC] [RC] showhorse/endurance horse?

I know it is possible.  When my stallion was 7 years old he had been showed extensivelivly in working cow, stock horse, reining and hunt seat pleasure, not to mention halter as a youngster.  I had been riding endurance since 1976 and it was my first love.  So I decided to take him on the XP ride in the fall of 1988.  I got him home form the trainer in August, now minde you he had never  been on a trail before in his life.  He did great and finished the first and last day of that XP.  This was in the days when it was a point to point.  Unfortunately the following June while at a horse show he showed signs of colic and underwent entrolith surgery.  The surgery was successful but I felt that the risks were just too great to risk any further endurance riding.  He was shown for 2 more years and is alive and happy today at the ripe old age of  20.  Good luck to you and show your horse.

 

Corky Young

 

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From: Allegra

Date: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 05:56:42 PM

To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: Re: [RC] showhorse/endurance horse?

 

    Yes, though I have not ridden in an actual endurance ride, I'm still training and ride about 15 miles a shot with my boy. Can't wait till I can go to and actual ride. But I have shown him. I think its great to take an endurance horse and show them. Taking a show horse and trying to do endurance with them on the other hand.... well.

 

 Allegra.

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From: Sundaez@xxxxxxx

To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 3:46 PM

Subject: [RC] showhorse/endurance horse?

Hi all....does anyone both show and ride distance on their horse? I'm
thinking of showing one of my guys. (He has been shown before we got into
this distance riding thing <g>).  He just did his first LD (and did quite
well). I'd still like to show him occasionally. There is a show coming up the
week after his next LD. Any thoughts? BTW will be a few performance classes.

Melanie Snowhite
Poway, CA.
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