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David asked the question and at my request Bob Morris ran 
the statistics below.  There have been roughly 18,000 horses 
listed in the database from 1984.  Of these - about 4,850 of 
them have at least 1,000 miles.

MILES                   HORSES  
1000-1999               2928    
2000-2999               1053    
3000-3999               464
Greater than 5,000      145
10000-11,000            3

Greater than 10,000	7

The horses with greater than 5,000 are all listed at

http://www.aerc.org/Membership_Awards_5K.asp

Bottom line is that there are 4850 of about 18,000 or 1 in 4 
have at least 1,000 miles.  About 1 in 9 has at least 2,000 
miles.  About 1 in 20 has 3K miles or greater.

I think that's pretty impressive.

Mike


David LeBlanc wrote:

> Heidi recently said that 1000 mile horses were fairly common. I'd dispute
> the dime a dozen bit - that's 20 50's which amounts to over $1200 in ride
> fees alone! But it did make me curious - how many horses make it to 1000
> miles? 2000? What proportion of riders make it to 1000 miles?
>
> I've found the columns on various statistics of our group interesting, and
> this is something I'd like to know.
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The very essence of our sport is doing the trail as quickly as practicable,
while keeping one's horse fit to continue.  Taking the clock out of the
equation makes it another sport altogether.  The challenge is how to keep
the sport what it is while honing our skills (both as riders and as those
in control roles) in detecting where "the edge" is for each horse so that
we don't cross it. 
~  Heidi Smith
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