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When I've looked at the database I find a lot of entries of  horses with no ID. That is they are not on record with the AERC. It is impossible to tell how many horses are represented by this entry since they have no internal ID they are going to be lumped as one by any S/W.  I know several people that do a ride or two or three a year but don't join the AERC and some people that don't bother to register their horses. So while there are 18,000 horses that are traceable in the database, that doesn't answer the question of how many horses have started an endurance career and for what ever reason didn't make it.

The 18,000 are those horses that have ID's and can be tracked (isn't that the case, Mike). So it's difficult to say in reality if it is 18 K, 20 K, or 25 K horses that have at one time or another started an endurance career. Should not those be counted in the base? 

Bottom line is none of the mileage thresholds are a anything to sneeze at. They represent a commitment on the rider, and a lot of work on the rider's part and a good horse. The difference between 1000 and 2000 may have more to do with a rider having the time and resources to compete more frequently than the horse. Same for 2000 and 3000, etc.

Truman

Michael Maul wrote:

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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