[RC] Kudos to Mountain region riders and the CO Horse Park Challenge - Marlene Moss
I just got back from the 3rd Colorado Horse Park
Challenge and we had an incredible time.Tom and Cindy put on a first rate ride, the weather was perfect and my
horse did beautifully.I had sort
of put a temp limit of 85 degrees on being able to do this ride – our horses
live about 3000’ higher where temps average 15 degrees less and my
husband’s horse has had her full winter coat for 2 weeks.So I was very happy to have a forecast
of 60’s and rain.
The rain worked great for the 25’s!Rain early in the morning to perfectly soften
the section of road we had to ride, but it was done about 2 minutes before we
saddled up. Cloudy most of the ride
and we were done and had our horses back in the runs that are a permanent part
of this facility before the rain hit for real. The 50’s got caught in some rain
and lightening but then it let up again.
This facility is really nice – offices for checking
in, covered areas for ride meetings and awards, stalls or runs for the horses,
RV hookups (we finally used our microwave in our trailer!) and of course nearby
trail systems and friendly ranchers that let us ride through their
property.This ride is really well
sponsored so the prizes were awesome.We had some good vendors available as well.So an excellent ride worth doing for
those that missed it.
Now for the kudos to the riders.We rode and spoke with lots of new and
fairly new endurance riders and the common theme we heard was just how nice and
helpful everyone was. We met a lady
that lives near us a couple months ago and have taken her to a NATRC and an
endurance ride and she was really impressed with how much support endurance
riders give each other. The vets
also did a great job of giving advice to help riders help their horses in
problem areas. Utta
Jung is really very caring person and I’d definitely want her as a vet if
I ever manage to put on a ride.
So hats off to ride management, helpers and riders for
making this a really great event!
