I also found that almost any horse can be yanked
out of pasture and taken on a 25 mile ride. But one better be a smart
rider. I also did the same thing with a 50. But here is what was
different, I took pature potato Charlie out of pasture to do a 50 since for
whatever reason he was the only available horse for me. We did the ride in
6 1/2 hrs, fat belly swinging as we trotted along. His recoveries were
great, the vets asked me at the end why didn't I go faster since I had so much
horse left over! The reason why the pasture potato was able to do this was
that he was an ex-endurance competitive horse who had had years of conditioning
on him. He just hadn't been ridden much this particular year! That
old boy was so happy to be back on trail, I had a blast tooling along on
him. Jeanie
