Vote for your top 3 reasons that you ride endurance - and add your Two Cents worth on Ridecamp, and after the poll closes, I'll put the best comments below.
November 17 Poll (closed)
The best comments:
As many times on this forum, members are prone to beat a dead horse, my number one requirement would be to have a live horse.
How about good LUCK???? :)
I prefer a half-assed horse. (from a mule rider)
1. Whoa
2. GO
3. A back that fits my saddle
1. Is it a gelding?
2. Can it be made a gelding?
3. Do you have any other horses for sale that meet 1 or 2?
1. Good back
2. Good feet
3. Good Story. (all my best ones have found me)
The 3 M's, Mind,Manners, and Movement
A Special Bond
1. and MOST IMPORTANT. Bred and raised tough to be a performance horse. Ideally the horse will spent his early years running around a large hilly tough pasture developing his tendons, ligaments, bones, ... long before he is ridden.
... I am a strong believer that in terms of long term soundness the early years before a horse ever has a rider on his back are critical. And those years the horse needs to naturally stressing his body by running around in a large pasture over tough terrain.
And the best reason!:
I picked my number one endurance horse because he had the most spectacular mane I had ever seen!