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2021 TEVIS CUP DISPATCHES
Kathie Perry finishes her 24th Tevis Cup!
Kathie Perry finished this one on 14-year-old Arabian Cowbboy Bob. It's Bob's 4th Tevis buckle and 2nd with 77-year-old Kathie. She's one of our Endurance Legends!
Jeremy Reynolds Wins Fourth Tevis Cup
Team John Henry Goes For Buckle #6
Many of you are following the John Henry saga. This 21-year-old Tennessee Walker, beloved by so many, had 5 Tevis buckles, over 4000 AERC miles, a catastrophic pasture front-leg injury, a long healing process, an amazing comeback-to-endurance journey, and Saturday‘s attempt at a record (for a gaited horse) sixth Tevis buckle.
Jenni Gomez had the ride on Susan Garlinghouse’s gelding, and Team John Henry turned out in full support...
they crossed the finish line in Auburn...
but alas, due to Tevis Gremlins, they were overtime so he did not get a completion.
so close, and yet so heartbreakingly far!
Jeremy Reynolds and Treasured Moments Win 2021 Tevis Cup; Jeanette Mero and Ozark Kaolena SWA Win Haggin Cup
by Merri Melde-Endurance.net
July 26 2021
Jeremy Reynolds and Treasured Moments finished first in the August 24th Tevis Cup. Riding at the front of the pack of 133 riders, the two enjoyed a comfortable margin of victory at the end, finishing the 100 miles in 14 hours 48 minutes.
Second place was a nail-biter, as 3 riders popped up trail out of the dark 1 hour and 10 minutes later, with Christoph Schork and VA Blizzard of Oz nipping Vicki Holzer and SW Majestica, with Susan Kramer and A Ali Aseel another length back in fourth.
Suzanne Ford Huff and S D Expressa had been running up front with Jeremy leaving the Foresthill vet check, but they dropped back to finish fifth.
Finishing sixth and seventh were the mother-daughter duo of Jeanette and Reyna Mero. Jeanette rode Ozark Kaolena SWA (Lena) and Reyna rode Chndakas Eklipse SWA, with Lena receiving the Haggin Cup the next morning.
Jeremy is now a 4-time Tevis Cup winner (he also won the Haggin Cup 3 times previously).
Treasured Moments is an 11-year-old mare by DA Adios X Hidden Treasure, by RD Five Star, who received her 4th Tevis Buckle (her first buckle was a 3rd place and Haggin cup with Jeremy). Eight weeks previously she’d been in Italy where she and Jeremy won the 100-mile Italian Championship.
Jeanette Mero received her 4th Tevis buckle and Lena received her second. The mare has completed all but 2 of her 34 starts and she’s earned 7 Best Condition awards, including the 2019 National Championship 100 in California.
This year's heat wasn't particularly awful, though some riders did have to contend with the usual Tevis Gremlins out on trail (and before the ride). The riders and horses did have to contend with smoke from the start to several miles past the first hour vet check at Robinson Flat (36) miles but a top rider didn't consider that a factor.
63 riders finished out of 133 starters for a completion rate of 47%, which is more or less average for the Tevis Cup.
July 21 - Wondering what the Tevis Cup is *really* like?
“It is not for the faint of heart: 100 hard-won miles of rock, dust, elevation, uphill (19,000 cumulative feet of climbing), downhill (22,000 cumulative feet of descending), imposing mountains, plunging canyons, wild Rivers, wilderness, extreme heat, suffocating humidity, extraordinary effort, and luck - good or bad, all in various doses, riding your horse across the Sierra Nevada mountains, in the dark and the light and the dark, all done within a 24 hour time limit. In 2010, Time magazine listed the Tevis Cup as one of the top 10 endurance competitions in the world.“
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July 21 - 13 year old Junior Kyla Law will be attempting the Tevis Cup aboard her Hackney pony, Piece of Perfection (Flash). She’ll be riding with her mom, Natalie Law, aboard Mo Motion Jack.
Kyla has 915 AERC, EDRA, and WDRA miles, and she and Flash finished their first 100 in the December Scottsdale ReMarkable 100.
you can’t miss Flash - he’s pony-sized, but he’s got the personality of two horses put together and the determination of four, and Kyla has the biggest smile you’ll see all weekend!
July 21 - The legendary 21 year old John Henry will be going for his sixth Tevis Buckle, which would be a record for a gaiter horse. Jenny Gómez will be aboard (Brenna Sullivan was scheduled to ride but an injury change plans). Owned by Susan Garlinghouse (pictured with John Henry at Tevis in 2013) they have two buckles together, team John Henry will be out in full force!
July 18 - The legendary Kathie Perry (11,000+ AERC Miles) will be riding for her 25th Tevis buckle this year! She’ll be aboard Cowbboy Bob, who has three buckles of his own, one with Kathie in 2019
(The two are pictured at City of Rocks Pioneer in June)
July 17 - Ann Hall posted this:
TEVIS 2021 - THIS IS US
Suzanne Hayes is riding for her 10th Tevis buckle, her mount Sanstormm is going for his first Tevis buckle. I am riding for buckle #10, my mount owned and trained by Suzie, Greenbriar Al Jabal, is going for his 5th buckle.
Suzie is #9
I am #72
(The 2 of them are pictured at last year's Big Horn 100, where Suzie and Sanz won, and Ann and Atlas came 3rd)