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Blog Updates & Upgrades to My Theme and Such

I’m doing some upgrading and updating of my WordPress theme and widgets.  Like their website says – it is both free and priceless at the same time.  Hopefully everything will continue to work while I get the code updated with my previous settings.  If something doesn’t work, please wait a day and then let me [...]

AERC Decade Teams – Update Coming Soon!

I’ve been doing a little bit of work recently on the Decade Teams for AERC. It’s really exciting to see the increase in the number of same horse and rider teams who made Decade Team status in 2008! There were 33 new teams in 2008, which is more than 2007 and 2006 combined. How cool! [...]

Changing a flat tire on a horse trailer

Now I've got the trailer up on the trailer aid and Dave is finishing removing the nuts from the flat tire. I usually have to change at least one flat or blown tire every ride season.  Every so often I get lucky and go more than a year in between that happening.  I didn’t have [...]

Conditioning Endurance Horses at Altitude

Many of the rides I go to are at a lower elevation than where I live. I’m at around 5,000′ and when I ride from home I am always going up higher in elevation. The mountains around here all around us go up to higher than 9,000′ so if I want to I can get [...]

A collection of equestrian related blog posts

It’s great to see so many other horse related blogs out there now.  Here are some posts with links to a few others out there that I check in on.  These are horse related but not endurance ride related.  If anybody has any other interesting horse related blogs to recommend please post them in my [...]

Shedding, riding and bathing

Today was the most beautiful day – 70 degrees and sunny! Rocky is sure shedding and has been for several weeks now. Check out how much hair came out of him with just a curry comb and a brush today – it looks as if he’d been clipped. Rocky has been growing really super thick [...]

Lynne Glazer’s Photography from Cuyama XP

Lynne took some great shots at Cuyama this year on day 1 and 2.  To view the Cuyama photos that she took, click here.

What came in the mail today

Or rather, I should say the only important thing that came in the mail today! I’m so excited that Chief is still going strong with 8,000 miles.  He’s my highest mileage horse – I’ve worked my way up, now I have three 6,000 mile horse medals, two 7,000 mile horse medals and now this is [...]

Worming time and upcoming rides

Time to worm the horses again.  Time sure flies, doesn’t it?  I decided to do it today so that they’d have a whole week before their next ride.  They are due on the 1st but last time I was early too.  I prefer if it were two weeks apart on either side of a ride, [...]

Endurance 101 Clinic in South Dakota

This is from Dr. Susan Garlinghouse.  Here is the website link to learn more:  http://www.equinedoc.com/EnduranceCamp.html The website doesn’t specifically list all of the other clinicians, but it’s worth mentioning that Barney has arranged for some incredibly experienced and knowledgeable people to be a part of this endurance camp. I’ll be talking on my usual subjects [...]

2009 Cuyama XP Ride Results

Click here to download the pdf file of the ride results from this years Cuyama Oaks XP Pioneer Ride. There were 25 same horse and rider teams along with 13 riders who completed all three days on two horses. In addition there were a total of 276 ride starters for the three days.  This is [...]

Hoof photos from today

I took these photos of Chief’s hooves today after taking his boots off that he had glued on for Cuyama.  There are more photos on the Renegade Hoof Boots News Page. I am getting more comfortable with the gluing process and hoof prep process now.  It isn’t hard but it is time consuming especially if [...]

Gate etiquette at an endurance ride

The Cuyama ride has several gates on it.  After doing the ride this year, it was pretty clear that there are a lot of riders out there who don’t know anything about gait etiquette. I thought I should do a post and explain the proper way to go through a gate during an endurance ride. [...]

2009 Cuyama XP Pioneer Ride Photos

I just made a photo album with nearly two hundred photos from all three days of the Cuyama Oaks XP ride. The first day started with a bit of fog. It was fun to ride in and kept the temperatures down so the horses could go up the hills without getting so hot. The second [...]

Toe straps on Renegades

This is a photo of a couple of the boots that Bo wore today on the 50 at Cuyama, day 3 of the ride. I love these boots! I strapped these boots on Bo this morning and then rode 50 miles in them and never once even touched them.  Not once!! We did everything today [...]