Karen's Musings & Endurance Ride Stuff » achievement http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog miscellaneous musings about horses, health and life in general Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:15:04 +0000 en hourly 1 Mischievous Bay Horses http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2012/01/mischievous-bay-horses/ http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2012/01/mischievous-bay-horses/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:55:01 +0000 Karen Chaton http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/?p=8702 Mischievous Bay Horses

by Karen Chaton

Jan 2012

Pretty bay horses come in all shapes and sizes,

Shy and adventurous, full of surprises,

With a misshapen halo and

Mischievous grin,

Mine pulls out the stall mats and moves the feed bins,

Shakes every bucket and rattles each pail,

He carried me through history on the Pony

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What a ride season I have had.  I was just looking back at this post from last year when I listed my goals for the 2011 ride season.

Here is an excerpt where I discuss why I was

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Yay!  So without further ado, here they are:

1)  Overall Rider Results for XP & Sunrise Ranch Rides

2)  Overall Horse Results for XP  & Sunrise Ranch Rides

If anybody spots an error, let me know.

Congratulations to everyone who participated this year!

Next I’ll put together a list of the Gold, Silver and

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Karen and Bo, Grand Canyon XP 2011. Photo by Steve Bradley.

I’ve been trying to get these photos posted for the last couple of weeks!  The first two at the top were taken by Steve Bradley.

You can see we had a really gorgeous ride this year.  The fall colors were spectacular and as an added bonus we even got to

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]]> http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2011/10/2011-grand-canyon-xp-photos-ride-report/feed/ 2 Bryce 2011 XP – 2 days made for 16,000 miles, yay Bo and Cheefy! http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2011/09/bryce-2011-xp/ http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2011/09/bryce-2011-xp/#comments Wed, 07 Sep 2011 01:28:26 +0000 Karen Chaton http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/?p=8278 We had a most excellent ride this year at the 5 day Bryce XP.  We headed down early to help with trail, as there was a severe blow-down of trees on the trail.  It took a lot of work to get everything cleared and the trail marked so that horse’s could get through.  The FS, Dave Rabe and Dwight, Ann and Dave Nicholson all really worked hard chainsawing and clearing trails.  Kerry Redente and

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]]> http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2011/09/bryce-2011-xp/feed/ 3 So you want to be an endurance rider? http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2011/08/endurance-rider/ http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2011/08/endurance-rider/#comments Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:45:34 +0000 Karen Chaton http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/?p=8269 I wrote this many years ago and thought it was worth sharing.  To learn more about endurance riding, visit www.aerc.org    Karen

Since I began endurance riding about 10 years ago I have been asked many questions. Many of these questions had to do with which rides do I like best, how to do something and in general things you could find in a book or by trial and error. Recently, I had the

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I wrote a journal during the trip, which is here (from that link, click on my name – Karen Chaton).

I had the most amazing trip riding Granite Chief and Pro Bono 2040 miles on the Pony Express trail, from St. Joseph, MO to Virginia City, NV.

It was some adventure.  We

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]]> http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2011/07/summer/feed/ 9 Hadji Wins 2010 AHA Distance Horse of the Year http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2011/03/hadji-wins-2010-aha-distance-horse-year/ http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/2011/03/hadji-wins-2010-aha-distance-horse-year/#comments Wed, 09 Mar 2011 04:00:53 +0000 Karen Chaton http://enduranceridestuff.com/blog/?p=7752 Photo by Steve Bradley.

Stephanie wrote me about the honor of having Hadji receive the Arabian Horse Association Distance Horse of the Year Award.  Since it’s inception, they have chosen some really nice horses to receive this award, including my Cheefy.

I think it’s a great award that has been given to horses that really go the distance and I’m happy that several of these horses have belonged to friends of  mine.  It’s

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I wrote this in early 2001, printed it out and put it in my binder for the ’01 XP ride and I don’t think I’ve seen this since then, till last night.   My grandmother is now gone, so reading that part was really hard.  Her father (my great grandfather) rode a horse from Oklahoma City to New York and back twice, and from Oklahoma City to San Francisco, CA.  Grandma’s family

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