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Hoof Boot Maintenance

If you ride in any kind of hoof boot you already know that they require a certain amount of work to maintain them. That amount of work depends on the type of boot and how often you ride in it and how hard or easy your horse is on your boots. It’s no different than [...]

2010 Eastern High Sierra Classic 50 Ride Photos & Report – My 500th Ride Completion!

This year was the 25th anniversary of one of the most popular rides in the West region.  This ride is very popular for good reason too – it’s in incredibly beautiful country (the Sierra’s) plus it’s got a lot of fun technical trails.  The 50 mile ride consists of two loops.  The first one is [...]

Endurance horses are going the distance without nailed on shoes!

Check this out, 7 of the top 10 horses in the AERC National Mileage Championship are competing in hoof boots and are NOT using nailed on shoes for hoof protection! My two horses are both in the standings – Chief is 4th with 970 miles and Bo is 7th with 750 miles- though Bo now [...]

Pre-ride check, before cleaning everything for….Tevis on Saturday!

I took Bo out for a ride yesterday evening to do a final check on our tack and hoof boots.  The first photo is of Bo just before we left to head out for the trail. I think everything is good to go – after our ride I put most of the tack in the [...]

Tevis is approaching fast!

Next Saturday, July 24 – is the 54th annual running of the 100 mile Tevis Cup endurance ride.  I’ve been riding, volunteering or crewing since ’94.  It is the kind of event that gets in your blood.  Even if you can’t ride the Tevis, you feel compelled to help others ride and complete or else [...]

Strawberry Fields Forever 2010 Ride Photos!

It took me awhile to get these posted, because I had to go through a lot of photos. I have narrowed them down to only 265 in the album.  There are a lot of photos here – from all four days of the ride plus trail marking and trail work. Rider photos were taken by [...]

Owyhee Fandango: Only 100 Miles to Go – Come Along for a Virtual Ride with Me – continued…

Does it look like we are having fun?   Steve Bradley always gets the best photos!  Yesterday I started writing about the 100 at Owyhee Fandango but only got as far as getting ready for the ride…. So now let’s start at the beginning of the ride itself!  I gave myself an hour to get ready, [...]

Owyhee Fandango: Only 100 Miles to Go – Come Along for a Virtual Ride with Me!

This is just the pre-ride prep stuff…I’ll get to the actual “ride” writeup tomorrow!  Till then, I did at least get an album up with more than 100 photos so you can see what the trail was like – beautiful ride! After riding Chief in the 50 on Friday I had to really fight the [...]

Product Reviews: Zephyr’s Garden Thrush Spray

So far this  ride season, I’ve glued Renegade glue-on boots on Chief twice.  The first time he completed three endurance rides in the glue-ons, and the second time he completed four endurance rides in the glue-ons.  I know you are probably wondering what does that have to do with thrush spray? Well…a lot!  One of [...]

Pro Bono hoof photos, May 15, 2010

Here are some current photos of Bo’s hooves.   These were taken over the weekend while I was at the Hell’s Kitchen Canyon ride.  Bo has been doing very well barefoot.  I’ve ridden Bo barefoot on quite a few rides in the last few months.  I’ve found that it’s been really super easy to pull his [...]

Hell’s Kitchen Canyon 2010 – Ride Report & Photos

This was my third time going to Hell’s Kitchen Canyon and Bruce Burnham (RM) thought it was either the 30th or 31st year for the ride.  They do a great job with this one day 25/50 mile ride in Gunnison, Utah.  Dave Rabe and I both decided to stay around after Mt. Carmel and help [...]

From endurance ride to endurance ride

I haven’t had much time to post lately, and the internet has been pretty slow and consistently iffy. When it has worked I’ve used it to get the Mt. Carmel XP ride results posted and other work done that I needed to.  I still have a ton more to do and know that there is [...]

Bar H Renegade Boot Update

I rode Chief both days at Bar H (100 miles) plus marking trail in a new pair of strap on Renegades with built in gel pads. I thought I would do a quick update so others can learn about them. We had a great ride all three days (1=trail marking, 2=50 mile rides) and I [...]

The next ride – a 100 miler

I have a feeling that for this upcoming ride I’ll be the weak link.  I managed to get through four days of the Mojave ride, but just barely.  I made it home then went to the orthopedist right away.  The xrays showed that I have calcified tendonitis in my shoulder.  So I got a steroid [...]

Death Valley Warmup RIDE Report (part 4)

I decided to ride Bo the first day.  I’m not sure why, maybe because Chief did more miles trail marking so I figured he could use the extra day break he’d get before going on day 2?  In either case, there wasn’t any real definite reason for picking which horse to ride which day.  Sometimes [...]