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Continue reading 2012 Cuyama Oaks XP Ride
I’ve been behind on blogging due to being at rides for the last three weeks. I rode Bo and Chief both two days at Eastern Mojave, then from there we moved over to the Bar H ride in Perris, CA.
It was a great trip overall and I was happy to get back home. It was quite a change going from 80 degree temps on Sunday to being home where it’s 20 degrees and
Continue reading Bar H 2012 Ride Report
Chief after a full body clip. Feb 2012.
To clip or no to clip. I finally gave in, and did it. I did full body clips on both horses over the weekend. When I clip, I like to do it a couple of weeks prior to a ride.
I had been putting clipping off because I just knew that winter was going to appear. Didn’t happen. Neither horse had started to shed either.
Continue reading Clipped my endurance horses
One of the scariest things to have happen at an endurance ride, is to have a panicky horse galloping towards you with it’s saddle underneath it’s belly.
This has happened to me. More than once. Not to my own horses, mind you; I’ve been in the path of other horses as they run in fear usually back towards camp.
It’s not a fun thing to experience for anyone, least of all the horse or
Continue reading Endurance Horse Training Basics: Saddle Slipping
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
Continue reading Mischievous Bay Horses
We had a pretty good time last weekend. I rode Chief on Friday to mark trail along with Sue Wilkie and her horse Rocky. Then, I rode Bo on the first day of the ride in the 50, and Chief in the 50 on the 2nd day. The weather turned out great, and all things considered the turnout was decent – though still down over the previous year. I think that may just be
Continue reading Death Valley Warmup, December 10 & 11, 2011
I was riding Chief on this trail when a strand of wire from a whole roll of it got caught on Chief's hind leg.
Thought I’d show a perfect example of a time when having a horse trained to not panic when he gets caught in something can be a lifesaver.
A couple of years ago I was riding Chief at the Grand Canyon XP. We had just come up a steep climb
Continue reading Benefits of basic training: an example! (or two)
Things don’t always go perfectly well for me. Or my horses. Seriously.
While I had a great ride at Bryce, Chief’s eyelid started to bother him again. He tore his eyelid apart a couple of years ago, catching it on a hotwire fence insulator while trying to get to grass on the other side of the fence. That’s what happens when your high mileage horse has to be on a diet, because his metabolism
Continue reading and when things don’t go right….
This was how the first day of the 2011 XP started. We rode as carefully as we could and managed to get through the entire 2040 mile ride! This is Chief with Nannette's horse Wizard.
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
Continue reading 2011 Ride Season Comes to a Close
I’ve been using neck collars on the horses for about six months now and thought I’d do an update on how they have been working out.
I ordered these in advance of the 2011 XP ride. I knew that the horses would be living on the road for over two months and didn’t want to have their halters rubbing hair off of their faces. I knew it was going to be hot and humid
Continue reading Neck Collars: Review after a few months use
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