Endurance and Long Distance Equine Disciplines

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OMG, I pulled Jazzi's shoes!

I had Jazzi's shoes pulled yesterday! I had been thinking about it for a long time, but had all the usual concerns and well, I was not looking forward to the transition. My daughter's mare, Lyric has been bare foot for about 4 years and is (now) doing really well. But it took a really long time to get to this point. Jazzi also moves very different from Lyric; she wares her hind shoes to the point of breaking in two. Jazzi also has high/low syndrome which had been getting better with special frog… Continue

Added by Nancy Reed on March 17, 2010 at 1:26pm — No Comments

2011 XP?

3/8/2010
It has been way too long since I last posted. So much has occurred, Karen has been diagnosed with cancer that has wrapped around the great vessels in her chest, I had a 3 week bronchitis that consumed an entire case of Kleenex, the rain has been unrelenting and now my daughter has the flu. No excuses, just a really miserable month.
But I write today of the future and with the grace of God, of a goal I will obtain, the 2011 XP Pony Express ride. This once a decade ride covers 2,0… Continue

Added by Nancy Reed on March 9, 2010 at 10:05am — No Comments

Diary of a Chicken

The outdoor arena. It looked safe enough. The sand was soft and deep. What could go wrong?

But then, I was riding the 4 YEAR OLD. The very tall (15 hh for pete's sake!), very bendy, very agile, 4 YEAR OLD. The one that tossed me last fall and sent me to the ER. She's very mellow, very sweet, and actually very slow right now (a bit porky from the winter...), but that's not what's in my head. In my head, is the fresh memory of being fine one second, and the next hitting very hard

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Added by Cindy on March 7, 2010 at 9:12pm — No Comments

Winter Blues

Too much snow, too cold, and Achilles tendonitis have kept me out of the saddle. I have hope that the weather is changing and that the mild torture of physical therapy will have me feeling like Annie Oakley. The horses are getting bored too. The cattle next door are beginning to look interesting to them. But enough whining. We live in Ohio which means that one day the furnace is pumping and the next day we have the air conditioning running. Spring is sometimes as short as a single afternoon Y

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Added by kathy cockfield on March 6, 2010 at 7:56pm — No Comments

definite day for departure from Amsterdam to sint Petersburg

set to 14th of march at sunrise from Loosdrechtdreef 9 in amsterdam (Prins Willem Alexander manege) .... visit http://tepaardnaarsintpetersburg.nl Sint Petersburg here we come! Continue

Added by Michel Jacobs on March 4, 2010 at 8:44am — No Comments

A Message for Lynda Webber from an Old Acquaintance

Hi Lynda

Just a message to say hello from an old mate in Australia.. Dave and I often think of you and wonder how you're going. We are now living in the country (about an two hours drive from Melbourne) and looking after our three animals... It was wonderful to find your entry on the Endurance Net and see that you are back riding again. Would like to catch up with you.

Judy Coombe

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Added by Judy Coombe on February 25, 2010 at 3:41pm — No Comments

Let Me Tell You About My Best Friend

Let me tell you about my best friend.....

Gorgeous, refined, graceful and elegant don't even come close to describing her amazing beauty (so I humbly believe :))

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Added by Cindy on February 21, 2010 at 7:23pm — 2 Comments

Will I ever learn?

I am heading to a Chris Cox clinic in March. I have ridden with him before and I think he is brilliant. My plan was to have Allison ride Gator and I was going to ride Dinero. Dinero will be 10 years old this year. He has done a few 50's gand LD's. He is not green, but he is smarter than me. That is never good. The last clinic I took him to was with Ray Hunt who I think is also brilliant. He said Dinero was very smart and not afraid of anything. He also said, and I quote, "Who ever raised this he… Continue

Added by Odd farm on February 18, 2010 at 12:16pm — 1 Comment

Documentary "Arabian Silk: Horses of Endurance" at the AERC convention

Just wanted to let you know that "Arabian Silk" will be shown at the AERC convention in Reno on February 19th and 20th at the Trade Show booth 101.

Schedule: Friday 8:30 am

12:30

4:30 pm

Saturday 8:30 am

2:30 pm

I look forward to seeing everyone there.

Christine Lazzarini, Producer

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Added by Christine Lazzarini on February 10, 2010 at 9:35pm — No Comments

Monday, Monday, don't trust that day.......

2/8/2010

Today is Monday and it is going to be one of those days. That kind of day I run from and hide from. All of this in spite of the magnificent sun and clear skies. It started out so normal with the

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Added by Nancy Reed on February 8, 2010 at 12:52pm — No Comments

Spring is Coming!

2-5-2010 Spring is coming, really it is! Well, at least spring is coming to southern California and soon. From my front window I can see the beginnings of spring as a bit of white now dusts the chaparral covered hills. The white native lilac is now in full bloom. The scientists call it the wart stemmed Ceanothus. I call it “open space saver”. Because the white lilac is a very rare native plant in a rare plant community (coastal sage scrub), its presence has saved hundreds of acres of wild, open… Continue

Added by Nancy Reed on February 8, 2010 at 11:08am — No Comments

Documentary "Arabian Silk: Horses of Endurance"

"Arabian Silk" was viewed by 185 members of the Pacific Northwest Endurance Riders at their annual convention in Portland, OR on Saturday, January 23rd. There was a lot of laughter from the audience and they really seemed to enjoy the documentary. Here are a few comments I received: "You captured the essence of Endurance, of Us", "I cried", "I loved Jerry, he is such a dead pan". You can view a trailer and clip from the movie at www.arabiansilk.com

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Added by Christine Lazzarini on February 4, 2010 at 6:42pm — No Comments

Thinking about moving the blog

Or at least putting a parallel blog up, maybe maintaining this one for website updates. I am disappointed at the spam levels I have been seeing. So I worked the last evening on adding wordpress to the main site,trying to make it look pretty and such http://www.b4boots.com/w/ What do you think? Continue

Added by Bill J on February 1, 2010 at 4:54pm — 1 Comment

b4boots - again

Hey what else should I talk about, its awfully darn cold to ride right now. I finished putting up the other sizes, 0, 1,2,3 & 4. I still need to do the extra bells, not that many will want or need them but hey. I am trying to figure out how to offer both the repair and the recycling programs we have through the website. Lots of options, makes it really way to complicated. Continue

Added by Bill J on January 30, 2010 at 8:39pm — 3 Comments

Mr. Toads Wild Ride

1-29-2010 I got the wash going, swept and vacuumed the house and will get on my horse after I write this. I was able to ride yesterday for about 90 minutes on the dirt road, again. This time we went west towards the ocean and it was so cold with the damp ocean wind barreling down the canyon. Jazzi was not happy as it was after 4 pm when we got started. All she wanted to do was get back to the barn and eat. Due to the rain we got Wednesday the trails were not safe to really work her like she need… Continue

Added by Nancy Reed on January 29, 2010 at 2:33pm — No Comments

Dreaming of a real ride.....

1-28-2010 Finally a beautiful, bright and sunny California day! It rained about a quarter of an inch the night before last and the reports are for sunny skies through the weekend, yahoo ! I have my fingers crossed it will be safe to do some hills in a day or two as I am getting tired of the same flat trail. Both Jazzi and I need more work to get ready for a ride. The big question is what ride? We have not completed a ride since June of 2008 when Jazzi had a horrible colic at the Descanso ride in… Continue

Added by Nancy Reed on January 28, 2010 at 11:39am — 1 Comment

Jumping the Fence

I have grown up on the back of a horse. The odyssey on which my mounts and I have embarked in my short 29 years has been convoluted, exhilarating, frustrating, devastating, and enlightening. "Buck" (Wow I just now realized the irony of that name for a horse). It all started on the day of my fifth birthday. Buck came to my party at our home in Naples, Florida. From that moment on, I was hooked. He was (as I recall in my minds eye) a very big horse. Slick, soft, bay, and as gentle as they come. I… Continue

Added by Karry Heun on January 27, 2010 at 8:34am — 2 Comments

Tu Cool A Young Girls Dream Horse

When I think back to the night I met Tu Cool I still get the nervous butterfly's of a little girl finding her dream horse, after all I was only fourteen when we met. It was already dark outside and we were walking into the indoor arena to meet with the trainer and see a horse I had heard little about, and had no idea what to expect. As we passed through the arena door the trainer was standing next to a beautiful little grey mare. I honestly didn't think that the horse she had was Tu Cool because… Continue

Added by Hope Elison on January 26, 2010 at 11:14pm — 1 Comment

ice verses trekkers

Ok mother nature is not going to ruin our plans. It is time to deploy the Trekkers. for those of you who don't know what they are?? It makes it so you can walk on snow and ice with out falling. Mine of course are orange. Anyway since riding is probly not real safe right now walking it is. I will let you all know just how many feet I mean Miles we make today. cole Continue

Added by cole bengtson on January 24, 2010 at 4:51am — No Comments

Looking for elk

Well the weather is turning back to normal (windy). Mary and I was able to ride Duan and Sierra about 6 miles today. We went up the hill looking for elk. We were in the middle of all kinds of old feeding ground, but no elk to be seen. Oh well we had a great ride. Duan is doing so well you would think that she was 10 instead of 4. And what a trot. She can move. Continue

Added by Gary R. Brown on January 23, 2010 at 9:33pm — 2 Comments