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It takes a lot of grit and determination, not to mention physical stamina, to be an endurance rider at the top level, especially if you have just given birth to a daughter and intend to be on the team for the World Equestrian Games (WEG) to be held in Kentucky, USA in September.
Ros Clapp, 37, from Baltonsborough, Somerset, competed the 80km Endurance Ride at BarbaryCastle on 7th August, with her team horse, Nazeeka, just 27 days after her secon
France, once again, showed their skill and sheer determination when each one of their finishing team members, Philippe Benoit, Virginie Atger and Pascale Dietsch, had final loop speeds of over 21.9kph. French Chef d'Equipe Mr. Jean Louis Leclerc has now gained both the World and European titles with his hugely successful team.
Endurance riders from Uruguay claimed Team and Individual gold in the Senior division, while the host nation of Chile dominated the Young Riders classes at the 2011 Pan-American Endurance Championships staged in Santo Domingo (CHI) last weekend. Bernardo Algorta registered an impressive average speed of 20 kilometres an hour with his horse, Cacique, to take the Senior title for Uruguay, while Chile's Sebastian Taverne and Eclipse covered the challenging c
Rapid Redux tied the modern-day United States record for wins in a single season Dec. 13, as he went wire-to-wire in a $5,000 starter allowance race at Laurel Park. The 5-year-old son of Pleasantly Perfect won his 19th race in 2011, tying the legendary Citation, who won 19 times during his Triple Crown season of 1948, and Roseben in 1905. Rapid Redux, who has now won his last 21 starts dating back to Dec. 2, 2010, broke the U.S. record for consecutive wins
Spain's record-breaking partnership of Maria Alvarez Ponton and Nobby took their fourth Championship title in a row when putting in another phenomenal performance at the FEI European Endurance Championships 2011 in Florac, France yesterday. And the host nation had plenty to celebrate too, as Virginie Atger, Julien Goachet, Sunny Demedy and Benedicte Santisteva claimed the team honours for France. Concerns about the intense heat in the days leading up to
In the last ten years I have bred 17 Arabian performance horses starting in 1999 with the Part bred colt Zayin Shijami (by TB Noble Envoy out of Shikari PBA). Since then I have concentrated on breeding solely pure bred Arabians for racing and endurance, the first Kumara Zayin being born in 2001. We have utilised the best bloodlines available using stallions from Umm Qarn Farm, Shadwell Stud and Conkwell Stud. The band of broodmares represents the finest pr
After a year-long battle with the International Equestrian Federation (FEI), Somerset-based endurance rider Christine Yeoman has managed to clear her name. She had been investigated following a positive dope test on her home-bred mare CJS Gai Forest in August last year.
The presence of the growth promoter ractopamine in a urine test meant Christine was immediately suspended from competition, and she was forced to withdrawal from the European cha
Find out what goes into organizing the 2006 World Equestrian Games endurance competition, what the route is like and who the strongest contenders are. July 31, 2006 — Endurance will be firmly in the spotlight at Aachen as the opening contest of the FEI World Equestrian Games (WEG) this August. Riders will set off on their 160-kilometer journey before dawn from the mass start at the show grounds at Aachen Soers. Approximately 12 hours later, tens of thousa
Miguel Vila Ubach, of Spain, and his eight-year-old Hungares landed a surprise victory in the 160-kilometre World Endurance Championship yesterday. The first of seven disciplines at the World Equestrian Games, the endurance developed into a war of attrition. Ubach was followed home by two French riders, Virginie Atger on Kangoo d'Aurabelle, also an eight-year-old, and Elodie le Labourier with Sangho'Limousian, who is twice his compatriot's age and will now
Endurance rides covering distances from 40 to 160 kilometers in a 24-hour period are grueling tasks for both horse and rider. So it's not surprising to learn that up to 60% of horses can be eliminated for health reasons during the competition. A team of U.S. researchers recently set out to determine which factors, at the start and in the first or second half of rides, contribute to endurance horses' elimination from competition. "To our knowledge, this is
How did the French riders fare over the competitions at The World Equestrian Games? Have they brought back plenty to think about in preparation for the 2014 Games in Normandy?
We are a small stud/competition yard based on the Devon /Dorset border that specialises in competing endurance horses of all levels up to international. We have 4 horses registered for Endurance in 2009. Yawl Hillbilly and Ishtar Spirit who are both PBA and will both be 6 and spend the year doing open rides, Connie a Anglo Arab who will be 14 and will be aimed at the 100 miles at Golden Horseshoe in what will be her 10th Endurance season and our present
Following a meeting at Hartpury International Team assessment day in November 2010, the new British Endurance World Class Start and Potential Squad has been formed - WCSPS. Horse and Rider combinations with an eye on FEI and International Team Competitions, can now enter the squad having completed a minimum of 2 x 80k rides (at speeds under 16kph within the last 24 month). Following on from this the management team will assess and prepare combinations to c
After a very successful day at Kings Forest, the endurance eam announced, on behalf of the Selectors that the following combinations have been selected from the World Class Start Squad to travel to Mont Le Soie on 30th April 2011 to compete as a Team representing Great Britain. They will all ride in the 120km FEI 2*.
Fiona Griffiths and Dear Kate
Lindsey Comben and Radhwan
Andrea Champ and Driumghiga Luxor
Sue Higgins and Ab
Try to comprehend what Maria Alvarez Ponton of Spain accomplished Sunday. Seven weeks after giving birth to a daughter, Maria, mom went out and captured the gold medal in the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games endurance event. Covering 100 miles in and around the Kentucky Horse Park, Ponton came in to the event as reigning world and European champion.
Sunday, she sat in second place through the first two vet checks, then took control on her Fren
The Long Horse Ride, organised by EnduranceGB life member Megan Lewis is a journey on horseback from Beijing to London. Starting out shortly after the closing ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, it is scheduled to arrive in London in time for the 2012 London Olympics.
The Long Horse Ride is a journey on horseback from Beijing to London.
It is scheduled to set out after the closing ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and to arrive
Endurance GB has put the finishing touches to its team for the 2010 World Equestrian Games (WEG). Those now travelling to Kentucky are Beccy Broughton-Booker with Java Sunlight or Tawmarsh Muharram, Janice Cockley Adams with Roxanne du Bout du Monde, Christine Yeoman with CJS Gai Forest or L M Midday, David Yeoman and Haszar and Ros Clapp with Nazeeka. Ros gave an indication of just how tough these riders have to be when she completed an 80 km endurance ri
On Nov. 15 the Maryland Horse Industry Board (MHIB) presented its "Touch of Class" Award to Anne Arundel resident and horse trainer John Crandell III and his Endurance Triple Crown winning Arabian gelding, Heraldic, who together won two silver medals from the Endurance competition at the Pan American Games, held in Chile on Oct. 21. Crandell and Heraldic will lead the U.S. Team in the World Endurance Championship in England in 2012--an event held simultane
Britain's WEG endurance team of Ros Clapp, Christine Yeoman, David Yeoman (all from Somerset) and Beccy Broughton-Booker had mixed fortunes in the States. After the first four loops, Ros was the fastest of the team riders, with Christine and David not far behind and a medal was on the cards.
But after the fifth loop, Ros's horse Nazeeka was eliminated at the vet gate for irregular metabolics, which ended any medal hopes.
All the other
Dutch championship TREC was held last weekend in Hoenderloo. Seven riders competed in the highest class (T4) against each other. Renske Giesen eventually went away with the title. The first part was Saturday start: POR (oriëntatierit). The participants were about six hours on the road with their route, where they only had to work with their map and a compass. Renske Giesen after the POR was already in the lead with 222 points. Heidi Hugen-Beckers followed
We are a small stud in the Lake District, careful breeders of pure bred arab horses for our own endurance ridden use for over 20 years. We have realised how few straight Crabbet stallions at public stud are left in the UK, and have expanded our breeding of 100% Crabbet and GSB arabian foals at home and to visiting mares. Our 100% Crabbet endurance stallion Hanson stood here until his death in 2009. He had just been joined here by Winged Saint, also straigh
Over 150 delegates representing nine different nationalities are attending the Australasian FEI Endurance Conference and Forum, which began in Brisbane (AUS) today. Delegates from Australia, Canada, France, Great Britain, Malaysia, New Zealand, Thailand, the UAE and the USA are taking part in three days of lectures and discussion sessions across a wide range of topics relating to international Endurance. This is the first time the world forum has been hel
Coach Emile Docquier has selected Marijke Visser and Eomer for the Endurance World Championship for Juniors and Young Riders in the French Ibos Tarbes. The twenty strongest youth rider Netherlands currently has, with its mold Eomer much international experience in endurance. A good finish at the World Championship in 2011 and the fourth place at the European Championship in 2012 earned Visser last winter an invitation to the President's Cup in Abu Dhabi.
The FEI European Endurance Championship Open Qatar Challenge earlier this month was the first time Portugal had hosted an endurance event of this level. Several nations were slightly apprehensive about the track at in Barroca d'Alva, which although was flat with generally good going was demanding and would require a 'thinking cap' to achieve a good result.
Lately in endurance the trend has been to have one central vet gate from which all loops s
The United Kingdom has emerged as the largest group participating in Al Fares Dubai 2004, the fifth international equine trade fair, thereby endorsing Dubai's position as one of the leading centres for equestrian activities.
The Nottinghamshire-based Creature Comforts is one of the several repeat exhibitors in Al Fares Dubai 2004, to be held from December 6-8, at the Dubai International Exhibition Centre (DIEC).
Creature Comforts is m
The Team Silver medal was awarded to France with a total time of 24 hours, 49 minutes and 46 seconds. The team was made up of Sarah Chakil aboard Sakalia, Virginie Atger aboard Azim du Florival and Cecile Miletto Mosti aboard Easy Fortnoire.
Baltonsborough rider Ros Clapp has been selected for the Great Britain endurance team for the World Equestrain Games which start this weekend in Kentucky. The 16-day event, which starts on Saturday, will see Clapp and her horse Nazeeka competing in the long distance horse riding event which starts on Sunday.
This will be Clapp's first appearance at world level, having competed in the European Endurance Championships in Assisi, Italy, last year.<
The host nation of Kazakhstan captured all the medals at the 2011 FEI Central Asian Endurance Championship staged in Talgar earlier this month. Altyngali Bissemaganbetov claimed gold, while Amangeldy Munaitbayev took silver and Kairzhan Andybay clinched the bronze. Just six of the 16 starters completed the 80kms course, and the only non-Kazakh in the final line-up was the sole competitor from Turkmenistan, sixth-placed Oleg Karabayev.
Bissemag
The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced the members of the U.S. endurance team at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games. The list is as follows, in alphabetical order:
Team:
1. Deborah Reich of Croton-on-Hudson, New York, on Juniper RJW (Deste Onismus x Deste Toouche), an eight-year-old Arabian mare owned by Rolling Stone Farm, Slatington, Pennsylvania.
2. Heather Reynolds of Los Gatos, California, on Ssamiam (Sam Tik
Miguel Vila Ubach, of Spain, and his eight-year-old Hungares landed a surprise victory in the 160-kilometre World Endurance Championship yesterday. The first of seven disciplines at the World Equestrian Games, the endurance developed into a war of attrition. Ubach was followed home by two French riders, Virginie Atger on Kangoo d'Aurabelle, also an eight-year-old, and Elodie le Labourier with Sangho'Limousian, who is twice his compatriot's age and will now
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Ruby Walsh delivers the line with a flash of his mischievous smile. 'I know we beat England in the cricket, but we are far better at horses,' he laughs. 'But it would be great to stop the England rugby team winning the Grand Slam and then head on to the World Cup in good nick.'
Patriotic Irishman Walsh, 31, has summed up in a few words j
Richard Hughes won on his first two rides on Tuesday to continue his jaw dropping form of yesterday, when he won on an incredible seven out of eight rides at Windsor. His two victories at Leicester took his record to an amazing nine wins from his last ten rides, before he came home mid-division on his third ride of the day, My Queenie, the 2-1 favo
Willie Carson was the happiest man alive when Regal Parade took a prize that he couldn't win during his star-studded career as a jockey. For Regal Parade, 18-1 winner of the John Smith's Ayr Gold Cup, was partnered by his grandson William. "I am happier than when I won the Derby, really proud. This should be where William's career takes off," said
Quevega continued her remarkable career by beating the geldings to carry off the World Series Hurdle at Punchestown. The seven-year-old, a three-time winner of the David Nicholson Mares' Hurdle at Cheltenham, survived an error over the final flight to beat Mourad.
The first two horses home were trained by Willie Mullins, with Ruby Walsh
With Frankie Dettori on his best form, the five year old Joshua Tree trained by Marco Botti held on from the fast-finishing Dandino for a British one-two in the Canadian International.
Starting off at 4-1, he was reclaiming the $1.5 million event after winning two years ago for former trainer Aidan O'Brien and finishing second to Sarah
The Jockey Club announced Sept. 27 an enhancement to Thoroughbred Connect, the organization's online resource for rehoming Thoroughbreds at the conclusion of their racing or breeding careers. Under this new feature, persons in possession of Thoroughbreds in need of aftercare can now list those horses publicly on thoroughbredconnect.com. Those willi
Fan favourite, William Carson was handed a four-day ban yesterday after he weighed in 2lb under after finishing third on Beggers Belief in the 6.30pm at Kempton on Wednesday evening.
Carson weighed out at 9st 7lb but came in at just 9st 5lb after the 1m2f handicap race. He and trainer Eric Wheeler could not explain the loss and so Carson
Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands winner Animal Kingdom has suffered an injury to his left hind leg, Team Valor International president Barry Irwin confirmed June 16. Dean Richardson, DVM, Dipl. ACVS, head of surgery at the George D. Widener Hospital for Large Animals at the University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center, examined a nuclear s
Aintree racecourse is looking for a new sponsor for the Grand National after John Smith's confirmed it would not be renewing its deal beyond the 2013 race.
The ale company, which has backed the race since 2005, will continue to be involved with racing elsewhere.
John Smith's Karen Crowley said: "The Grand National has been one of
Amateur jockey Robert Hawker was banned 12 days following his fifth-placed finish aboard Monderon in the second race at Taunton on Thursday.
Hawker was found guilty of 'failing to take all reasonable and permissible measures to obtain the best possible placing' in the Alpha Motorability Wheelchair Passenger Transport Novices' Hurdle.
Liam Treadwell had to pull a rabbit out of a hat to bag a winner on his 24th birthday at Plumpton. Landing the Grand National on Mon Mome made 2009 an unforgettable year for Treadwell, whose partnership with Findon trainer Nick Gifford is starting to flourish.
The jockey nearly came off Nomecheki (3-1) at the penultimate fence of the att
With all the talk about whether horse racing is safe enough, most of the talk being about it's dange to horses. We know riders have the choce as to whether to take part or not, but we it is equally dangerous for them as we found out at Aintree last week, Brian Hughes, Ruby Walsh, Tony McCoy, Davy Russel and Noel Fehily were all injured, with Noel F
During 2010 he won a 15th jockey`s title, his first Grand National and scored an overwhelming poll victory in the BBC`s Sports Personality of the Year. But finding a way to upset invincible Big Buck`s during 2011 already looks beyond Tony McCoy, jump racing`s superman of the saddle.
Even the winning-machine, himself, seemed to acce
With the British national hunt season in full swing we take a look at the top performers across the racetracks north and south over the last ten years and ask, Who are the top 5 British National Hunt Jockeys of the last decade?
5. Graham Lee
Lee squeezes into our top 5 having been a contender on the British jump scene for