Endurance horse breeders

[independentlyawesome]

I’m just window shopping, so please ignore this if that upsets you :winkgrin:

Who are some breeders of top endurance horses with good websites? I love oogling the wee Arabian foals, and dreaming about winning the Tevis Cup.

Good mind, talented, and stunningly beautiful please!

[Regardless]

Belesemo Arabians (www.belesemo.com) breeds a fantastic horse!

[Lieselotte]

Crockett Dumas (Outlaw Trail Ranch Arabians) has bred some amazing horses and has a very specific breeding philosophy worth listening to.
A lot of people who want to race (and possibly sell overseas) buy from Cre Run Farms or Asgard Arabians.
Then there’s the Rushcreek crowd but that breeding program has ended and those horse are now all over and not sure if anyone is continuing?

But to be honest, you don’t need an “Endurance” breeder to get a great horse! As long as they are interested in breeding substance over beauty, and performance before everything else, you can get most Arabs to a level where they can do Tevis. Especially if they also had a horse-appropriate upbringing and a slow (late) start.

[independentlyawesome]

[QUOTE=Lieselotte;7653453]

But to be honest, you don’t need an “Endurance” breeder to get a great horse! As long as they are interested in breeding substance over beauty, and performance before everything else, you can get most Arabs to a level where they can do Tevis. Especially if they also had a horse-appropriate upbringing and a slow (late) start.[/QUOTE]

Oh, I’m well aware of that :lol: - I just enjoy window shopping!

I am actually training to qualify to race the human version of Tevis (Western States 100), but on hot runs I dream of having a horse to run it on. I love the Cre Run website - those horses are stunning. It’s hard looking past the “awkward stage” on some of the breeder websites, although weanlings are nearly universally hilariously cute.

[morgan01]

I was SAD to see the rushcreek ranch disperse!!! YEARS ago we bought two yearlings from them and those were the best horses ever. Solid, steady eddy horses. The beginning of this summer, I saw a lady in the parking lot with her horse and saw the rushcreek brand and I had to go over and talk with her. I think she said her horse was 19 and she was looking for another Rushcreek. My friend in Idaho has two but I don’t know anyone else.
Al Marah has some nice ones. I had one of those at one time and he was wonderful.

[morgan01]

I was SAD to see the rushcreek ranch disperse!!! YEARS ago we bought two yearlings from them and those were the best horses ever. Solid, steady eddy horses. The beginning of this summer, I saw a lady in the parking lot with her horse and saw the rushcreek brand and I had to go over and talk with her. I think she said her horse was 19 and she was looking for another Rushcreek. My friend in Idaho has two but I don’t know anyone else.
Al Marah has some nice ones. I had one of those at one time and he was wonderful.

[saffire_100]

There is a Rushcreek FB page to keep the RC horse owners in touch with each other.

[trailpal]

At least one or two of the folks who got the last of the RC horses are trying to keep up the breeding, so yes, check out the FB page and see if anyone might have a youngster for sale.

I did get to visit the Rushcreek Ranch a couple of times (volunteering at the “reunion” endurance rides) and it’s an amazing place to raise a horse. Part of the reason the horses were so good is that they had hundreds of acres (hills, sand, rock, flat, creeks) to grow up on and just be horses before they began work.

[morgan01]

[QUOTE=trailpal;7670637]
At least one or two of the folks who got the last of the RC horses are trying to keep up the breeding, so yes, check out the FB page and see if anyone might have a youngster for sale.

I did get to visit the Rushcreek Ranch a couple of times (volunteering at the “reunion” endurance rides) and it’s an amazing place to raise a horse. Part of the reason the horses were so good is that they had hundreds of acres (hills, sand, rock, flat, creeks) to grow up on and just be horses before they began work.[/QUOTE]

When we went to Nebraska to get ours – I didn’t know which one I was going to get til I got there but she sent me several papers on several horses to choose from. They brought in about 12 young horses from the range and I went in with them and just walked around them til I found one that I liked. I liked her pedigree and she wasn’t afraid of me. Rushcreek Hollie. Then my husband saw a little charcoal one standing in the back. A little standoffish but she was CUTE!! She was Rushcreek Hope. So they made us a deal to take both of them So we came home with two!! They were not halter broke or anything so we just hearded them into the trailer and off we went.
We had some great times on those girls. Hope sadly died at only age 10 of a heart problem. And Hollie lives with a friend of mine. She bred her a couple of times and rides her as a trail horse. Hollie didn’t like endurance, she wanted to smell the flowers so I placed her with someone that could use a slow trail horse and her breeding. I tried to get her back but my friend won’t part with her. She’s in a good home but I kick myself for not keeping her!! I tell my friend, “if you EVER need to find a place for her or something happens and you can’t keep her, CALL ME and I’ll come and get her.” She will always have a home with either her or me.