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Individual Medals
Team Medals
Best Condition Horse
Hurrah! Endurance rocks 
Just to make this complete for the people who care about Endurance:
Individual
Gold - Maria Alvarez Ponton with Nobby
Silver - HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum with Ciel Oriental
Bronze - HE Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum with SAS Alexis
Team
Gold - United Arab Emirates
Silver - France
Bronze - Germany
Best Condition
Hanaba du Bois, ridden by Jean-Philippe FRANCES
Congratulations to all!
Thanks for that! :yes:
I guess I am interested in knowing what happened to all the U.S. Riders?
Here’s what I know:
Jan Worthington: pulled at VG 3, lameness (I believe horse lost a shoe)
Lindsay Graham: pulled at VG 3, metabolics
Meg Sleeper: pulled at VG 4, don’t know why
Heather Reynolds: pulled at Finish, lameness
Not a good day for American Endurance… Hope all horses are recovering well/
But Deb Reich and Juniper made it into the Top 20 and finished sound in place 18. Congrats!
Missed it!
I was looking through the endurance album on coth, and it seemed like quite a few horses were elimintated for lameness. I know nothing about endurance, is this normal for so many to be DQ’ed?
After reading about Mercedes and seeing her on the podium(dressed perfectly despite having ridden 100 miles) I think that USA Endurance might want to hire her husband like UAE did.
Most endurance rides have a completion rate between 70 and 80 per cent, depending on terrain and weather.
Tevis has only a 50% completion rate, probably the lowest of the American 100 mile rides. It’s probably also the “slowest” 100 due to its difficult terrain and the heat in the canyons.
Yesterday’s ride had a completion rate of close to 60%. It was an incredibly fast-paced ride though and my guess is that many of the horses were doing their fastest pace EVER. And since any little rock, a tiny stumble, a rider off balance, can cause lameness at the speed they were going, I’m not surprised so many didn’t finish. There were probably a lot of metabolic issues rather than lameness. We will see once everything is posted. The horse’s heart rate has to come down to a specific number, in this case 64, and the longer it takes, the more time you lose. If it takes longer than a specific time, 30 min for instance, you are pulled. Your horse was most likely ridden too fast and/or not conditioned for that kind of pace. Or, and that’s the worse, there’s actually an underlying medical problem.
If you look at the recovery rates of the winning horse, Nobby, you can see what an incredible horse that is. To have the heart rate come down within a couple of minutes from let’s say between 100 and 120, after cantering or trotting hard for a 20-30k loop, is just incredible. And doing it again, loop after loop… Amazing.
Thanks for that very clear explanation.
Do you know where I can find out Nobby’s breeding and history?
I would also be interested in Nobby’s background. Someone here mentioned he is of Russian blood. Will do some research and find out…
Also wanted to clarify on the completion rates I posted earlier. This includes all endurance distances: 50, 75 and 100 miles. Completion often drops with a longer course and more difficult terrain. However, the New York Times in their article today talks about a 40% completion rate for endurance rides and that just seems wrong. Maybe they had one specific 100 mile ride in mind? Not even Tevis is that low, and that is one of the toughest.
If someone knows what they may have been referring to, please let us know!
I think I saw Nobby’s info on www.allbreedpedigree.com
SBFAR registry? (Spain?) He is 15?
Just checked - SBFAR is French registry. ??
Nobby
Yes, Nobby’s got Russian/Polish breeding (Russians took horses from Polish stud farms)
This background makes great athletes since breeding stock had to perform adequately on the racetrack, not just look good.
