Don’t know if this has been asked before. I don’t get to see many endurance horses ie serious competitors. (of which I am not and never will be). I would like to see conformation shots/whatever - ie body shots without saddle - to see topline and muscling.
Photos of horses/folks on COTH and others would be great.
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Don’t know if this has been asked before. I don’t get to see many endurance horses ie serious competitors. (of which I am not and never will be). I would like to see conformation shots/whatever - ie body shots without saddle - to see topline and muscling.
Photos of horses/folks on COTH and others would be great.[/QUOTE]
not sure I have any… I’ll look when I get home. my horse isn’t a ‘serious’ competitor… and the gelding I competited on isn’t competing… he does cav stuff. but I’ll take a gander for personal pics when I get home.
Th. He isnt a top competitor, but he has about 1200 miles and a bunch of LD too. We tried Tevis a few years ago but he came up a little lame and we didnt finish. He is now 14 and 3/4 Arab, 1/4 Saddlebred. A great horse 
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My pc died last fall, so I’m still trying to find all my pics of endurance horses (mine included) I am terrible for labelling CDs. I’ll happily send some your way once I manage to get them all reloaded again.
Th
World class record I believe is 6:32 for the hundred and I beleive this picture is taken from that race.
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World class record I believe is 6:32 for the hundred and I beleive this picture is taken from that race.[/QUOTE]
holy crap!!! I never knew that… that’s actually very impressive.
Cool Thread, I’m interested in seing pics too! I’ve only known a handful of endurance people and their horses and they were 25/50 milers. All the horses were very much the equivelant of a human marathoners.
(Being a standardbred person I’ve always got my ear out for those that ride stb’s or stb/arab crosses but that’s about as far in depth to the sport I’ve inquired :winkgrin:)
Actually you do want a little weight on the horse to tide him through the ride. Look at the horses on the intro on the new WSTR page:
http://www.teviscup.org
Since the page is all redone, you can’t see the best conditioning judging pictures from the last few ears right now. I’m sure they will be up soon. Topline is very important with respect to back soundness. That is one of my goals - to have my horse learn to lift his back while traveling down the trail.:Dv
Here’s my guy, he’s doing 50’s and 75’s
Yes, Tennessee Walkers can TROT
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Any my favorite pic:
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m206/Endurogirl/Jubilees%20Windwalker/bregosunriver75.jpg
You two are glowing in your favorite pictures. Here’s wishing you have many wonderful miles together! Thanks for sharing.
Don’t have any without – except what was published in Bruce Smart’s book “Community of the Horse - Partnerships” (Book 1) – photo being taken at the final vet check after an OD 50. 
If you don’t have the book I’ll see if I have the photo on the old computer.
Here is the same pony, several years later at age 18 – being the “poster boy” for a 2008 AERC ad (see below). Here’s another of him foxhunting (also 2008). Even though he is gray, you can clearly see the muscling on his whole body – especially when compared to the other foxhunters who don’t show anywhere NEAR his conditioning.
Muscled? You bet. Like a QH? Nope. Like a race horse? Nope either. Sort of a cross – bulk up from conditioning on long trots up the mountains, yet lean enough to take him effortlessly for 50 miles on all sorts of terrain.
He is now 19 year old, a Welsh/Arab, 1,470 AERC endurance miles, 50 LD miles. Still competing after 9 years in the sport. Still foxhunting, too.
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Muscled? You bet. Like a QH? Nope. Like a race horse? Nope either. Sort of a cross – bulk up from conditioning on long trots up the mountains, yet lean enough to take him effortlessly for 50 miles on all sorts of terrain.
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Cool pic!
yeah, I’d agree with that! Maybe it depends on if you have a FEI type horse which is pretty much like flat racing vs. a horse that goes up in the mountains a lot and is more of a traditional AERC endurance horse. My horse has a really powerful hind end and is very well muscled. A lot of race horses seem to move more from their front end.
I’ve noticed a lot of the original “old fashioned” endurance horses looked a lot like my guy. Most doing AERC rides still do today. They have a strong top line and are beautifully muscled – not the straight necked, rank thin, thoroughbred-looking Arabs being raced on the UAE desert.
Give me a good mountain climb’n horse anyday!
Th
My longest running guy Strider with my daughter up just before the start of the Dufferin Forest 50.
This guy carried me a heavy weight for 17 years and over 30,000 logged miles before I decided to retire him before I hurt him. NOt a single day was he down for lameness in all that time nor required a vet , other then the herd plan in all that time.
A great little horse still running strong.
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Tks for the photos - some lovely horses for sure.
Shadow - your post no. 5 - I think I have read about that horse and rider - I think in the COTH mag - but cannot recall the breed of the horse. (or name of rider).
That horse is “seriously going to town!”.
Here’s an Arabian horse I leased last year. He’s a veteran of 500 mile rides as well as somewhat shorter rides. In this pic he’s 19 years old, about 80% legged up for a 30 mile CTR. Crabbet lines. I leased him because he’s gotten a little tough for his rider, who has a heart condition.
omg that looks just like an old gelding I used to ride… wow… (nope not him though Rio is in Ca) still creepy
As is mentioned before, alot depends on the type of terrain. You can’t do the Tevis in 6+hrs., but that pic was from a UEA “race” and it’s all flat, groomed surface – very much like an actual racetrack. That’s why they can make those times.
Still, if you look at one of the last photos in the Tevis Page Intro, it has all the Top Ten horses lined up for the final trot out. If you look at those horses, they are all very lean.
Year before last I went to the AERC championship because I wanted to see Heraldric and other top endurance horses. He looked like an Akhal Teke in terms of his body shape! Long(er) and lean.
While I was there I attended a clinic given by Stagg Newman and he had some great stories to tell. We got on the subject of “great horses,” and it was his opinion that there are definitely “horses for courses,” as they say on the racetrack – some horses excel at mountain rides, others on the flat.
Obviously the ones who do hills so well are going to be alittle more muscular I would think.
Shadow – your grey horse is just lovely! How old was he in that photo? What was his breeding?
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Shadow – your grey horse is just lovely! How old was he in that photo? What was his breeding?[/QUOTE]
Echo was 4 in that picture and he died an untimely death. I don’t know his breeding but his brother was on the Canadian endurance team and Shadow my guy I just recently lost was from the same barn, same bloodlines. Both great horses.
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I love that deep croup on her.
