Wee B Jelly Bean - Endurance mini

[ehwaz]

So, if you haven’t gotten your copy of Endurance News yet, make sure to check out the story on Jelly Bean, the first mini to complete an AERC ride.
From the facebook post :
Meet Wee B Jelly Bean – Endurance Mini!
Completing one of the American Endurance Ride Conference’s rides can be quite an accomplishment for any horse, but for Wee B Jelly Bean, it was a truly heartwarming athletic achievement. Because Jelly is a miniature horse, and her completion at the Hat Creek Hustle 25-mile ride in Northern California was the first of a kind. Jelly’s owner, Elicia Kamberg of Smartsville, California, discovered there is nothing in the organization’s rules that requires the horse to be ridden during the competition, so after two years of prep and conditioning, Jelly competed being lead by ultra-marathoner Cyd Ross who was on foot! Her ride time was 5:21 for the ride and she got good scores from the vets and pulsed in easily at the finish! Jelly Bean was a rescue who was fairly wild and not people-friendly when Elicia first got her to be a traveling companion to her Arabian endurance horse. Now this mighty mini mare is so fit that she likes to lead rides and not let big horses pass her! Photos by Bill Gore and Elicia Kamberg

https://www.facebook.com/AriatInternational/posts/10154145201443541

So, I know Jelly Bean in really life - on conditioning rides, she routinely passes my 100 mile horse and semi-frequently pulses down faster

[GotMyPony]

That is way too cool. Thanks for sharing!

[gothedistance]

Adorable.

And yes, there is no rule that specifically says you have to ride the horse. You just have to be partnered with the horse. One horse only. I remember reading some tales of way back when that a few enterprising people decided to get competition miles on their horses by ponying one horse during an endurance ride, and riding a second, and then switching on and off. A rule was put in place against that right quick!!

On the Facebook page I love the photo of the vet kneeling down to do the check. Hilarious!

[charismaryllis]

:lol::lol:

[ehwaz]

This is an older video from some conditioning work with Jelly last spring. I still smile everytime I watch it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbZ6BUXX4rU&feature=share

[LaurieB]

I love that! Thank you for sharing it.

[Polydor]

That is awesome! And probably the world’s fittest mini!

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[tabula_rashah]

Things like this are why I love endurance Thanks for sharing