Re: Endurance Quarterhorses

["Brehm" <RockingB@worldnet.att.net>]

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From: TDHMonte <elfs@c2i2.com>
To: RockingB@worldnet.att.net <RockingB@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 8:00 PM
Subject: Endurance Quarterhorses


> Hi Susan,
>   This is Dru, from S. Arizona. I ride a 1/2 Quarterhorse
1/2 Arab, he is
>eleven years old, an honest sixteen hands , and more
quarterhorse than arab
>I would say. I have been in endurance for 20 years, riding
and training my
>own horses, I really wasn't sure he would make an endurance
horse, he took
>longer to train and get really fit, his PR's also took a
couple of years to
>improve, but he is finally recovering quicker than he used
to, I should
>mention he is black. He is a real character, very smart and
inquisitive,
>has managed to undo his porta corral and escape numerous
times, I finally
>had to bolt the darn thing together so he couldn't go
roaming at rides, we
>did do Tevis but got pulled for overtime , two minutes at
Michigan Bluff,
>we stopped to help an emergency situation, I know he would
have finished,
>he eats up really tough trails like a deer, boulders and
logs and water are
>nothing to him, he is a "stayer" and a finisher, due to his
size and
>temperment I really don't think we will ever actually win a
race, but we
>have top tenned and he has probably about 1200 miles now.
We call him
>Buddy, his registered name is Karate Blackbelt. He is my
best cowhorse,
>pony horse (we can pony anything !) and he loves to chase
wild cows, and
>even though he will never be fast, I love him and will
continue to
>endurance ride him, and we do all the local parades,
including the Fiesta
>de Los Vaqueros, the Tucson rodeo parade, which he loves.
Dru and Buddy
>:-)
>


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