Endurance ride 11 October

On 11th October Rachel & I went to our first Endurance ride - we did the qualifier - 25km

you have a time limit to do the 25km route - BUT its not all about the fastest time.

it also goes on your horses condition. the vet takes the heart rate, checks for soundness etc. then 30 mins after the finish the vet checks the horse again.... and the fastest with fittest horse wins. Because we had not qualified then all we had to do was finish in a time that was after 2hrs but under 3.30hrs.

here are a couple of pictures I took, it was very windy, so we trotted the whole 9km that we did on the beach.

Rachel on Twinkle - have you noticed the "Bach" in the background!

we met Tracy and her daughter, since we could not "win" but just qualify we rode together, which was nice.

Twinkle wanted to gallop at first but soon settled down and was an excellent Endurance horse, she automatically slowed her pace when she was tired, she had the best heart rate when we returned.

Keonoa wearing his ribbon - he did really well and had a heart rate of 40 to begin with, we did the 25km in 2.34.41seconds and he had a heart rate of 48.
Twinkle had the same heart rate of 40 to start, and a time of 2.34.46 but her heart rate was 36! when she got back (she must have been excited at the start LOL) so technically she would have won. - Well Done Twink!

She likes having her picture taken!