Join us for an endurance ride in beautiful Belair.

May 10, 2025 
Registration is open at this link: https://zfrmz.com/fx1nAGyvoH0na6Roj8Tm

This is an AERC sanctioned 1-day ride offering a 50-mile Endurance Ride and a 25-mile Limited Distance ride. Horses are subject to vet checks prior, during and after each ride. Prizes will be awarded for 1st Place Finish, Best Condition, High Vet Score, 1st Place Junior and ribbons for 2nd through 5th for the 25 and 50 mile rides.

In addition, an Intro ride of 10 or 15 miles will be offered. This is a great way to try out the sport. Any reasonably fit horse should be able to complete the ride. Horses will have a vet check at the beginning and completion of the ride. These rides are for experience only and have no time limits and no placings but will receive a completion ribbon and their vet card once they pass their final vet check.

Negative Coggins will be required of all horses entered into the ride or entering the Vet area between Friday 5pm and Saturday 830pm.

Google Pin to Belair Forest: https://goo.gl/maps/cqbMzk4ucrMZZUGf8

Directions to Belair from Winnipeg: Head north on hwy 59 towards Grand Beach. At the junction of PR 304 head east (right) on 304 to Stead Rd (mile 44E). Turn north (left) onto a gravel road and go approximately 1 mile. Turn east (right) onto sand road and take to the ride camp. From hwy 12 go north to the Sherwood Esso (community of Gull Lake), turn East onto Stead Rd (mile 95N) and
follow around curve through the community of Stead. Go straight after the stop sign at PR 304 onto gravel road and follow directions above. Signs will be posted. A reminder that this area is shared with ATV clubs and you may encounter them in camp or on the trails.

Ride camp will be primitive camping with no electrical available. There will be drinking water for horses on trail and a limited amount in camp. Please pack as much water as you can forsponging, at your trailer and overnight. Bring all your own  supplies, in addition to your own containment for your horses. Please clean up your horse manure at your camp area (it can be tossed in the bush or taken home with you). An outhouse is near base camp for those in need but no guarantee it will have toilet paper in it.

Base camp will officially open Friday at 5:00 p.m. Camping and day trailer parking is first come first served and unmarked so please be courteous to your fellow riders and don’t block the road. Please let the ride manager know if you plan to arrive on Friday.

Ride Schedule:
Vet in for 50’s will be start Saturday 7:00am. 25’s can start vetting when 50s are finished.

50’s start at 8:00am (Pink 15, trot-by, Blue 10, 45 minute hold, Pink 15, 45 minute hold, Blue 10)

25’s start at 9am (Pink 15, 45 minute hold, Blue 10)

Intros start at 10:00am (either Pink 15 or Blue 10)

The ride maps are available as images below or downloadable gpx files. THERE WILL BE NO PRINTED MAPS AT THE RIDE. When in doubt follow the ribbons or spray painted arrows on the ground. Trail descriptions and maps of each loop are at the end of this page.

General notes

● Pulse criteria will be 64 bpm for the 50 mile and 60 bpm for the 25 mile and intro
horses
● Left turns will be marked with a loop ribbon AND a Green & White ribbon just before
and at your turn. Some tricky turns may be marked with a painted arrow on the
ground.
● Right turns will be marked with a loop ribbon AND a Red & White ribbon just before
and at your turn. Some tricky turns may be marked with a painted arrow on the
ground.
● All dogs must be kept on a leash, tied to your trailer, crated, or confined inside your
trailer/truck while in Ride Camp. Please clean up after your pet.
● Dogs are not permitted near the Vet Gate
● No smoking on the trail, at Vet Gate or at the Manager/Volunteer Canopy
● Lunch and snacks will be provided for volunteers
● Please check back for updates on the trail maps, changes may be required due to
winter damage.

For more information please contact Ride Manager Tricia Mason at triciam11131@gmail.com –
204-266-3555.

Trail Descriptions:

Links to the GPX files:

Click here for the 10 mile GPX link

Click here for the 15 mile GPX link 

Ride Loop Description – 15 mile loop (Pink & White ribbons)

You will head west down the road that brought you into camp and take the trail just on the west side
of camp heading north. You will ride about 1.6 miles north when you will then take a right turn onto a
bush trail. Follow the trail to end then turn right and go a short distance then turn left into the trees
down to the ravine. You will stay on this trail for awhile heading north. You will go past the former
burnt out area. Once you get to the sand pits you will take a left and head directly thru the sand
taking a left at the road and then a right onto a bush trail.

Stay on the main bush trail heading in a northwesterly direction for about 2.5 miles until you get to
the gravel road. There is a gravel pit just slightly north so watch for gravel trucks. Turn left and head
down the gravel road but only a short distance as you will make a right back into the forest.
The bush trail will take you west for about half a mile and then turns south through a cutover area
and then back into the bush.

Stay south until you come to a clearing. Turn right, and stay on that trail for a very short time. Watch
closely for the left turn, as it is a trail less travelled. Stay south on that trail, through the thick oak bluff
and sandy pines until it comes to a wide sandy road. Turn left on to the road. Stay on the road for a
short distance until you come to an intersection. Turn right to continue south and follow as the trail
goes back into the bush for about a mile heading south east. You will come to the gravel road again.
Turn left at the gravel and then right onto the trail (almost directly across the road)

Stay left on the trail which will take you north again on a sandy quad trail. You’ll eventually come to
another cutover. Keep an eye out for the one remaining tree in that cutover that has a tire on it.

Turn right where the trail ends and comes to the road allowance. Follow the trail east for about 1/2 a
mile. You’ll take the second trail to your right to head back south into camp. After about 1 mile you
will come to common trail from when you started the loop. Follow ribbons back to camp.