Pictured: Kat Irvine on her new horse, Time to Shine (Sunny) Spruce Woods Provincial Park south of Brandon, Manitoba is one of my favourite endurance venues. Trails run for miles through semi-arid terrain, featuring mixed-grass prairie and shifting sand dunes. Occasionally, you come across unlikely plants and strange creatures like the hognose snake. It has…

Pictured: Tanya and Desi coming in at the end of the 25 mile ride From the desk of a rider brand new to DRM and to Endurance, Tanya Wieler: The day was beautiful, the weather was perfect! Desiree, my daughter, and I, had been talking about trying an endurance ride since last May when we…

Pictured: Trish Leiman Forde on Koda (Mustang) I’m not going to talk about the ride part of Spruce Woods as I couldn’t ride it and I’ve asked others to comment on that part. I do want to talk about the event. WOW! What an awesome turnout!! We had riders from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The…

This ride recap is brought to you by Andy Dunlop, as Darice Whyte is off to race Tevis 2018!!  I hope her faith in my storytelling is justified and you enjoy this recap from a LD (limited distance) rider’s perspective.  I had done endurance with DRM when Cynder was 5 for a few years and…

Pictured: Volunteers, Josephine Bima and Janine Thomson heading out to demark trail, and Michele Bourgoin waiting to take pulses on the next batch of horses to arrive. From the desk of Ride Manager, Elizabeth Bima: Belair went off without a hitch! The curse is broke 😁. Thank you to all the generous volunteers who gave…

Pictured: Wendy Carnegie on Myna’s horse, “Disco”, and Colleen Perkins (of Merrickville, Ontario) on Wendy’s horse, “Bolt”.   To say the ride at Souris Bend was hot would be a gross understatement! The heat was one thing but the humidity added to the fun! I’m sure the temperature drove away a few but there are…

Note to self: don’t wait too long to do a recap of a ride as now there were other rides in between and I will probably mix them up! The first day of the ride at BHP was rather wet however it was not freezing so other than being wet it wasn’t too hot and…

Well what would an endurance ride be without plenty of drama? The extreme dry conditions threatened to cancel our ride. Then small fires seemed to be breaking out everywhere which didn’t help matters. An overnight camping ban added to the mix and things were looking quite dismal. But wait! Carrie Schellenberg Wilson wasn’t ready to…

From Darice… Ride season is almost here!  Are you ready??? If yes wonderful and if no well what the heck are you waiting for??? Actually if you’re not ready we do have shorter rides to get you ready for the longer ones. AND if you don’t know where to start we have mentored rides available….

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