{"id":1206,"date":"2019-04-25T12:35:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T17:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.distanceridersofmanitoba.ca\/DRM\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2019-04-25T12:37:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T17:37:16","slug":"suited-to-endurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.distanceridersofmanitoba.ca\/DRM\/2019\/04\/25\/suited-to-endurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Suited to Endurance?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Pictured: Darice Whyte on Shalimar Cierra Rose<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> I sold one of my beautiful Arabian mares recently. I have owned Shalimar  Cierra Rose for 10 years and during that time I tried to make her into  an endurance horse. Despite my best attempts it just wasn\u2019t her forte. I  could tell she was thinking \u201chow much further is this crazy lady going  to ride me?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> She certainly wasn\u2019t a 50 mile horse and she had way more whoa than go.  She preferred to show me how well she could jump logs on the trail than  race down the trail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Someone once said to me \u201cthey can\u2019t all be endurance horses you know\u201d. I  thought he was referring to other breeds. Not an Arabian! But yes, he  was right. You just can\u2019t fit a square peg into a round hole. Sometimes it just  doesn\u2019t work even if it is an Arabian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> An endurance horse needs to be sane but also needs to love going down  the trail. Preferably at a manageable speed and not careening down the  trails helter skelter. You also can\u2019t be pushing a horse down the trail for  50 miles. You\u2019ll be just as exhausted as the horse. And well before 50  miles!<br> Along with other things, you want your endurance horse to have a low  resting heart rate and a pulse rate that will recover quickly. If you\u2019re  standing there sponging and cooling your horse for a long time after a  loop trying to drop their heart rate something is off. It could be your  training program, the heat of the day, the heavy horse team that just  trotted by or some other reason that you just can\u2019t identify. If this  continues at each ride you need to make adjustments. And sometimes the  adjustment is another horse better suited to what you want to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Years back when I was looking at selling Tia I had 2 people who were  interested in her ask me if I realized how well Tia recovered. Well I  didn\u2019t then but I sure do now. Cierra taught me that lesson. Endurance  horses are special and yes, some are just naturals. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured: Darice Whyte on Shalimar Cierra Rose I sold one of my beautiful Arabian mares recently. I have owned Shalimar Cierra Rose for 10 years and during that time I tried to make her into an endurance horse. Despite my best attempts it just wasn\u2019t her forte. I could tell she was thinking \u201chow much&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.distanceridersofmanitoba.ca\/DRM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image18.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.distanceridersofmanitoba.ca\/DRM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.distanceridersofmanitoba.ca\/DRM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.distanceridersofmanitoba.ca\/DRM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.distanceridersofmanitoba.ca\/DRM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.distanceridersofmanitoba.ca\/DRM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.distanceridersofmanitoba.ca\/DRM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1209,"href":"http:\/\/www.distanceridersofmanitoba.ca\/DRM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions\/1209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.distanceridersofmanitoba.ca\/DRM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.distanceridersofmanitoba.ca\/DRM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.distanceridersofmanitoba.ca\/DRM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.distanceridersofmanitoba.ca\/DRM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}