The daytime temperatures were just above freezing up until the very end of November. The nighttime temperatures were around -8. Nice comfortable weather for horses if not perhaps a little warm. Some of the warmer days they even rolled in the snow to cool down.
The kind of days that make working with the young horses particularly fun. No bugs and just a light jacket. The snow was gradually decreasing, the paddocks were a bit icy but not bad.
Even when they grow old, we are still surprised when one of the legends in our horse world dies. Luckily, Pepinics Master got to sire a good number of nice individuals who will no doubt carry his genes on into the future.
They say if we are lucky that once in a lifetime we will get a great horse. Ed & Connie got a really great horse. Pepinics Master also got a great home and great life in return. We know that their love and respect for this stallion extended beyond his performance and reproductive successes. Ed’s voice would change when he spoke of him. He takes great pride and interest in the successes of all of this great sire’s offspring and their owners and trainers. Our sympathy to Myterra Ranch on this loss.
Visit the Myterra Ranch website home page to view the announcement and view a slide show of Pepinics Master from last winter.
You can view his stallion page on the Myterra website including links to his Lifetime Performance Report and Offspring Performance.
I hear rumblings from some horse people that they think turning horses out on winter pasture is not good for the them. That they are cold and uncomfortable.
I disagree.
With a few protocols, of course.
They should be checked daily and frequently have their ribs and backbone felt, they should have fresh warm water, and they need shelter from the wind such as windboards, forest or sheds. They need to have some fat reserve heading into the winter and the pasture has to have adequate good quality grass. They need to have been exposed to the weather during the fall so they develop a good coat. Continue reading “Winter Pasture – Nov 24, 2016”
At 9.51am local time, Will Comiskey from Australia, Marcia Hefker-Miles from New Mexico and Heidi Telstad from CANADA crossed the line, arms together, to take a triple dead heat in the 2016 Mongol Derby, the world’s longest and toughest horse race.
They gave thanks to the horses, herders and people of Mongolia for an incredible experience and said they wanted to share the experience of winning as a team just as they had shared the experience of the trail.
The pics show the three winners finishing the Mongol Derby and are credited to Richard Dunwoody @ Mongol Derby.
Will Comiskey, 28, ‘Dingo’, a cattle rancher from Longreach , said:
“There were slow ones, there were wild ones, but ****, we had fun!!
Marcia Hefker-Miles, 45, from New Mexico, said her most memorable memory was:
“Riding through a high mountain pass, past a boy and a girl both herding goats; making eye contact with them and waving. I saw myself in that little girl…”
Heidi Telstad, 43, a lawyer from British Colombia, said hers was:
“Camping one night with a poor family; they gave everything they had to spare to me and my horse and treated me as one of their own.”
Next to finish in the Mongol Derby were Tatiana Mountbatten and Venetia Philipps, from the UK and Courtney Kizer from Texas.
Congratulations to all who managed to finish this race but especially to our Canadian Heidi Telstad. We are so proud of you.
The 2016 Mongol Derby, certainly this year living up to its name as the world’s longest and toughest horse race (“and it’s raining again….”) is set for a nail biting finish with any of five riders in a position to take the title.
At horse station 27, the last station before the finish, are William Comiskey, nicknamed ‘Dingo’, a cattle rancher from Australia, alongside Canada’s Heidi Telstad, a lawyer – and these two have been riding together for most of the race. With them is New Mexican cowgirl, Marcia Hefker-Miles.
Photo credited to Richard Dunwoody @ Mongol Derby
Continue reading “Mongol Derby 2016 Set For a Nailbiting Finish!”
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