RATON, N.M. (AP) – After her first 26-mile endurance horseback ride, Marcia Hefker was so tired she fell asleep by the campfire. “Someone had to wake me up because the bottom of my tennis shoes were ...

Big Sky Country was settled by people on horseback, and the state has always been associated with the days when cowboys rode from horizon to horizon with just their horses for company. A small group ...

RATON — After her first 26-mile endurance horseback ride, Marcia Hefker was so tired she fell asleep by the campfire. “Someone had to wake me up because the bottom of my tennis shoes were smoking,” ...

La PINE, Ore. (KTVZ) – Central Oregon is set to host the 2024 American Endurance Ride Conference’s (AERC) National Championships. This amazing equestrian event will feature 50-, 75- and 100-mile rides ...

Frank Hopkins of “Hidalgo,” a movie about a 3,000-mile horse race across the Persian desert, meet your replacement: Ava Depizzol. Well, not really. Although the Helena Middle School sixth-grader is ...

NEWMARKET, UNITED KINGDOM — Margaret “Meg” Sleeper, who was a last-minute substitution, was the highest placed American at the Longines FEI World Endurance Championship on Saturday, Aug. 25. The day ...

If you love hacking with your horse, then taking part in an endurance ride could be the natural next step. It is a very accessible sport, with events taking place all around the country. Any rider and ...

When visitors come to ride horses with Bonnie Swiatek at her home in Rogers Canyon, the first thing she does is point at the steep hill shooting up outside her dining room window. “I’ll ask anybody ...

After riding a horse almost nonstop for 24 hours over grueling terrain, the first thing Walnut Creek's Gary Fend did was grab a beer. "There wasn't any champagne," Fend says. But he would have ...

A 'stalwart' equestrian rider died after falling from her horse during an endurance event, in what her friends have described as a 'freak accident'. Geraldine White, 76, suffered a bad fall from her ...