Brechinadvertiser.co.uk - Full ArticlePublished on 18/05/2013 06:01
RAF Cranwell, normally home to aircrafts, played host to Endurance Great Britain’s third major national ride last weekend.
The event attracted hundreds of riders and horses from across the UK for a competition spread over three days.
Brechin based rider John Thomson and his pure bred Arabian gelding Prince Omar made the journey south to join some of his N&T Group team mates, all of whom were scheduled for the big distance race rides of 160kms over two days, one day 80kms and John and Omar in the 100kms CER one day class.
In a cloudless early morning the mass start went over the line at 07.31 a.m.
For a race ride it was a fairly sedate start due to a short section of tarmac that led into heavily rutted and root laden forest tracks but within a couple of kilometres, nerves had passed and the riders had settled down to a steady but quick endurance trot before the pace shifted up a gear...
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