BEL: 2004 Belgium National Championship

Leonard Liesens
Endurnace-Belgium.com


The 2004 Belgian National Championship was won by Jacques Boulanger, riding Shannon, an arab-trotter. The L'Ardenaise - CEI ****/***/**/* event was held 27 June at Harre Belgium.

The Harre course is a very very difficult race, taking place in the hilliest part of Belgium, in the south, in the region of the Francorchamps F1 Grand Prix. This is also the region where the famous ?Battle of Ardennes? took place at the end of the WWII.


The course presents an unending up and down with an average altitude difference of 400 meters each cycle.


The Belgian Enduance squad continues is preparations for the upcoming 2004 World Endurance Championships in Dubia next January.

Ride Results Summary
www.endurance-belgium.com

34th Annual Ride and Tie Championship

Pamela Burton
EndurancWorld.net



Challenging, upbeat, and inspiring describe the Ride & Tie Championship held the weekend of June 26th , north of the Northern California coastal town of Ft. Bragg. This area is not easy to get to. Once there, the main road is Pacific Coast Highway, 101, which dashes up and down ravines, barrels around hairpin curves that give a roller coaster view of seaside cliffs and ocean, and under mini forests that all but block the sun. The road, which is often dangerously obscured by fog, is bordered with lupine, sweet pea and tall grasses that even in the drought of summer still bring color to the wind swept land.

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GBR: Newmarket - France wins team title/UAE Finishes 1-2

Newmarket
06.28.04




Shaikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (9:08:51), astride Falene De La Drome, won the Newmarket Endurance Ride held at Newmarket in England yesterday over a distance of 160km with Mubarak bin Shafya (9:08:52), riding Danny Boy, finishing second and third was Cile Demiro Jacbaquat (9:20:45) of France.

France captured team gold with host Great Britian capturing silver. The Royal Bahrain endurance team captured bronze.

Forty riders representing eight countries - UK, France, the UAE, Jordan, Qatar, Italy, Ireland and Bahrain - competed in the Newmarket race.




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USA: 2004 Ride and Tie World Champions

Pamela Burton
EnduranceWorld.net
06.20.04

Majic Sirocco, riden by Jim Howard from Applegate, CA. and Dennis Rinde of Davenport, CA. win the 34th Ride & Tie World Championship in a time of 4 hrs 1 min. The team bested a field of 27 teams throughout the world competing in the Mendiceno

USA: Geronimo's Warrior - First Spanish Mustang with 10,000 AERC Miles

Karen Chaton
06.25.04

Geronimo's Warrior became the first spanish mustang to achieve 10,000 competative miles in AERC sanctioned events.

Riden by owner Don Funk, Geronimo is currently completing the 2004 XP event which is traversing the old pony express trail from Cold Springs Nevada to Rush Creek Ranch in Nebraska. This legacy continues on down the trail.

Australia: Peak Crossing Results and Images

Mal Caldwell
EnduranceWorld.net
6.19.2004

Kristie McGaffin on Magic Glenn Tulgar - winning time 9.29
Photo by Sue Crockett


Touted as the largest event of it's type in the world this year , this ride was an outstanding success.
Held in a picturesque venue with outstanding facilities, the course was challenging and technically demanding, with a combination of testing forest terrain and open plains.

There were more than one hundred nominations for the 160 km and more than 150 nominations for the 80 km ride to be held the next morning.


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Top 5 Finishers (Combined Middleweight and Heavyweight Divisions)

1 AUS  9:28:48  Kristie McGaffin             Magic Glenn Tulgar

2 UAE  9:35:28  Abdullah Khamis Ali Saeed    Red Sonya

3 UAE  9:57:13  Yousef Ahmed Al Bloushi      Bramall Jazzmin

4 AUS 10:02:54  Penny Toft                   Magnum

5 AUS 10:02:55  Peter Toft                   Electra BBP Murdoch 

Australia: The NSW State Championship Endurance Ride

Endurance Success
Friday, 18 June 2004





The NSW State Championship Endurance Horse Ride was held in Harden-Murrumburrah on Sunday, June 13.

The Endurance Club had received over 60 nominations, however, only 49 of them were starters in the ride.

Of these, 21 horses successfully completed the 160km ride to the vet's satisfaction.

First place in the Heavyweight division was rider number 22, Rex Cox riding 'Bennalong Nile King' in just over 14 hours with Laurie Stevens, rider number 48 on 'Snowy Mountain Cascade' crossing the finish line in just over 15 hours.

In the Middleweight Division 'Just U Wait' was ridden home first by rider number 28, Gail Finlayson in 11 hours and 37 minutes with rider number 7, Duncan McLaughlin on 'Revelwood Shaja' second in a time of 13 hours and 52 minutes.

The Lightweight Division winner was split between Carol Griffiths, rider number 3 on 'Alhambra Jazz Dancer' and Julie Brooks, rider number 11, on 'Harmere Lahsa' in an equal time of 11 hours and 37 minutes.

In the junior division, Nicole Whitehead was rider number 2 on 'Kelkette Park Lydia' who also rode home in a time of 11 hours and 37 minutes.

Second in the juniors was Alix Jones, rider number 47 who rode 'Dammah' to finish in a time of 13 hours and 31 minutes.


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