Richard Theodore, Chairman
How the program works
2008 Endurance Program Application
American Endurance Ride Conference
"History of the Mariposa Ride"
by Rich Theodore,
CSHA State Endurance Chairperson
Our 2008 ride is already scheduled as a two day ride:
"CSHA Mariposa Elevator Ride" June 28th and June 29th 2008. 25 miler and 50 miler each day.
See you there!
Buck Meadows Boogie
15, 25, 50 mile Fun Ride
April 19th and 20th, 2008
In 1971 CSHA recognized the importance of distance riding and horsemanship and formed an Endurance Rides Committee.
The purpose of this committee is to promote organized endurance rides and distance riding horsemanship.
Distance riding is not new. It is just newly rediscovered. Since the domestication of the horse thousands of years ago, riding has been man's chief means of land travel. It has only been in the fraction of that time that man has been traveling
with the use of mechanical instead of biological power.
Endurance racing as a sporting event goes back more than 100 years. Then races lasted for many days and distances of a thousand miles and more, such as that from Galveston, Texas to Rutland, Vermont, a distance of 1,799 miles, averaging a
distance of 57.7 miles per day (31 days) in 1886.