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“PNER Pacific Northwest Endurance Riders”“PNER Newsletter”
April 2014
PNERFAMILY NEWS
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President’s PaddockBy Becky Fiedler
What qualifies us as an endurance rider? Is it someone who puts their horse’s comfort before their own? Do they com-mit to train regardless of the weather? Are they willing to travel, learn to ‘speak’ horse, cultivate a basic understanding of saddle fit, hoof care, nutrition, first-aid, provide health care, feed, housing and other necessities?
There are several equine disciplines whose participants develop all of these skills as horsemen. What sets us apart is the distance- not the distance we travel to a competition or the lengths that we go to prepare ourselves, but the com-petitive distance we have chosen to ride our horses and the hurdles that we over-come to be successful.
The ultimate endurance challenge is the 100 mile in one-day ride. Why would
anyone want to ride in rain/sun/heat/cold/dark of night, exhausted and sore to compete over a twenty-four hour period? It is certainly not for the award! The satisfaction of finish-ing a hundred on a sound but tired equine partner is an exclusive ac-complishment. It is a reflection of the rider; their efforts at conditioning and managing, developing the skills and mindset their horses will need to be a hundred mile horse. It can be the ulti-mate partnering with a horse.
There are significantly fewer hundreds in the PNER area then when I started endurance riding. They require extra effort for ride managers, ride veteri-narians, and crews disproportionate to the number of participants. A re-cent decision by the BoD to remove the annual 100 mile award was an at-tempt to address the issue of the dis-proportional amount of awards for a distance with limited availability in our area (there were four 100 mile rides offered in 2013). The response from the membership was immediate; you want to recognize those who compete at hundred mile distances. A proposal is in front of the BoD to reinstate the award. If we believe that One-Day Hundred’s are essential to our sport, as your response suggests, we need to do more than have an award recog-nizing those riders. How do we help more riders face the challenge of pre-paring and riding a 100 miles? What are some ways that we can provide more opportunities for this unique test of horsemanship, preparation and endurance? It is not two fifties back to back but an exponentially tougher contest. A hundred mile rider is en-durance!
VP CornerBy Tani BatesThank YOUR Ride Veterinarians
Did you know that two of our very own Veterinarian’s volunteered their valuable time to speak at our convention this last January? They did! They did this for you, sharing their knowledge is their gift to you. Do you know that all of the veterinarians that work an endurance ride can make triple or more money if they stay home and work! Yep, it’s true! They drive several hours to get to the ride site and are not compensated for their time and fuel. They do it for the love of the sport and the love of the horse. And you thought they made lots of money working a ride! Most of them also sleep in the back of their car or a cold wet tent. What about standing out in extreme weather conditions! Subzero cold, howling winds, torrential rains and 100+ degrees weather. Think about how much they invested in their education! Gosh, they are crazier than the riders, they don’t get to ride and enjoy the trails either! Some of you think they are there to get in the way of your ride goals. (they probably are, if your not taking care of your horse).
We need to be more appreciative of these individuals who take time out of their busy schedules to make it possible for us to ride in these events. In order to have a ride available, a veterinarian is required. We need veterinarians educated in the nuances of endurance riding. Would you want a small animal vet to show up and try continued on page 3
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to assess your equine partner? I’m not discounting small animal vets, I love mine. I just want an experienced equine vet at the ride. Their unique knowledge is valuable.
What can we do to make their time at the rides more enjoyable? How about a warm cup of coffee, a fresh bottle of water or share your donuts. Maybe they need some help with treating a horse? If we are bad sports and get grumpy towards the vet, we could be at risk for making them reconsider vetting endurance rides. We cannot afford to lose even one of our ride vets. Your president and vice-president would like to set up a scholarship that encourages new veterinarians who are still in school to participate at rides and get a taste of what goes on. This scholarship would help with their expenses to get to the rides.
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Titanium Run, May 17-19
Owyhee Fandango, May 23-25
Oregon Outback, May 24-26
Klickitat - May 31-June1
High Sage BC - June 7
Buckskin Challenge- June 14- Cancelled!
Sunriver- June 21
Silver City - June 28
Rainbow Revisted BC - June 29-30
Cletis: “Well, he Sayd it’us all ok ”Bubba: “I know but SHE sayd its not!”“Is too.” “Is NOT”
Some of you may be familiar with this argument. I know for a fact that I’ve heard a similar one in the back of my car on mul-tiple occasions! It usually continues until the volume becomes unbearable and someone makes it stop but unfortunately, the volume of the argument doesn’t prove its validity. It also makes no difference as to how old the people making the argu-ment are- the “Is too- Is not” still irritates and fails to inform us.
Recently, the Vet committee put together a welfare package that passed the AERC BOD with overwhelming support. Then, almost immediately following that discussion, the Vet commit-tee was approached regarding yet another issue. Omeprazole (GastroGard) has been a subject of much debate in past years. Some of you may remember that our region was instrumental in bringing the discussion to the vet committee about 7 or 8 years ago. Recently, it has become an active debate yet again. In this month’s AERC Endurance News, the Vet Forum takes a look at the pros and cons of using Omeprazole in a very clear and concise way. I think the issue bears repeating here and that it is an opening into a discussion that we need to continue to have in our region. A few of the questions regarding the use of Ulcer medications in the endurance athlete are as follows: 1) As written, our rules state that equine en durance athletes shall compete without the influence of any drug, medication or treatment. 2) Horses with active disease or ulcers should NOT be com-peting in endurance 3) Research is as yet undecided as to the effectiveness of Omeprazole for endurance related ulcers.
Let me begin the discussion by clarifying a few of these issues (and believe me, there are MANY more than the above three that we just don’t have scientific facts to argue clearly). First- we as a sport have decided that we will not go the way of many other equine sports in allowing medications to be given in competing horses. The recent articles on excessive and sad drug use in show ponies and the ever questionable secretive stable practices in thoroughbred track racing are evidence that not everyone holds a hard but ethical line when it comes to the use and abuse of medication in equine sport. I think the line we in endurance drew is something we should be extremely proud
of. However, that line is becoming more and more clouded as the years go by and the level of competition rises. We now allow the use of joint protectants like Adequan and Legend as well as allowing mares to compete on Regumate. There are valid arguments for these exceptions, but they were the first steps down the long and slippery slope. Now we are allowing horses with known metabolic diseases to compete utilizing their medications as well. Again, it has been argued that these horses are being “maintained” using medication and thereby can safely continue to compete. Many vets consider the main-tenance or control of a chronic disease process to be different than treatment of said disease process.
Whether you agree or disagree with the maintenance versus treatment mentality, the issue is now in defining whether we are comfortable with “prevention” versus treatment in the same way as “maintenance” versus treatment mentality, the issue is now in defining whether we are comfortable with “prevention” versus treatment in the same way as “mainte-nance” versus treatment. Omeprazole is dosed according to its use in prevention or treatment and because of this, we could decide that as long as it is used in only a preventative way, it is allowable. Obviously, this does not address how that dosing control is to occur. How do we know if you gave the right dose at the right dosing interval to be “legal”? Good question.
Second: Horses with active ulcers should not be competing. Seems like a common sense statement, right?
Anyone who has had an ulcer knows you DEFINITELY don’t want to be running around with one! So what’s the problem? Well, how do we know the horse has (or doesn’t have) an active lesion? Studies have shown that horses are typically asymptomatic up to a grade 2+ lesion in the stomach. It’s not like we can prescreen during vet in and “see” lesions on every horse. Where does the responsibility lie for keeping the “not feeling 100%” horse out of competition? A vet can’t magically predict a problem at vet in so how do we know which horses mildly ulcerated in the 4 hour trailer ride to the ridecamp and which didn’t and which ones that did will worsen and go down during competition?
Which leads us to the last debate point for this article: How can we say it is ok to use something in a preventative way when we don’t have the research to prove that it even works on the problems we have? This is the crux of the issue for the Veterinary Committee. Members far smarter than myself have spent a lot of time researching and pulling together statistics, studies and articles that argue back and forth about the pres-ence of ulcers in asymptomatic horses on pasture versus the symptomatic horses after rides versus the presence of ulcers before rides but after trailering…and on and on and on.
The facts seem to shake out this way: A HUGE percentage of horses that participate in endurance appear to have some incidence of gastric ulceration. They may or may not be symptomatic. The ulcers are split between glandular ulcers (affecting the area of the stomach that produces acids, mucus, hormones, etc via glands) and ulcers in non-glandular areas of the stomach. According to at least one study, the ulcers in the glandular portion may not respond effectively to treatment using Omeprazole at the treatment dose. In other words, the doses recommended for treatment of ulcers in the stomach appear to work best on lesions in the squamous area and donot appear to have good response to those occurring in the glandular region.
This is important in endurance horses because the continued on page 5
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Vet’s CornerBy Jen Strelkaukas,DVM
AKA “Dr. Jen”
Vet Corner, continued from page 4
appearance of glandular ulcers (at least in studies) has been linked to dehydration and decreased mucosal blood flow from high stress and high levels of activity. The mechanism of action of Omeprazole does not appear to address those issues and therefor healing is not effective for those lesions. Obviously (and unfortunaley) endurance is very likely to produce dehydra-tion and mucosal blood flow derangement resulting from stress and activity. Thus the question remains regarding the use and allowance of Omeprazole. Add to that argument that we have no research that solidly explains the side effects of omeprazole on the probiotic population in the stomach and the distant pos-sibility that there may be electrolyte changes with long term use and you can see why veterinarians are hesitant to whole heartedly endorse its use in endurance. The flip side is that it still effectively prevents the non-glandular ulcers and isn’t some protection better than none?I in no way intend to sway any of you riders in one direction or another regarding this issue. I have voted my conscience and made my opinion clear to the committee as a treating and control vet. This issue is not a simple one and I bring it up to you all as riders to ensure that we have an open dialogue. Part of PNERs mandate is to educate and the more we discuss this the better we will be as a group. We (the vets) cannot make decisions based on how many people are going to use a yes vote on omeprazole to ride on an ulcerated horse because you think it will heal and be no big deal. You as riders cannot go around thinking the vets are just being hardasses and trying to torpedo the chances for a horse to complete by disallowing helpful drugs. We must work together to ensure that the deci-sions we make are not just mitigating discomfort in horses but
preventing it from happening to begin with. We can’t view drugs as ways to get around the natural progression of disease and damage but we need to not overlook the potential good that can come of proper use of drugs as well. I encourage you all to read the article in Endurance News for further opinions and then open a dialogue at your next rides.
Until then: Ride hard; Ride safe; Ride Happy!!
Dr Jen (whose comments in no way reflect anything other than her own warped sense of humor and should not be held against other vets!)
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A Mission for Enduranceby Mary K Krauss
I first noticed Barrak Blakeley in 2009, his third ride-season and our first. He and his family blew by my daughter and me during a warm up ride the day before Owyhee Canyonlands. They made a pretty intimidating sight, all of them mounted on su-premely fit, well-trained Arabs that looked like real racehorses, and all of them unmistakably competent riders, even then-tiny Barrak. Later, back in camp, they were all smiling and friendly enough, but every one of them was focused mostly on caring for their horses. My daughter was then just at the cling-to-the-po-ny-and-follow-mom-who-only-sorta-has-a-clue stage; so spying on the Blakeleys was a little disheartening. Watching their casual professionalism made me glad we’d signed on only for Limited Distance rides.
Barrak tailing MCM Last Dance at Tevis, family photo
However, It was Barrak’s grinning acceptance of the first-place prize on Day Two that made my daughter think she could handle riding 50 miles. “If someone so young can win the whole thing,” she whispered, “I bet Benny and I could at least finish.” A day later, after walking up to accept her own first-ever 50-mile completion award (a rawhide sheep counter), she sat down and clapped and hooted wildly as Barrak strode up to receive his and Midnight’s second first-place award for the week.
I’ve had a quiet fondness for this young man ever since that en-counter, and a growing sense of awe over his successes through the years. Summing him up on paper turns out to be difficult however. I gave up and decided to describe the 15 year-old from Terrebonne, OR as a list of character traits. “Joyful” strikes me as the best word to describe Barrak’s attitude toward horses. Other words that come to mind are “adaptable”, “competitive”, and “knowledgeable”. I’d add “tough” to the list too I suppose, though, like his sister Sanoma who was featured last month, Barrak speaks so lightly about adversities that one almost for-gets how much toil and fatigue he’s gone through in his seven years of endurance riding.
He started at age eight with the 30-miler at Santiam Cascade where he finished fifth out of 34 starters on SRR Flusi. When I asked how he felt about finishing that first ride, he said, “I thought, well, that was ok,...but I can’t wait to do a 50!” So, two weeks later he and his family traveled down to Headwaters of
the Rogue where Barrak and Twin Fir Victor came in fifth out of 40 starters in the 50-miler. After that swift beginning, he has gone on to rack up more than two-thousand miles, on 12 different horses, usually finishing in the top five.
2011 strikes me as Barrak’s most successful season so far, though he’s not had any season that is less than stellar. That year he focused on two horses, Twin Fir Victor and Alias, each of whom earned nothing but top five finishes in nine 50-mil-ers. He confesses, “I do kind of have a favorite horse. I really like Alias. He has lots and lots of character. He is really short--a little grey guy--and he is not super great compared to the others, but he is like a Chihuahua. He is the smallest but he is dominant.”
It was Twin Fir Victor though who carried Barrak to a 21st place, sub-14 hour, Tevis finish in what was perhaps the most unorthodox staging of that famous ride ever. Asked about his mindset during the days leading up to that ride, he said, “first it was delayed by a month, then, two days before the start a snowstorm meant a complete rerouting. Then we had to move to Auburn, set up camp, and rethink our whole strategy. One minute we were all the way up there at Robie already, playing in snow up to our knees, then we were back down in Auburn, running around in shorts!”
Perhaps this experience is part of why Barrak has become so adaptable and philophical. He says, “I’m kind of a competi-tive person, but I’ve learned not to take myself so seriously. And I think I’ve learned most of all to appreciate how amazing horses are. [Endurance riding] has helped me look around and just see how it’s all really beautiful.”
He also has a deep respect for the hazards of the sport, though he sounds wise rather than scared. He mentioned several experiences at Tevis that have made him thought-ful. In 2012, “coming up near Elephant’s Trunk, a sapling that had been all bent by the snow struck my dad’s horse in the eye, then hit my Dad in the shoulder. We thought they were ok, and Dad’s horse [Flammable] pulsed down right away at Robinson. But then his pulse bounced in the vetcheck. That’s when my mom was the one who noticed his eye was hurt. (Flammable recovered and went on to finish many more 50’s.) Garret Ford and his wife said they would go on with me. My horse MCM Last Dance--he’s really huge, about 16.2, real powerful--he had had an abscess a week earlier so we had to use pads. When we crossed the river a bunch of sand worked under there and he trotted out lame at the Quarry, six miles before the finish.”
Barrak describes a more frightening experience for the whole family: “In 2013, remember that horse that fell off Cougar Rock? He was right in front of me. We were the next horses over. That really slowed my mom and dad down. They said they thought about losing my sister over the edge.” Barrak himself thought long and hard after that episode: “I worried about Sanoma. My horse isn’t that sure-footed either, so that’s something to think about.” He also doesn’t take falling off lightly, despite his Dad’s assurances that “being bucked off makes you a good rider!” Barrak says, “I’ve been bucked off a few times--actually, quite a lot of times. It’s unnerving though. You think about the horse falling on your leg, that sort of thing.”
Despite the scary parts, Barrak can barely contain his enthu-siasm for endurance riding: “When I was running through the canyons I was so excited. I really love Tevis. It’s so intense. I’m already signed up again this year.” His secret weapon food-wise? “Regular potato chips because they have a lot of salt,” he says, “I am trying to run more so I sweat and need Continued on page 8
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salt. I tail quite a bit, especially at Tevis. Getting off really helps the horses.”
He is as excited about regular training rides as he is about endur-ance events. Barrak credits neighbor Dolly DeCair for giving him and his family lots of help through the years, and he admires his grandfather Gary Blakeley who “used to ride a lot.” By now though, he says, it’s his mother Gabriella who’s “definitely in charge of the training plan.” He adds, “we all kind of bounce ideas off each other. We try to change the routes so the horses enjoy it. For a hundred we do a lot more long, slower distance. For a 50 we do faster hill work. We don’t open them up all the way much though, because that would break them down too much. We want to break down enough but give them lots of time to rebuild those muscles. We try to do one hour every other day of regenerative, slower trotting.”
Some of these training details sound similar to what many endur-ance riders do to condition their horses, but I was fascinated by a couple of techniques I hadn’t heard of. My favorite involves using baling twine to create a track all the way around the whole barn. Barrack explains, “there are no sharp turns. We can put 12 or 13 horses in there, and then we all help move them. They get really excited and competitive. This builds up the young ones, and it’s regenerative for the older ones. Sometimes Sanoma and I ride in there bareback, but we have to stay in the back so we don’t get trampled!”
Barrak describes another low-tech, truly inspired training method his parents developed: “We have a big lake, a big pond really. You can walk all the way across it. It has great footing. We take the horses out there--we have some we are breaking out there. Indians used to do this! It’s great because they really like it. We do come off because they’re slippery, but it’s safe. Sometimes Sanoma and I slip off and grab a tail. The horses love it. They follow us out there. They even crouch down really low and play. It’s really funny to watch them do that, and the water is a really good workout for them.”
After talking for a long time about playing with, I mean, condition-ing their horses, I asked a little about gear, but that was a short conversation. Mostly the family rides in western saddles for weight training, or in the dressage saddles they train and race in. Bar-rak says, “Pat Richardson, she’s really helped us. She gave me the saddle I use. My sister used a Wintec and now a Collegiate saddle. Mom and Dad had really well-made Keiffer saddles they got in Germany, but Dad now uses a Wintec with a sheepskin. We almost never pad our horses because we ride in really rocky places so they are good on rock. We use curbs usually, sometimes a hack, a few need a Mylar bit.” He adds delightedly, “and I just won a biothane bridle and matching breast collar at the Convention. We just need to pick it up!” He also notes that he “bought a weighted vest, and sometimes I use that and the heavy western saddle in training. It makes a really big difference--in the same way I can tell after my Dad rides my horse even once--next time he feels like I’m easier to carry.”
Barrak’s casual familiarity with training concepts underlies an ap-proach to horsemanship that balances fun with self-discipline. He explains, “I’ve learned a lot of valuable lessons from endurance riding, like how to persevere. You can’t be a fair-weather rider. You have to ride when it’s really hot out, and in the rain and in the snow.” His commitment to endurance means he’s had to give up, at least for now, on after school activities. He says, “I go to a charter High School where I am taking pretty hard classes; some are for sophomores and I’m a freshman, so it’s hard to fit it all in. Track was going to take up too much time.”
In addition to his commitment to endurance riding, Barrak has an even bigger lifetime goal, “I want to be a missionary in another country. My uncle lives in Nicaragua. I’d like to do that. I’d also like to live in Costa Rica or Honduras.” When I asked if he’d still like to ride on his travels, I could almost see his eyes twinkling even
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pine forest with moderate elevation changes. Views of Mt. Adams, geologic features along the canyon wall of the Klickitat River and waterfalls are among some of the rides scenic beauty. Water on the trail is abundant both natural and provided. We provide hay at VC’s. Camping is in the trees with ample room for large vehicles. Water in camp is
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breakfast, lunch and dinner all weekend. Glenwood amenities include fuel, propane, groceries, motel, and restaurant all less than ½ mi. from camp. Awards, sweatshirts to 25 mi. or more completion, T-shirts to fun riders, Top 10, junior,
and more presented each evening after all riders are in. Marilyn’s awards roast always entertaining!
Ride & Tie: Sunday 15 & 25 miles. For more info contact Kirsten Seyferth
[email protected] 310-463-2744
FOR DRIVING DIRECTIONS AND MORE INFO: REFER TO YOUR PNER HANDBOOK OR PNER, AERC WEBSITES OR VISIT US ON FACEBOOK. STILL NEED MORE? CONTACT RIDE MANAGER, MARILYN MILESTONE, [email protected] or
503-459-1253 or TRAILS MANAGER, LEANNE STUDDARD, [email protected] , 360-608-5005
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