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 ...

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,” ...

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 ...

The Mongol Derby is an equestrian endurance race and world's longest horse race Ulaanbaatar: Two UAE endurance riders Sheikh Khalifa Al Hamed and Issa Al Khiyari concluded their historic participation ...

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 ...

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 ...

First Endurance rider Jan Bakelants (Radioshack) won stage two as well as the yellow jersey at the Tour de France today, becoming the first First Endurance Yellow Jersey rider. With 1800 meters to go ...

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 ...

Margaret Sleeper of Kingwood Township, N.J. was slated to make her third FEI World Equestrian Games appearance in Normandy, France on Aug. 28, with her own Syrocco Reveille. However, after being ...

She has completed and won dozens of endurance rides around the U.S. and in France. She and her horse Jackson recently rode the Tevis Cup, a brutal 100-miler from Truckee, Nevada, across the Sierra ...