September 1st, 2018
The almost-all Ride & Tie Episode of the
Endurance Horse Podcast - Episode 11
Hello and Welcome to Endurance Horse Podcast!
I’m your host, Christina Hyke, an equine photographer in Southern Wisconsin. Occasionally you will hear me chatting with Jim, my husband,
during the intro or outtro of the podcast.
Episode 11 of the Endurance Horse Podcast is being published the
1st of September 2018.
Email your audio stories to endurancehorsepodcast@gmail.com
Ideally the files should be from two to 7 minutes in length.
Melissa Coolich
Coolich Endurance
Coolich Endurance on Facebook
Courtney Krueger
Ride and Tie
Iron Mountain
Keisha Wood
Keisha’s Blog is:
Don’t Forget to Hold On!!!
Melinda Newton
Dr. Mel Newton Blog
Wild West Endurance Company
Western States Trail Run
Tevis Cup
Dr. Mel Newton: The running, riding, writing veterinarian on FB
Rachel Greely
Mounted Orienteering
Endurance Horse Podcast
Join the Group on Facebook
About the creator of the Endurance Horse Podcast:
Christina Hyke is a Wisconsin based Equine photographer who also happens to love the trails and distance riding enough to create a podcast about it to share stories with other riders from around the world.
Email your audio stories to endurancehorsepodcast@gmail.com
Ideally the files should be from two to 7 minutes in length.
www.christinahyke.com
Signing off for now, and until next time- remember- enjoy the beauty in the journey, notice the little things and encourage one another.
( & send me files please )
August 30th, 2018
Endurance Horse Podcast Episode 10
Featuring Tevis 2018 Part 2
Jenny Chandler and SMR Filouette
ERIN GLASSMAN PS Arikaree Bask (Rio)
Erin's Blog
Daryl Owen
The Distance
Darice Whyte
Writes for Arabian Horse World
Twisted Tales
Melanie Martin
MD Royal Titan
Keisha Wood
Don’t Forget to Hold On!!!
Tevis 2018 Part 2 Episode 10 of the Endurance Horse Podcast
is being published the 30th of August 2018
This is the second of three espisodes with the featured audio files being those from Tevis.
The song at the begining is:
Good Life by Love & The Outcome
The song is avaialbe on on iTunes.
I hope you enjoy the show notes for links to websites and also to blogs!
If you like the podcast, please find us also on our Facebook group where we share more stories and photos about our horses and our rides:
Endurance Horse Podcast on Facebook
Email your audio stories to endurancehorsepodcast@gmail.com
Ideally the files should be from two to 7 minutes in length.
The Endurance Horse Podcast is sponsored by www.christinahyke.com
August 29th, 2018
Endurance Horse Podcast Episode 9
Featuring Tevis 2018 Part 1
ERIN GLASSMAN PS Arikaree Bask (Rio)
Erin's Blog
Jenny Chandler and SMR Filouette
WHITNEY WEST and AWC Aquavit (Aqua)
For more on Whitney and Aqua look up
Rhed Mares on Facebook
Sarah Rinne and Silver Valley Tate (Tate)
Team Tate
Rinne Hay Service
NATRC on Facebook
North American Trail Ride Conference
KAREN CHATON and Pro Bono D
Karen's Blog
Tennessee Lane and TM Burning Bridges (Bluff)
SoCo Endurance
SoCo Endurance on Facebook
Remuda Run
Remuda Run on Facebook
Tevis 2018 Part 1 Episode 9 of the Endurance Horse Podcast
is being published the 29th of August 2018
This is one of two espisodes with the featured audio files being those from Tevis.
The song towards the end is by Mary Ann Kennedy.
Mary Ann gave us permission to share her songs on the podcast. Mary Ann's songs are sold on iTunes. Please visit her site Mary Ann Kennedy she caters to the equine world.
Right after the song by Mary Ann Kennedy you will hear my Ride Report with my special friend, Tara Leroy where we try out some new phone tech to record a phone call between the two of us. Of course we had to wait until we had a quiet moment after chores were done (though quite honestly, probably not dishes), kids were to bed and husbands tucked in bed too.
We had a chance to remember the ride we had just a few short weeks ago at the Louise Riedel Memorial Bra Buster ride. The story goes that something had been lost on the trail; Louise took her bra off to mark the spot where it had been lost. Though I never knew Louise; I know she was a horsewoman with over 17,000 AERC miles and she is sorely missed by her friends who host this ride in her honor.
It seems so fitting that this ride- that is in memory of a friendship- should be the ride first ride that Tara & I completed together.
Another bit of trivia- both Jr and Mariah were the first horses that Tara or I had bred. Very different horses; though still just one of the many things that made Bra Buster 2018 special to both of us. Jr is 15 and Mariah is 14. Jr (Mandate for Gold) is a Georgian Grande (Saddlebred x Belgian draft) and Mariah Moment is Anglo-Arabian (TB x Arabian). Yes, we were quite the odd pair trotting down the trails!
I hope you enjoy the show notes for links to websites and also to blogs!
If you like the podcast, please find us also on our Facebook group where we share more stories and photos about our horses and our rides:
Endurance Horse Podcast on Facebook
Email your audio stories to endurancehorsepodcast@gmail.com
Ideally the files should be from two to 7 minutes in length.
The Endurance Horse Podcast is sponsored by www.christinahyke.com
August 7th, 2018
Endurance Horse Podcast - Episode 8
Hello and Welcome to Endurance Horse Podcast!
I’m Christina Hyke, an equine photographer in Southern Wisconsin!
Episode 8 of the Endurance Horse Podcast is being published the 7th of August 2018.
While I have been promising you an all Tevis episode, this one, is not quite it yet! We are waiting another week or two to be sure we have gathered all the audios and then will create the podcast. The good news is that this will likely be TWO episodes all from Tevis riders and crew. I promise, it is worth the wait!
Meanwhile- we WILL be starting out this episode with an audio file from Tevis rider, Erin Glassman. Erin was kind enough to send audios about her journey to and prep for the Tevis. The first audio you will hear on episode 8 will be from Erin, and one more on her journey will we near the end of the podcast.
I realize the audio said to stick around until the end & I would share some updates from my story as well. That did not happen- and what did happen was that after I had the WHOLE podcast done, the software had issues & it took me a few hours to sort it out…. And I just wanted to wrap things up.
The updates I can share is that Jim & I have been doing our 5k runs and even got in an 8k VERY HILLY trail run this past weekend! We are enjoying them very much!
I am planning on camping and going to my first LD in two years- updates on that when I do the next episode. The short & sweet of it is that I’m bringing a horse back that has been out of the loop like I have for about 2 years. Wish us luck, send good vibes, prayers etc…I’m hoping to turtle!
To all the riders who take the time to record and send in, THANK YOU SO MUCH, because without you- there is no podcast.
Without further ado- I am happy to bring to you, Episode 8 of the Endurance Horse Podcast
Please check the show notes for links to websites and also to blogs.
Without further ado, I am happy to bring to you, Episode 8, of the Endurance Horse Podcast.
Email your audio stories to endurancehorsepodcast@gmail.com
Ideally the files should be from two to 7 minutes in length.
Erin Glassman
The Trip Out West: The First Leg of the 2018 Tevis Adventure
Prairie Sylvania Arabians
Jane Waterman Moss
Horse Sport Ireland
2018 World Equestrian Games
Carol Wagner
AQHA
UMECRA
American Endurance Ride Conference
Courtney Krueger
Ride and Tie
Old Dominion Ride
Keisha Wood
Keisha’s Blog is:
Don’t Forget to Hold On!!!
Ride and Tie
Susan Smyth Jackson
Coolest Ride & Tie 2018
Ride & Tie
Coolest Ride & Tie on Facebook
Susan Smyth Jackson- Email
Older Article about Coolest Ride & Tie with Great pics
Sandy Sickles
http://www.greenbeanendurance.org/p/about.html
Karen Chaton
Karen’s Musing & Endurance Ride Stuff
Erin Glassman
The Trip Out West: The First Leg of the 2018 Tevis Adventure
Prairie Sylvania Arabians
Endurance Horse Podcast
Join the Group on Facebook
Facebook GroupAbout the creator of the Endurance Horse Podcast:
Christina Hyke is a Wisconsin based Equine photographer who also happens to love the trails and distance riding enough to create a podcast about it to share stories with other riders from around the world.
Email your audio stories to endurancehorsepodcast@gmail.com
Ideally the files should be from two to 7 minutes in length.
www.christinahyke.com
Until next time, may you always find beauty in your ride.
July 23rd, 2018
Episode 7
Hello from Wisconsin & Welcome to Endurance Horse Podcast!
Episode 7 is being published on the 23rd of July 2018
I am your host, Christina Hyke- a Wisconsin based Equine photographer who also happens to love the trails and distance riding enough to create a podcast about it to share stories with other riders from around the world.
Here, we gather to cheer each other on, share stories and to make connections with riders from around the world. It is, in a sense, a virtual ride camp. I once had a friend ask me, “What does this podcast give to me that facebook doesn’t?” And my simplest answer was this, ‘Your hands, eyes and feet.” You don’t need any of them to listen in to the podcast, all you need is your ears.
I’m happy to bring to you a special treat in Episode 7, really it is Jenny Chandler who has taken the time to create a special file with an icon of the Endurance world, Potato Richardson. It is this file that spurred on an additional call for more audio files to create yet another episode in July- we wanted to share the audio sent in from Jenny and Potato before Tevis.
We are also going to, for the first time - hear from/about Ride and Tie competitors, we are going to hear updates from the Midwest and Coolich Endurance, the Southwest from Keisha, a great update from Marvel Endurance at the State Championships Down Under and we will be welcoming another rider to the podcast- Erin Glassman.
Please check the show notes for links to websites and also to blogs.
Without further ado, I am happy to bring to you, Episode 7, of the Endurance Horse Podcast.
Email your audio stories to endurancehorsepodcast@gmail.com Ideally the files should be from two to 7 minutes in length.
Your host is Christina Hyke. Christina is a wife, mom, friend, equine photographer and life long horsewoman.
www.christinahyke.com
Potato Richardson
https://www.potatorichardson.com
Victoria Clark - Marvel Endurance Team
https://www.facebook.com/marvel.endurance.team/
https://marvelendurance.wordpress.com
https://www.faraway.asn.au/easter-endurance-carnival/
http://stirlingscrossingendurance.asn.au
Melissa Coolich
Coolich Endurance
Keisha Wood
Keisha’s Blog is:
Don’t Forget to Hold On!!!
Ride and Tie
Green Bean Endurance Team
http://www.greenbeanendurance.org/p/about.html
Courtney Krueger
East Coast Championships 24-25 August 2018 Iron Mountain Jubilee!
Ride and Tie
Erin Glassman
Erin’s Blog-2 Weeks and Counting
Prairie Sylvania Arabians
Email your audio stories to endurancehorsepodcast@gmail.com Ideally the files should be from two to 7 minutes in length.
Your host, Christina Hyke is a wife, mom, friend, equine photographer and life long horsewoman, signing off and saying
ride far, ride well, ride often.
www.christinahyke.com
July 7th, 2018
Hello & welcome to Endurance Horse Podcast!
This episode is the first topic specific episode of the
Endurance Horse Podcast. In this episode riders are sharing stories on the topic of what we call here
in the US, a Rider Option pull. A Rider Option pull is when your horse has successfully gone
through the vetting process, though you feel that for some reason, you should not go on. In other countries this is called a ‘Withdrawl’.
At the end of the podcast I will share about two times when I decided
to Rider Option, once on Faith in 2016 and once on Mandate for Gold in 2011.
Sometimes the stories we share on the podcast are fun and uplifting, so it did give me a bit of a pause to decide to tackle a not so uplifting aspect of Endurance riding, stories about the days when things did not go as planned.
We share the Rider Option stories in Episode 6 in hopes that we will give courage to someone who in the future who maybe faced with that feeling that something just isn’t right with their horse in hopes that the stories you hear here today will help you make that choice if there is ever a day when you are faced with that nagging feeling in your gut, even though all seems to be okay on the outside. I also hope that this episode will lend peace of mind to some of you who had decided to withdraw, or not start a ride- that you made the right decision.
In any case, at some point or another- if you ride long enough- there is a chance there will
Be a day when you just are not sure. Yes, to finish is to win, though somedays it is best to stop, play it safe and follow your gut instinct.
Thank you to the riders who were willing to share your stories that were difficult to share.
Without further ado, I bring to you episode 6 of the Endurance Horse podcast.
To send in your story to Endurance Horse Podcast please send an email to:
endurancehorsepodcast@gmail.com
July 4th, 2018
Endurance Horse Podcast
Episode 5
Welcome to Episode 5 of Endurance Horse Podcast
Hosted by Christina Hyke
Sponsored by Christina Hyke Photography, LLC
Welcome to Episode 5! Today is July 4th 2018. In the United States it is a time for family and friends to get together, cook out and celebrate. There will be parades, festivals and fireworks. Today we are heading to a race to cheer on two of our older sons in the Whippet City Mile run that is right before the start of the 4th of July Parade, then out to the lake to enjoy a barbecue with my brother and family. Though, since many of you maybe traveling this weekend, I thought it a good day to get episode 5 galloping out onto the airwaves. So, here you go and I hope you enjoy the audios, I hope you find inspiration, laughter, joy, encouragement, empathy and most of all a feeling of all being a part of the same journey and the most I wish for you is that you enjoy the ride.
Thank you to everyone who made it possible for this episode to be pulled together, and especially to two wonderful midwestern women, Laurie and Beth. Both ladies ride in the Midwest region of the US, both are from WI and I have had the privilege of chatting with both of them on the trails. When I needed two more files to complete this episode it was Beth that was first to answer the call, and then she suggested Laurie, whom I have met on the trail- and she is truly a ray of sunshine. I am so glad that I waited and got the audios from these two midwestern treasures.
Thank you to everyone who took the time to send in. To all of you who send files in, I know how busy everyone is- thank you for helping me create this podcast and share the world of endurance riding and bringing together riders from across the globe.
When I started this podcast I had the idea that it would be a positive in the endurance world, focusing us on what brings us together- the love of a good horse and a beautiful trail, the challenges we face, the goals we set and maybe above all- that we see that, as riders, and really, as people, we all have a lot more in common than not. And just maybe, this podcast would even bring some of us closer together online & in real life.
On June 8th, my mother’s birthday, I saw a share worthy post and shared it. The post was from Potato Richardson, and that he had a horse available for Tevis- I shared the post on the Endurance Horse Podcast.
One of the riders in the Endurance Horse Podcast group saw the opportunity and landed the ride on the horse. I know several of you are going to Tevis and it would be amazing if some of you got together around an actual campfire or met each other at the ride meetings.
Here is some additional good content from these wonderful endurance riders that submitted to Episode 5:
Jane Moss
The Shepherd Center
Biltmore
World Equestrian Games 2018
Beth Frieders
Endless Valley Endurance Ride 2018
Jenny Chandler
Tevis Cup
Fort Howes Endurance Ride
Kat of Marvel Endurance:
Marvel Endurance
Marvel Endurance Facebook
Nanango Endurance Ride
Melissa Coolich
Coolich Endurance
Biltmore
Glacier Trails 2018
ApDra 2018
Bec Radny
West Coast Arabians
Sharon Andrews
Welcome Arabians
Caja del Rio Endurance Ride
Fort Stanton Endurance Ride
Keisha Wood
Don’t Forget to Hold On
Caja del Rio Endurance Ride
Fort Stanton Endurance Ride
Green Bean Endurance Team
Daryl Owen
The Distance
This Podcast is paid for and sponsored by:
Christina Hyke Photography, LLC
www.christinahyke.com
Thank you for listening to Episode 5! I hope you share this with your friends and grow with us.
Please subscribe & rate us on iTunes and email your stories to me at :
endurancehorsepodcast@gmail.com
The Endurance Horse Podcast
Life is a journey, enjoy the ride.
May 21st, 2018
Endurance Horse Podcast
Episode 4
Welcome to Episode 4 of Endurance Horse Podcast
Hosted by Christina Hyke
Sponsored by Christina Hyke Photography, LLC
In Episode 4 we are going to hear from fascinating riders from across the globe. We are going to hear Daryl Owen’s National Championships ride report from New Zealand. Also from New Zealand, Jenny Chandler’s first time sending in an audio file, another wonderful Marvel rider from down under, Kat & her musical ways (thanks to Kat, I had several songs stuck in my head for days). We will also hear from the land of Billy the Kid, thanks to our wonderful south west rider, Keisha Wood, be sure to check out Keisha’s blog for more updates, stories and photographs on her journeys.
We will also hear from Tennessee Lane, be sure to check out her SoCo Endurance page & links listed here. Also, I had reached out to several ride managers to send in an audio telling us about their ride, and I heard back from a rider to tell us all about the great Shore to Shore Ride in Michigan. This is the first of what I hope to be more, if you would like to feature your favorite endurance ride on the podcast, please email me and I will send you the interview guide for the ride management.
All of this and so much more, including an update from one of our precious young riders, and also an intro/first time file from Karly, down under. We would also like to welcome Amanda from Virgina with her three horses, Candy (POA), 1/2 Arabian son of Candy & Oliver who was recently pulled from a feedlot. Oliver is an Egyptian Arabian. We will hear from FEI Endurance rider Melissa Coolich of Coolich Endurance. She has an amazing story of overcoming a health crisis to be able to compete. Thank you to Melissa for her inspiring story of healing and sharing your passion for endurance. I’d also like to welcome Lindy Griffith of Florida, and her Rocky MTN Maxwell and Chief (Arab/Rocky MTN). These sound like wonderful horses to ride.
Be sure to send me some more audio files, I will create the episodes as I get the files in! We all enjoy listening in, so please be brave & share your story.
Here is some additional good content from these wonderful endurance riders that submitted to this fourth episode:
Melissa Coolich
Coolich Endurance
Kat of Marvel Endurance:
Marvel Endurance
Marvel Endurance Facebook
Teney Lane:
SoCo Endurance
SoCo Endurance Facebook
Remuda Run
Remuda Run Facebook
Keisha Wood
Don’t Forget to Hold On
Green Bean Endurance Team
Daryl Owen
The Distance
Shore to Shore
http://www.shore2shoreride.com
http://www.gldrami.org
Garey Lake Trail Camp
Shore to Shore Ride Flyer
Christina Hyke Photography, LLC
www.christinahyke.com
Thank you for listening to episode four and I hope you share this with your friends and grow with us. Please subscribe & rate us on iTunes or Podbean and email your stories to me at :
endurancehorsepodcast@gmail.com
I would love to hear your stories of your endurance journey from your part of the world.
Until episode #5 I wish you all happy trails! Ride far, ride well, ride often.
(P.S. I still need 2 to 4 files for the Rider Option Episode, please send a file)
April 25th, 2018
Endurance Horse Podcast Episode 3.0
I’m so glad you could join us!
In Episode 3 we are going to hear some updates, meet some riders we have not heard from before including a Buckskin Mustang that found his way to Germany. We have two ride managers in episode 3 as well as a few walks down memory lane. We will also hear an update from one adorable, very young rider that I hope will continue to send in files throughout the season! And, I have a quick intro, special outro for you.
Spring has finally sprung in Wisconsin, so I’m so happy to feel free to start conditioning. We seem to have a bumper crop of frogs & mosquitos already! May the frogs win!
Email your audio stories to endurancehorsepodcast@gmail.com Ideally the files should be from two to 7 minutes in length.
Your host is Christina Hyke wife, mom, friend, equine photographer and life long horsewoman, ride far, ride well, ride often.
www.christinahyke.com
To learn more about the distance loving mini, Kricket
You can find her on facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/theminiadventuresofkricket/
Brianna Sullivan
Mentioned FOSH (Friends of Sound Horses, Inc) Check FOSH out here:
http://www.fosh.info
Find Adriana Sardoni by following her on instagram:
@endurancehorseriding
Victoria Clark - Marvel Endurance Team
https://www.facebook.com/marvel.endurance.team/
https://marvelendurance.wordpress.com
https://www.faraway.asn.au/easter-endurance-carnival/
http://stirlingscrossingendurance.asn.au
Darice Whyte
Writes for Arabian Horse World in a column named Twisted Tales.
https://arabianhorseworld.com/category/magazine/twisted-tales/
Keisha Wood
https://keishaswalk.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-wood-girls-weekend-of-awesomeness.html
Ruth Casserly
Ride Manager of Iron Oak
Midwest Distance Driving Association
Ride Site of Iron Oak Horse Camp Ukarydee
Follow Celine Elouise & her beautiful image of her buckskin mustang on instagram:
@wildwestgold
Trust me on this one, y’all, Celine has some AMAZING images of her horse, you will get total horse eye candy over on her instagram account!
Tara Leroy
President of the Southern Kettle Moraine Horse Trails Association
Vice President of Wisconsin State Horse Council District 4
http://www.skmhta.com
Green Bean Endurance Team
http://www.greenbeanendurance.org/p/about.html
Midwest Horse Fair
https://midwesthorsefair.com
Cowboy Church
https://www.crystallyons.com
If you haven’t been to cowboy church, maybe you haven’t been to church yet!
Check out this amazing woman with a vision & heart for the horse world.
April 3rd, 2018
Hello & welcome to Endurance Horse Podcast!
I’m so glad you could join us. How was your holiday weekend? Ours was pretty laid
back, though I have to say, for some reason my husband, Jim, really spoiled me starting on
Thursday. He showed up with a beautiful bouquet of flowers,
made sure I had time to ride that night and then on Friday morning he cooked me breakfast & sent me off with one of my favorite horses & a good friend for a nice, long, trail ride. And to top it off by the time I got back from my ride there was a homemade pot of artichoke soup simmering on the stove.
In case you are wondering, I had a great trail ride with my little sorrel mare, Grace. Grace had not been on the trails in sometime, though she was amazing and happy to be out there. Grace is happy to leave the other horses and find her own journey, even if it was just going off to search for Tara’s lost glove, which, by the way, I don’t think has been found yet.
There are several man made obstacles on one of the loops we ride on and Grace rushed over to each obstacle as if to prove she truly should be the horse that I take out on EVERY ride. She was eager to please and is such a snuggle horse, and I love her so much! I would love to hear about how your extended weekend was, did you find time for horses, kick back and relax or did you travel?
In Episode 2 we are going to hear from some new riders, get some updates, ride reports, a humorous Tevis memory from our Canadian friend. We will also be introduced to two very adorable, very young riders that I hope will continue to send in files throughout the season! Without, further ado, I to bring to you, Episode 2 of the Endurance Horse Podcast.
Thank you all for listening, and thank you especially to those who emailed in your stories. Alice and Bailey- we are looking forward to listening to your stories this year girls, so keep sending in your files!
To hear your story on Endurance Horse Pocast, email your audio stories to endurancehorsepodcast@gmail.com Ideally the files should be from 2 to 7 minutes in length.
Goodbye for now, this is your host, Christina Hyke wife, mom, friend, equine photographer and life long horsewoman, signing off and saying ride far, ride well, ride often.
Christina Hyke Photography, LLC
www.christinahyke.com
To contact Barry Cole email him at:
bluemoonfarm90@yahoo.com
The Ozark Trails 75/100 Endurance Ride
http://ozarktrailsendurance.com/ride.html
Victoria Clark - Marvel Endurance Team
https://www.facebook.com/marvel.endurance.team/
https://marvelendurance.wordpress.com
https://www.faraway.asn.au/easter-endurance-carnival/
http://stirlingscrossingendurance.asn.au
Darice Whyte
Writes for Arabian Horse World in a column named Twisted Tales.
https://arabianhorseworld.com/category/magazine/twisted-tales/
Keisha Wood
https://keishaswalk.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-wood-girls-weekend-of-awesomeness.html
Ella Bunting Endurance
https://www.facebook.com/EllaAndEbaEndurance/
Bec Radney
www.westcoastarabians.com
Green Bean Endurance Team
http://www.greenbeanendurance.org/p/about.html
