The Great Santa Fe Trail Horse Race Endurance Ride, sometimes referred to as the Santa Fe Ride, is an annual 515-mile equine endurance ride conducted over a fourteen day period in close proximity to the historic Santa Fe Trail. The 2007 Ride was won by Scott Griffin of Seattle, Washington, with a combined time of 61 hours 45 minutes over fourteen days. The 2007 Pioneer Ride was won by Karen Fredrickson of Kneeland, California. She completed the 515 miles on a named Murphy in a little over 86 hours.
Famous quotes containing the words santa, trail, horse, race, endurance and/or ride:
“On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe.”
—Johnny Mercer (1909–1976)
“The ghosts of the villages trail in the sky
Making a new twilight”
—William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)
“It is possible that the telephone has been responsible for more business inefficiency than any other agency except laudanum.... In the old days when you wanted to get in touch with a man you wrote a note, sprinkled it with sand, and gave it to a man on horseback. It probably was delivered within half an hour, depending on how big a lunch the horse had had. But in these busy days of rush-rush-rush, it is sometimes a week before you can catch your man on the telephone.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little, odious vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
“The men who think of superannuation at sixty-one are those whose lives have been idle, not they who have really buckled themselves to work. It is my opinion that nothing seasons the mind for endurance like hard work. Port wine should perhaps be added.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)
“Of coursers also spake they: Henry rid
Well, like most Englishmen, and loved the races;
And Juan, like a true-born Andalusian,
Could back a horse, as despots ride a Russian.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)