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 trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender and very intelligent conscience a disqualification for success. Each requires of the practitioner a certain shutting of the eyes, a certain dapperness and compliance, an acceptance of customs, a sequestration from the sentiments of generosity and love, a compromise of private opinion and lofty integrity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“We would not always be soothing and taming nature, breaking the horse and the ox, but sometimes ride the horse wild and chase the buffalo.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“... we performers are monsters. We are a totally different, far-out race of people. I totally and completely admit, with no qualms at all, my egomania, my selfishness, coupled with a really magnificent voice.”
—Leontyne Price (b. 1927)
“By your endurance you will gain your souls.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 21:19.
“I saw him beat the surges under him,
And ride upon their backs. He trod the water,
Whose enmity he flung aside, and breasted
The surge most swoll’n that met him.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)