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)
“Perhaps of all our untamed quadrupeds, the fox has obtained the widest and most familiar reputation.... His recent tracks still give variety to a winter’s walk. I tread in the steps of the fox that has gone before me by some hours, or which perhaps I have started, with such a tip-toe of expectation as if I were on the trail of the Spirit itself which resides in the wood, and expected soon to catch it in its lair.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“One key, one solution to the mysteries of the human condition, one solution to the old knots of fate, freedom, and foreknowledge, exists, the propounding, namely, of the double consciousness. A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and public nature, as the equestrians in the circus throw themselves nimbly from horse to horse, or plant one foot on the back of one, and the other foot on the back of the other.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Very few of our race can be said to be yet finished men. We still carry sticking to us some remains of the preceding inferior quadruped organization. We call these millions men; but they are not yet men. Half-engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.
They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of
drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the
Lord,”
—Bible: Hebrew Judges (l. V, 10–11)