![]() Victory celebrations for some countries stopped short when the first group of finishers didn’t meet the veterinary inspection criteria. Last week, Ajayeb, the 15-year-old chestnut mare ridden by Sheikh Rashid Dalmook Al Maktoum (UAE), was euthanized on the trail, after she tripped and fell on the fourth loop of the track, suffering an irreparable injury to her right front leg. reported that he mare allegedly slipped on a plastic water bottle discarded by riders who came before. ![]() To be truthful, the only time we usually hear about endurance at the international level is when something goes wrong, and it usually has to go very wrong to attract the media’s attention at all. This fall, that colorful and often controversial history will be spotlighted in a revealing new book that cannot–and should not–be ignored. ![]() Thanks to FEI TV, we could all watch the WECH horses in action, acting out the latest chapter in endurance history, for better or worse. For the past 125 years, organized equine endurance spectacles have pitted horses against fate. ![]() When last week’s F EI World Endurance Championships (“WECH”)in Slovakia made the news for all the wrong reasons, echoes of endurance races of the past rumbled to the surface. The winner of the 2016 FEI World Endurance Championships, Spain’s Jaume Punti Dachs and Twyst Maison Blanche, weren’t the first across the finish line.
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