Where it all began: The Tevis Cup

Tevis 2010

Garrett Ford and The Fury at the Haeggen Cup Showing day after Tevis. The couple ended up winning the prestigious Haeggen Cup.



The author arriving at the finish line in 12th place.


Christoph on Double Zell.

Both horses are EQUILITE users.


Day before the start of Tevis

Tevis is the oldest endurance ride in the world. It has been in existence now for 56 years. Since the first Tevis ride, the sport of endurance riding has spread all over the world and is now the fastest growing equestrian sport. At the Global Endurance Training Center in Moab, Utah, we are specializing in training horses and riders for this tough sport. We presently have 40 horses in training, many will get leased out for Tevis and other big endurance rides throughout the years.

This year, the Global Endurance Center Team arrived with 6 horses at Tevis, we had riders from Texas and Arizona and Europe entering. Last year, GETC finished 5 out of 6 entered horses. Tevis typically only sees completion rates of around 50%.

The ride starts before sunrise at dawn. Almost 200 horses are lined up at the start line, most waiting patiently before the official start at 5.15 am.

The whole course sees a total altitude change of 36000 ft, 14.000 uphill, 22.000 downhill. The start is at about 7000 ft, the finish line in Auburn at 1000. Temps in the lower canyons are often in the 100 degrees plus range. Footing is often rough, lots of rocks, technical difficulties like Cougar Rock, narrow trails with exposure and little room for error.

Arguably the most intense and toughest endurance ride in the world, riders need reliable crew to finish. These crews are ready at the three crew accessible vet checks with food for horses and riders, ice to cool their legs, Sore No More liniments for muscles and legs and moral support and stats.

At Global Endurance Training Center, we are entering a combined 200 plus endurance races each year with our horses and riders from all over the world. Our horses are ridden hard in training and competition, one of GETC staff member has more individual endurance wins than any other rider in the world. That's a record. But without taking meticulous care of the foundation of our horses, namely the hooves and legs, these success stories would not get written. that's why we are taking meticulous care in hoof and leg care. Products like Equiflex, Easycare hoof boots and Sore No More are being widely used at our training center. We found these products the best on the market for our horses. Our success is based not only on knowhow and experience, but even more so on the products we use to help our horses to succeed.

EQUILITE has been a loyal companion on Tevis for the last years. We would not want to start big races like Tevis without their products in our trailer.

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