- Fort Minor
Eventing is hard work.
A rider will spend weeks if not months of their life practicing the
basics and honing their skills. Even
more time is spent maintaining the horse’s welfare through grooming, feeding,
mucking etc. There is time spent on
tack. Time spent on the facility and
other equipment. Eventers are invested
in their passion.
Yet no matter how much time and money is sunk into the pursuit,
lady luck has her say. There are too
many variables for anything to ever be a given.
A horse can go lame, slip in the stabling, or just have a bad day. You can forget a movement, skip a fence, even
stay up to late cleaning tack.
The wind might blow.
The skies may open up and pour or even snow, but Eventers ride on. The post office has nothing on what Eventers
will endure. What keeps us going?
It isn’t something that can be put into words. The partnership, the bond, the
accomplishment, the progress, the adrenalin, the comradery, the peace, the fun,
the heartbreak, the hope, the knowledge that you can always do it a little bit
better but knowing what you did today is enough. There are a hundred reasons we play this game.
We’re headed to our final event of the season this
weekend. It’s going to be cold. It’s been hard to ride in the wet, chili,
dark rain of the past couple of weeks. Regardless,
the trailer is packed, the tack is cleaned (well it will be before Saturday
morning), and Nutmeg and I are eagerly awaiting our Friday departure. We’d love to see you there. They always need volunteers!
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