Tevis Riders Group #1

Potato Richardson — Sat, 22 Jul 2017 06:59:22 +0000

The Tevis Buckle, commissioned by Will Tevis, was designed by Tiffany’s of New York. The first of these buckles were awarded, in 1959, in 1956-58 buckles were awarded but not the ones we have today. According to research, 61.8% of horses owners are women. Since 1959 to 2016, 74.6% of the total Tevis buckle earners are also women. Thank your Dad or husband for their devotion to a peaceful living.

Okay, let’s talk about Group #1, the largest group of Tevis people.

These riders are “the number 1’s,” whom I’ve divided into the subgroups of 1a, 1b, 1c, and 1f:

1a – These people have heard or read of the characteristics of this challenge. They might not have a horse, but they have a longstanding admiration and/or want for one. They are also particularly supportive of endurance and do want a Tevis buckle. Now, they might have gone on endurance rides as a crew or related to a Tevis rider with a higher rating, but they haven’t taken the steps to enter the Tevis. Either that, or they do want to enter the Tevis, but they don’t quite know if they could handle the 100-mile ride.

1b – These people have looked further into the Tevis via articles, videos, and maybe even discussions. They have given a lot of thought to riding in the Tevis and have been on trail rides with other Tevis riders. Those riders who conditioned for Tevis and perhaps earned a Tevis buckle. They support this subgroup of people into riding the Tevis, sometimes with each other. 1b’s may start to condition themselves for the ride and training their horses for endurance.

1c – These people show a lot of interest in the Tevis. They have stated, publically, that they do want to ride the Tevis. Perhaps in the next one or when their horse is older. They’re doing all of their homework on the Tevis ride and its terms. They have made schedules for training or conditioning for the ride. Essentially, they’ve trained for the ride and decided to enter whenever they feel they and/or their horse can handle the journey.

1f – Finally we have group 1f group d&e donâ€t exist. Group 1f is actually a rider who has talked for a long time of riding Tevis maybe even years. This rider has the horse and has trained or at least ridden long enough rides to be convinced that their horse and perhaps they could finish the challenge. In fact this rider publicly talks about entering the ride. Further encouraged by all this riders friends that success is certain the determination grows. Then here is the very factor that puts this rider into the 1f category. This rider actually stops short of entering. Remember if you never start you canâ€t fail like in â€œFâ€ grade. I know more than one person who had everything set and success was pretty certain but the fear of failure set-in and the rider would not enter. From then on the mention of riding Tevis is not mentioned

So there we have my personal categorization of Group #1!
Next blog will be about Group #2.
Stand by.

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So you want to ride Tevis? There are three types of Tevis people which one are you?

Potato Richardson — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 17:34:35 +0000

Rider Type 1

A number one rider is a person who has a Tevis Buckle on their wish list. By all means this is the biggest list of Tevis riders there is. I know of several riders who want a buckle but have yet to get serious enough to really do what it takes to accomplish that goal. Matter of fact one year I offered a No 1 a proven and conditioned horse to achieve that goal and the terms were very reasonable. The cost was well within that rider’s budget and there was absolutely no conceivable reason to turn down the offer. Interesting ever since that offer was made that rider no longer talks of s buckle someday. So I have come to the conclusion that lots of No 1’s are not really serious just wishers.

Rider Type 2

Now No 2’s are a different group. A No 2 is a rider who has entered but not crossed the finish line. Now let’s review the types of 2’s. Perhaps starting at the chronological possibilities. This rider trained the mount intended for the ride and had a serious training schedule. However some problem arose such as rider had physical problems, broken arm or something like that. Or perhaps the problem was the mount selected came up lame etc. Whatever the cause this rider withdrew the entry if it was ever even made. Now moving up the scale of seriousness and each of these situations are more and more mentally depressing. The next one is appearing at vet-in for the ride and not having a mount that vets in. Now this rider really suffers a terrible situation and it is surprising how often this happens and it is also surprising how often this rider somehow secures a last minute mount and starts the ride. The next level of moving up the scale of no 2’s is getting pulled during the ride. The level of sadness with this rider is in direct proportion to the distance ridden before being pulled. Of course the reason for being pulled is most often the horse fails at a vet check because of many different reasons. The worst reason for being pulled in my opinion is pulled because of time cut-off in other words overtime. The horse was able to continue the rider just didn’t ride fast enough.

Rider Type 3

Now rider No 3 is a rider who has earned a buckle and is now pursuing another one. Once you get that Tevis bug at any level it just doesn’t go away very easily.

So my next entry in this blog will include some serious research into the number of riders who fit into each category and I may even break each category down into sub groups like 1, 1a, 1b etc 2, 2a, 2b etc. This will take some detailed thought. Obviously the variations of sub groups would be the largest in group No 2.

Stay tuned.
Potato

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