The Western States Trail Ride, popularly called The Tevis Cup is a 100 mile endurancehorserace. The event has been held annually since 1955. Endurance is the act of sustaining prolonged stressful effort. ... Binomial name Equus caballus The Horse (Equus caballus) is a large ungulate mammal, one of the seven modern species of the genus Equus. ... This article is about race as an intraspecies classification. ... 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday. ...
The race is held in the United States starting near the town of Truckee, CA and ending at the fairgrounds in Auburn, CA. Truckee is a town located in Nevada County, California. ... Auburn is the county seat of Placer County, California. ...
Each rider who completes the 100 mile course within the 24 hour limit and whose mount is judged "fit to continue" is awarded a silver Completion Award Buckle.
The race is sanctioned by AERC, the American Endurance Ride Conference.
Unless of course that horse is taking part in the TevisCup, the gruelling Californian race that pushes beast and rider to breaking point.
Of the 200-plus riders and horses that usually start the TevisCup -- the oldest and most famed competition in the growing sport of endurance riding -- fewer than half reach the finish line, most often because of dehydration, fatigue, muscle cramps, altitude sickness or lameness.
A woman wandering around with a large cup on the end of a pole deftly moves it underneath for a sample: a random drug test.
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