2010 Swedish Team Championship in Endurance

The list of entrants is now out on the net. Unless there will be some delayd entrances or changes, the Team Championship looks very interesting. Seven Teams will be out there fighting over 100 km.


King Peak will have his debute with free speed and this will be his first try over 100 km.


In the weather forecast one can read that there will be a risk for a temperature around 30 degrees Celsius. That can cause drying up problems during a day like that. No need for speculations more than a week before the event! Just wait and see. Anyway, it will be an interesting race, that´s for sure.

The next step...

I am reading a very educational book at the moment. I will tell more about it shortly.
At the moment I wait for the definit list of centenders for the Uppsala ride next Saturday. If I am correctly informed and nothing has changed the plans, King Peak will compete in his first 100 km race and probably participate in the DDRF Team. It is the Swedish Team Championship.

Second son out on Endurance racing!

June 12 Bayron, 6 year old, completed his first Clear Round.


Parnassos has just 3 sons and a daughter despite his world class pedigree. You can look into the pedigree of whichever performing horse you choose among the best ones in the world and you will not find a horse with such a genuine pedigree as his. This goes for both Racing horses and Endurance horses.

..and the day after the Sydnärke ride...

Now King Peak has qualified for higher tasks. He can now compete in International 80 km and next step is 120 km. Quick work for a 6 year old!
I´m rather confused about the criterion of Best Condition. King Peak had a final pulse rate of 52 beats and the chosen one had 60. Is there other criteria than what can be understood by the figures and that the horse is fit and alert?

Anyway, he has now done 3 Clear Rounds as 5 y.o. and this year as a 6 y.o. 3 competitions. All approved and not used at all. He has inherited the fysical advantages from his ancestors, that´s for sure!

Next week-end Bayron will do his first Clear Round too.

Sydnärkeritten June 5, 2010

I was thrilled and very surprised to discover that Annelie Eriksson will start 2 horses on the 80 km Sydnärkeritten. Things had been changed and she have two younger horses to qualify before they are allowed to go "free" speed. She will ride the mare Expenza herself and the 15 year old Swedish Young Rider Champion Fannie Eriksson will ride King Peak. They have to keep their speed below 16 km/H so it will be like a walk in the Park.......