I am Ann, 56 years old, North Okangan, BC, dabbled in endurance in both Alberta and BC, even won a 25! but have not ridden one for about 5 years. I plan to change that next year.
I rode a tough, Rocky-Mountain-rasied half Arab for a while until she developed low level lung problems in middle age, after a horrible flu made the rounds of the corrals and affected 20+ horses!! She continued her career as a happy trail horse with another owner.
I then rode a Polish Arab, Riff, who was going to go for meat as his poor young owner just couldn't get along with/handle him. He proved to be a difficult horse who could be counted on to do well whenever the going got tough: chasing cows, endurance, stiff camping trips, even as one of the first five in Canada to go throuh the tough training to be a search and rescue accredited horse. He is subsiding into a gentle old age now (oh, lordy ,as am I!)
I will have a 5 year old mule (not one I have raised) and a nine year old Spotted Saddle Horse to try. Neither will be very competitive, I don't think, but I love endurance for the goals it sets me in riding for pleasure, the camaraderie among competitiors, the immense amount I used to learn on the American site for endurance riders- until they changed it to a pay site a number of years ago.
I plan to get an endurance-bred Arab brood mare in the next couple of years and produce endurance mules with my very leggy young spotted mammoth jack. I have other mares, destined to produce trail/pleasure mules and sport mules, but mules are good at endurance and I would like to raise some.
Later, if any one konws of a good mare who should become a brood mare, can be sound to breed and not to ride, let me know, but not this winter.