Book cover of Tevis Cup Magic: Taking on the World’s Toughest 100 Mile Endurance Ride

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Winner of Best Book at the 2016 American Horse Publications Equine Media Awards

Every endurance ride has its challenges and difficulties, but the Tevis Cup has 100 miles of it. It's extreme, challenging, relentless, frantic, exhilarating, heart-breaking, exhausting, exasperating, beautiful, treacherous, insane, exciting.

Merri Melde's dramatic story of her unplanned…

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Every horse Endurance ride has its challenges and difficulties, but the Tevis Cup has 100 miles of it. It's extreme, challenging, relentless, frantic, exhilarating, heart-breaking, exhausting, exasperating, beautiful, treacherous, insane, exciting. I know first-hand, because I experienced it!

Even though most Endurance riders consider the 100-mile Tevis Cup the Holy Grail of Endurance rides, it was never on my radar, as I never owned my own Endurance horse.

It was pure luck that a friend offered me her spare horse to ride at the last minute, a gallant gray gelding who knew the trail. And so I sat astride Quinn…

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