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Beverly Gray
Park City, UT |
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Beverly Gray
Discipline: Endurance
Horses: Paladin, Extrah, Appollo, Omner (deceased, named top 10 endurance horse of the millennium, Breyer horse, Hall of Fame and 10,000
race miles)
Kerrits Pick: Coach’s Coat
Website: www.bevgrayusa.com
Even as a little girl, Beverly had a fascination for horses. She grew up admiring her older sister who had a horse, riding lessons and showing. Beverly was her "groom" and would brush, walk, wash anything to be near her sisters' horse.
Beverly moved to Utah to attend college and purchased a beautiful Arabian filly named Uinta. They would learn from each other. Uinta was eventually Beverly's champion mount for Ride and Tie races. This event involves 2 runners and one horse in an exchange riding over a designated course. The team was unbeatable for ten years of competition and won the Levi National Championship women's division in 1984. In order to keep her Ride and Tie horse in shape, Beverly would enter a few Endurance rides a year…then a few more and finally only endurance riding.
Her endurance race career spans 2 decades. She has 16,900 race miles, 250 races/240 completions and 83 wins. Her list of accomplishments is extensive including her selection with Regalidon (aka Paladin) to the United States Equestrian Endurance Team. Bev and Pal are an awesome team and were the 1st USA rider at the 2002 World Equestrian Games in Jerez, Spain. They also competed in the United Arab Emirates and had an impressive finish at the 2004 Dubai Gold Cup (14th of 110 riders with only 16 completing) and they won Team Silver. In impressive back to back races they took 1st and Best Condition at the Big Horn 100 and 3 weeks later a 9th at the Tevis.
Recently, they have raced in Malaysia by invitation of the King of Malaysia. |
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