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 THE STORY OF SNOWY CREEK'S BAY KNIGHT & JASON BLAKENEY |
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This summer we had our greatest adventure so far. We rode 400 miles across the Sonora desert in July and August. Including the Grand Canyon from rim to rim in under 11 hours!
Me, Steph, Heather and a friend of ours JC were all working at a ranch down in Tucson, AZ. Me, Heather and JC decided when the ranch closed in June we would head out for a ride. We left the US/Mexico border on July 2nd and headed north along the Arizona Trail which winds it's way up to Utah. We made it more than half way to Utah when we had to decide what we would do. We had run out of money, and time. We had just enough of both for another week of riding. With a little less than 300 miles to Utah we knew we couldn't do it in a week. The horses needed a rest and we needed a break from the furnace like desert before doing anything else. We decided we could not leave Arizona without riding the Grand Canyon so we trailered the horses to Flagstaff. Rested five days up in the mountains. Then went to the Grand Canyon and rode from rim to rim in one day. The horses did excellent. At the bottom of the canyon you have to travel through a tunnel that bends to the left through a rock wall, at the end of the tunnel it opens onto a 400 foot suspension bridge 100 feet above the Colorado River. Bay Knight led the way without any hesitation what so ever! We don't ride like the average trail rider. We have always covered some tough country from WV to Maine to the West, and Bay Knight has never let me down. You could ride him through Manhattan or the mountains. He has followed behind me and literaly climbed up rocks that I was using both hands and feet to get up. We have swam rivers, worked sheep and cows, slept together, bled together and traveled many miles together. I will never find a horse like this again! I've guided trail rides with him, and ridden with other folks and their mares and several times they didn't even realize he was a stud. The mares acted up more than him. He is a gentlmen (most of the time). So I just wanted to say thank you for providing the LAMBERT blood that runs through my horse. JASON BLAKENEY WY |
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