North American Young Riders Endurance Ride (NAYRER)

What We're All About

The North American Junior - Young Riders Endurance Ride is happening this year for the first time ever. The Endurance Ride is a demonstration event held in conjunction with the North American Junior/Young Riders Championship. A mulit-disciplined event that will have young equestrians competing in Show Jumping, Eventing, Dressage and Reining.

Youth from all over North America will be coming to Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky to compete in a 75 mile endurance ride. In addition, we have several commitments from riders overseas who are keenly interested in riding in this event as well.

As an FEI CEI** event this ride will expose endurance youth to International competition. We are seeking American Endurance Ride Conference (AERC) sanctioning in additionwe are also currently seeking sanctioning from the Arabian Horse Association as well.

The Trail

The trails for this ride will be similar to the trails used at the 2008 AERC and AHA National Championship. We're very excited about the opportunity to use these beautiful and challenging trails.

Plenty of Opportunity

This ride will offer plenty of opportunities for our youth to not only watch the other disciplines compete, but other opportunities to socialize with these youth. Various parties and dinners are planned throughout the week.

Requirements for Riders

Our ultimate goal is to one day in the very near future to offer an official Junior/Young Riders National Championship. This event will obviously have high requirements for mileage for both horse and rider. The event this year is not a Championship event, however, we are going to require a minimal number of miles for both horse and rider so that we can be assured that we have experienced riders and horses competing at this event. Please click on the links below to see what the requirements are for both rider and horse.