established. Ping, who has been competing for
thirteen years, has learned that properly shoeing his horse is important. Ping took a spill with his horse because he didn’t have shoes that were properly prepared for the slick track. Now Ping welds borium to the heels
and toes of his horse’s shoes in order to improve traction on the skijoring course. “Skijoring is a kick to do,” said Ping, who rides an Appendix Quarter Horse.
Sandpoint, Idaho, will be hosting a
NASJA-sanctioned skijoring competition for the third consecutive year with help from a strong volunteer base, said Matt Smart, who is Sandpoint’s race director, as well as a skijoring competitor. “I saw it and I just had to do it,” said
Smart, who has been skijoring for four years.
The event in Sandpoint will be held
February 16-17, 2013, at the fairgrounds. With just four to six inches of snow needed for a good skijoring course, Smart noted that if there were a lack of snow at competition time, event organizers would haul it in and cover the track so the show could go on. “Some of these people are pulling bar-
rel racing times,” said Smart. For the first time in more than ten
years, Jackson, Wyoming will be hold- ing a skijoring competition put on by the Shriner’s Club on February 23-24, 2013, with proceeds going to benefit the Shriner’s Hospital for children in Salt Lake City, Utah. The event will take place on a straight track, about one-quarter mile in length, with six-foot jumps at an airstrip at Melody Ranch, just south of Jackson, Wyoming. Jackson’s event is NASJA sanctioned, and anticipated to bring in contestants throughout the Western states.
Additional 2013 sanctioned races will be held at the following locations: Bellevue, ID, on February 2-3, and Bozeman, MT, on February 15-17. Non-sanctioned races will take place: in Gallatin Gateway, MT— February 2-3; Minturn, CO—February 23-24; Wisdom, MT—February 23-24; Leadville, CO— March 2-3; and Red Lodge, MT—March 8-10. For more information on skijoring, call 406-261-7464, or visit
www.nasja.com.
continued... ReadeRs RemembeR... Growing Up With Horses
From a divorced family at age 5, I learned to ride English hunt while living in Illinois and Michigan with my mother and grandmother.
Beginning at age 8 or so, I learned Western packing in the Rockies, pee wee rodeo and parades with my dad and cousins on his side of the family in Colorado and California. High school rodeo, college drill team, jump team and rodeo team. After college, endurance riding and now just pleasure rid- ing in the National Forests along the West Coast. ~ R.G., Garibaldi, Oregon
- All my life horses brought me joy, even growing up in a
non-horse family. I bought my first horse at age 9 with money I earned from selling ice at my Dad’s gas station. When I was 15, we rented horses for the summer and would ride to town 5 miles or so and show off our beautiful mounts which could rear beauti- fully on cue. It made me feel great and built self-confidence! ~ A Reader in Montana
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