Twenty-eight riders participate in the Vaumicel endurance raid

The Vaumicel organized an official endurance event on a Sunday with the French Equestrian Federation and the National Committee of Endurance Equestrian Raids. Twenty-eight riders, registered individually or by club, followed an introductory course of thirty-five kilometers or a qualifying event of sixty kilometers.

The qualification opened access to the pre-national level of ninety kilometers, then to the national level of one hundred and twenty kilometers. Two participants had already reached this last level: Mr. Hauvel, seventy-one years old, from Lisieux, and Mr. Boscher, from Grimbosq.

The circuit went to Longueville to the west and Sainte-Honorine to the east, in natural terrain, at a speed of between twelve and fifteen kilometers per hour to spare the horses. The classification combined time within the limits imposed and veterinary checks of heart and respiratory rhythms and the condition of the mucous membranes, in order to assess recovery. The raid thus measured both the resistance of the horse and the good conduct of the rider.

A brief neighbor announced the general meeting of the Vierville–Saint-Laurent hunting society on Saturday 17 at 8:30 p.m. at Vierville town hall, with a sale of tickets.

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