Dawn bleached shadows off the Sierra's granite bones as horses in the Tevis Cup Ride trotted from the forest and into Squaw Valley. Once on an open cat road, they cantered, tails raised, manes flying, ...

Two horses were injured and one died during the Tevis Cup 100-mile endurance ride from Lake Tahoe to Auburn over the weekend, Cal Fire said. Dramatic video showed one of the injured animals being ...

Claire Taylor and her horse, a 16-year old Arabian named HH Saba Shams (Sunny in Arabic), placed 27th in this year's Tevis Cup endurance ride. (Photo courtesy Martha Taylor) Claire Taylor, a senior at ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. AUBURN, Calif. (KTXL) — Following the death ...

The rugged and dusty mountain endurance race now known as the Tevis Cup Ride was born as an effort to resuscitate an Old West legend: the Pony Express. That's why a prized silver belt buckle Tevis ...

The oldest modern-day endurance ride in the U.S., the Western States Trail Ride -- commonly called the Tevis Cup Ride -- is a 100-mile test of rider and horse. You might expect to find only the ...

A Magalia horseback rider expected the cliff-side trails and history-book views of the Western States Trail to bring an end to a years-long endurance journey. However, after 55 miles on July 20, she ...

After nearly 100 miles and 14 hours across some of the most rugged terrain in the West, Sanoma Blakeley managed to win the world’s most challenging equestrian endurance ride by about the length of a ...

OAKLAND — From the break of dawn through the daytime’s broiling heat and into the nighttime moonlight, the Western States Trail Ride, better known as the Tevis Cup, widens and narrows over a historic ...

Like a marathon, most endurance horseback riders who enter the prestigious 100-mile Tevis Cup in Northern California just hope to finish. In fact, each year, close to 50 percent of the riders and ...