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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/atom10full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" gd:etag="W/&quot;DEQCR34-cCp7ImA9WhZQFE8.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662006357635957512</id><updated>2011-04-21T15:52:46.058-07:00</updated><category term="Introduction for blog" /><category term="Gel Back Protector Pads" /><title>Endurance, TREC and Holidays on Horseback</title><subtitle type="html">The Performance Equestrian Blog covering all aspects of Endurance riding, BHS TREC and holidays on horseback including products, equipment and clothing used, where to go and anything new and newsworthy</subtitle><link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://endurancetrecandridingholidays.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://endurancetrecandridingholidays.blogspot.com/" /><author><name>Steve Beresford</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07268325259356621996</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><generator version="7.00" uri="http://www.blogger.com">Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/EnduranceTrecAndHolidaysOnHorseback" /><feedburner:info uri="endurancetrecandholidaysonhorseback" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><feedburner:emailServiceId>EnduranceTrecAndHolidaysOnHorseback</feedburner:emailServiceId><feedburner:feedburnerHostname>http://feedburner.google.com</feedburner:feedburnerHostname><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DkcDRHs9cSp7ImA9WxZRFEs.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662006357635957512.post-3436767521998591195</id><published>2008-02-08T01:03:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-08T01:47:55.569-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2008-02-08T01:47:55.569-08:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Gel Back Protector Pads" /><title>New Products - Gel Back Protector Pads</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ID5acencqwk/R6wk-vA3FcI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/tRhbaHq05uQ/s1600-h/Back+gel+shock+absorbers.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5164543532877682114" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ID5acencqwk/R6wk-vA3FcI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/tRhbaHq05uQ/s320/Back+gel+shock+absorbers.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Performance Equestrian purchases shock absorbing back protector business from AMS of France&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;Since October last year we have been working on the purchase of the shock absorbing back protector business from French manufacturer AMS, and finally we have it all over here and in production.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;As a past distributor of the AMS products we know how good they are at providing excellent back protection for all equine sports such as Dressage, Jumping, Trec and Endurance.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;The pads have a neoprene outer with a flexible, non toxic, polyurethane gel inner. Available in two types either weighted or non weighted.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;The non weighted types come in a variety of shapes to match saddle types and are cut to fit Jumping, Dressage and Endurance style saddles. There is even a range of lightweight pads for Racing and Point to Point.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;The weighted pads are designed to provide extra weight to riders who compete in minimum weight competitions such as Racing, Point to Point and Endurance.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;They have the same back shock absorbing back protection properties as the non weighted ones and come in weights from 2 to 15Kg.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;As well as back protection products we also have a range of weighted girth sleeves and gel filled stirrup pads to ease those aching feet on long rides.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;For further information check out the following links to our website.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;Until next time&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;Steve&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For non weighted pads check out&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.performance-equestrian.com/html/cat020900x.html"&gt;www.performance-equestrian.com/html/cat020900x.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;For weighted pads check out &lt;a href="http://www.performance-equestrian.com/html/cat021100x.html"&gt;www.performance-equestrian.com/html/cat021100x.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;For our gel filled stirrup pads go to &lt;a href="http://www.performance-equestrian.com/cat/cat020500x-item_0.html"&gt;www.performance-equestrian.com/cat/cat020500x-item_0.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1662006357635957512-3436767521998591195?l=endurancetrecandridingholidays.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EnduranceTrecAndHolidaysOnHorseback/~4/-aW66BS-sw0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://endurancetrecandridingholidays.blogspot.com/feeds/3436767521998591195/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1662006357635957512&amp;postID=3436767521998591195" title="11 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1662006357635957512/posts/default/3436767521998591195?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1662006357635957512/posts/default/3436767521998591195?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EnduranceTrecAndHolidaysOnHorseback/~3/-aW66BS-sw0/new-products-gel-back-protector-pads.html" title="New Products - Gel Back Protector Pads" /><author><name>Steve Beresford</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07268325259356621996</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ID5acencqwk/R6wk-vA3FcI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/tRhbaHq05uQ/s72-c/Back+gel+shock+absorbers.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>11</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://endurancetrecandridingholidays.blogspot.com/2008/02/new-products-gel-back-protector-pads.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;AkYFRX8zfip7ImA9WB5aF0s.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662006357635957512.post-6208630749554791840</id><published>2007-09-14T03:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-14T04:08:34.186-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2007-09-14T04:08:34.186-07:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Introduction for blog" /><title>In the beginning</title><content type="html">&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;I am often asked questions about the types of products we sell whether this style of equine heart rate monitor is better than that, the advantages of using webbing bridles over Zilco synthetic or Biothane bridles etc.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;So I thought lets start a blog where we can post some answers to these common questions and include useful articles and tips on how to start off in Endurance horse riding and TREC.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;We will also look at the different types of riding holidays available and what type of equipment is needed. We would also welcome any suggestions for products that riders are having difficulty in getting.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;To view whats currently available have a look at &lt;a href="http://www.performance-equestrian.com/"&gt;www.performance-equestrian.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;Until the next time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;Steve&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1662006357635957512-6208630749554791840?l=endurancetrecandridingholidays.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EnduranceTrecAndHolidaysOnHorseback/~4/VjzdCrTpCh4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://endurancetrecandridingholidays.blogspot.com/feeds/6208630749554791840/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1662006357635957512&amp;postID=6208630749554791840" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1662006357635957512/posts/default/6208630749554791840?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1662006357635957512/posts/default/6208630749554791840?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EnduranceTrecAndHolidaysOnHorseback/~3/VjzdCrTpCh4/in-beginning.html" title="In the beginning" /><author><name>Steve Beresford</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07268325259356621996</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://endurancetrecandridingholidays.blogspot.com/2007/09/in-beginning.html</feedburner:origLink></entry></feed>

