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Witezarif (1963 – 1998) was a champion American endurance horse in the sport of endurance riding. He was a registered Arabian gelding ridden by Donna Fitzgerald. He was the first horse inducted into the American Endurance Ride Conference (AERC) Hall of Fame.

Life and Career
Witezarif was a son of Witezar, a 1965 national champion halter Arabian, who was a son of Witez II. Witezarif was foaled and raised on the Hyannis Land and Cattle Ranch in the Sandhills of Western Nebraska. In 1968, Pat Fitzgerald found and acquired Witezarif in Nebraska and took him home to the Reno, Nevada area. Pat Fitzgerald and his wife Donna trained Witezarif on the trails and abandoned mining roads near their home as well as the trails near their riding stable at Lake Tahoe.

GRANDADDY, please suggest a sentence to introduce the start of his career (ex. When Witezarif turned 5 years old, Donna entered him in his first competition). Over his 16-year career, he completed 5,044 miles of endurance competition, including twenty-six 100-mile one-day rides. Witezarif lived to be 35 years old.

Achievements and Honors
He won the annual Tevis Cup 100-mile one-day endurance ride six times, and he won the annual Virginia City 100-mile one-day endurance ride five times.

He was the first horse inducted into the American Endurance Ride Conference (AERC) Hall of Fame.

Commentators frequently mention him as the greatest endurance horse of the modern era (beginning in 1955).

"The year 1970 would introduce a horse and rider team who embodied the very word ‘champions.’ Their accomplishments have never been rivaled and may never be."

- Marnye Langer, The Tevis Cup to Finish is to Win