Equestrian Timeline

The Long Riders' Guild

Equestrian Travel Timeline - 1980 to 1985

Year	Name of Rider	Details	Miles
1980	Tom Gaddie	Dallas, Texas to Fairbanks, Alaska, USA, and back, using seven horses.	11,217
1980	Christian, Sylvie & Baby Manon Lile	Marseille, France to Copenhagen, Denmark, and back.	1,000
1981	Betty Gray & Jane Powell	From Mexico to Canada	2,000
1982	Jean-Claude Cazade and Pascale Franconie	From Serignac-Peboudou, France, to Najran, Saudi Arabia, and back, on “Arab stallions named Meridian and Mzwina.”	13,092
1982	Jean-Francois Ballereau & Constance Rameaux	From Buenos Aires, Argentina to Cali, Columbia, with “four Criollos, Uno, Campeon, Altanero and Lamento.”	3,500
1982	Len & Lisa Brown	Posos Lake, New Mexico to Nevada, Missouri, USA, on “Missouri Fox Trotters named Charlie and Red Wing.”	3,000
1982	Stan Walchuk	Alberta, Canada, to Wrangell, Alaska, USA on “palomino” named “Lucky.	1,200
1982	David Douglas Duncan	Through the Highlands of Iran with Qashqais nomads.	?
1983	Marie Christine Thebaud & Anne LeCointre	Cairo, Egypt to Khartoum, Sudan, on “Arabs named Malesh and Sheik.”	1,860
1984	Otto Schwarz	Has ridden on five continents - Europe, Ireland, Iceland, North America, South America, Japan, New Zealand, and North Africa, on local horses.	30,000
1984	Emile Brager & Marie Roesle	From the Magellan Straits of Patagonia to Fairbanks, Alaska, USA	15,600
1984	Stephane Bigo & Michele Corson	Through six South American Countries: Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina on “two Manga Larga horses.”	7,000
1984	Rosie Swale	Antofagasta to Cape Horn, Chile on Chilean Aculeos named “Hornero and Jolgorio.”	1,500
1984	Kathie Bogue, Martha Olivo & Judy Housel	Fort Jackson, South Carolina, to Arlington, Texas, on "two quarter-horses named Cody and Hershey Bar, an Appaloosa, and a donated mare called Lady."	1,100
1984	Elroy Karius, Troy Karius and Lillian Schmidt	From Kelowna, British Columbia, through the Rocky Mountains to Melville, Saskatchewan on "Registered Arabians called Dinntai, Gango Shakem and Ishmael Khan."	1,000
1984	Robin & Louella Hanbury-Tenison	From Camargue, France, to Cornwall, England, on “French Camargues named Thibert and Tiki.”	600
1984	Peter Knudsen & Vickie Speir	Port Augusta to Birdsville, Australia, on “a Thoroughbred named Red and a Mustang named Ty.”	600
1984	Evelyne Coquet	From South Africa to Zimbabwe with her family.	?
1984	Gene Glasscock	From the Arctic Circle to the Equator, on "two quarter horses named Cactus and Freddie."	12,000
1985	Henry Perry	Across Australia in 157 days using six horses.	14,021
1985	Pam Kline	Through USA on “a buckskin Quarter horse named Mick.”	1,200