Equestrian Travel Timeline - the late 1980s
Year |
Name of Rider |
Details |
Miles
|
1986 |
Steve Nott | From Coolah, New South Wales, Australia and back to all four extreme points of the Australian mainland (east, north, west and south) on various horses including "Sleepy and Cassette, northern bred stock horses, Travis, an ex-trotter, and Reprieve, an undersized black-tailed creamy christened Reprieve." |
18,009 |
1986 |
Larry
Stephens
|
From Raymond, Washington to Wilmington, North Carolina, USA on “a
17-year-old Arab half Saddlebred mare named Misty Rose.” |
3,000 |
1986 |
Gigi
Kay & Mark Eisler
|
Chihuahua to Vera Cruz, Mexico. |
1,800 |
1986 |
Don
& Darwin Little
|
Morgan, Utah to Kansas City, Missouri, USA, on “four well conditioned
horses.” |
1,300 |
1986 |
Hjoerdis Rickert | Along the mediaeval pilgrim route through France to Santiago di Compostella, Spain on "Oualipo, a 7-year-old Chevel de Selle Français." |
1,200 |
1986 |
Robin
& Louella Hanbury-Tenison
|
Along the Great Wall of China on “Chinese geldings named Marco and
Polo.” |
1,000 |
1987 |
Raul
& Margarita Vasconsellos
|
Raymah, New Mexico, USA to Baraderos, Argentina on “saddle horses
named Cirilo and Sombras.” |
9,500 |
1987 |
Thierry
Posty
|
Montana to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, USA, on “Appaloosa geldings named
Snoopy & Pendant.” |
4,960 |
1987 |
Brigitte
Blanche & G. Delaborde
|
Along the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails of the Old West using
“mustangs.” |
4,000 |
1987 |
Pam
Kline
|
West Salem, Ohio to Del Mar, California, USA on “a buckskin Quarter
horse named Mick.” |
3,900 |
19 |
Louis
Bruhnke & Vladimir Fissenko
|
Tierra del Fuego, Argentina to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.
One horse, a Criollo gelding named Sufridor, completes the entire
trip. |
19,000 |
1988 |
Hans-Juergen
& Claudia Gottet
|
From Riyadh, Arabia to Mont Crosin, Switzerland, on “two Arabs, a mare
named Faizah and a stallion named Makklouk.” |
6,500 |
1988 |
Tim
Severin & Sarah Dorman
|
From Paris, France to Jerusalem, Palestine, on an “Ardennes Heavy
horse named Carty and an Irish trekking pony named Mystery.” |
3,500 |
1988 |
Alison
Payne
|
Hyde Park, London to Land’s End, Cornwall, via Scotland on a “Shire
gelding named George.” |
1,600 |
1988 |
Jeremy
James
|
Pamukkale, Turkey to Knighton, Wales, on “a Criollo gelding named
Gonzales.” |
1,500 |
1988 |
Belinda
Braithwaite
|
From Gibraltar to Paris, France, on “an Andalusian stallion.” |
1,200 |
1988 |
Jean-Pierre
Ligny
|
From Dieppe to Rodez, France. |
1,200 |
1988 |
Elizabeth
Barrett
|
Through southern England, via Celia Fiennes trail, on “Marbeck
Cameron, a deep chestnut Welsh Cob/Thoroughbred gelding.” |
1,200 |
1988 |
Roger Dunnam | From Black River Falls, Wisconsin, to Edmonton, Kentucky, "a quarter-horse named Gandy." |
1,100 |
1988 |
Robin
& Louella Hanbury-Tenison
|
From Dunrobin to Gisborne, New Zealand, on “station hacks named Wahine
and Manaaki.” |
650 |
1988 |
Phil
Jarrett
|
Along Australia’s National Trail. |
? |
1989 |
James
Greenwood
|
Six-year trip around the world, via South America, Japan, Ceylon, India,
Afghanistan, Persia, Turkey, and across Europe to England on a series of
local horses. |
13,000 |
1989 |
Marc
Kempf
|
Through Canada and the USA on “Chris and Speedy.” |
11,000 |
1989 |
Ivan
Denton
|
Mountainburg, Arkansas to Woodsford Station, California, USA on “a
six-year-old Arab gelding named ‘Lad’.” |
2,500 |
1989 |
CuChullaine O’Reilly |
From Peshawar, NWFP to Gilgit, Pakistan, and back, on a “Kathiawari/Percheron
gelding named Pasha.” |
1,100 |
1989 |
Doug
Preston & Walter Nelson
|
Charleston, Arizona to Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA on “Quarter horse
geldings named King and Pedernal.” |
1,000 |
1989 |
Christina
Dodwell
|
From Erzurum to Lake Van, Turkey, on “a Turkish Karacabey stallion
named Kayif.” |
700 |
1989 |
Tim
Severin
|
Erdenzu to Dzag, Mongolia, on “a Mongolian pony named Bayar.” |
500 |
1989 |
Robin
& Louella Hanbury-Tenison
|
Roncesvalles to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on “Andalusian geldings
named Duque and Guadalquivir.” |
500 |
1989 |
John
Garne & Andy Dell
|
From Estancia Laguna Salada to Perito Moreno, Patagonia. |
? |
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