The Long Riders' Guild

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

1988

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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