Equestrian Timeline

The Long Riders' Guild

Equestrian Travel Timeline - 1995 to 2001

Year	Name of Rider	Details	Miles
1995	Basha O'Reilly	From Alexikovo, Russia to Denston, England, on “a Volga Cossack stallion named Count Pompeii.”	2,500
1995	Alison Lea	Stari Oskol, Russia, to Gdansk, Poland, on “two Volga Cossack mares named Masha and Malishka.”	1,750
1995	Dario Masarotti and Antonietta Spizzo	From Premariacco, Italy, to the North Sea through Austria and German on "a bay half-Arab mare named Sebiba and an Anglo-Arab gelding called Terek."	1,000
1995	Lucy Rees & Rick Eastwood	Paulden to Shongolovi, Arizona, USA via Navajo land, on “Rosie & Duchess, two mares no one else wanted.”	500
1995	Richard Holmes	Through France.	?
1996	Hafis Bertschinger	From Gardner, Kansas to The Dalles, Oregon, USA, via the Oregon Trail, on “a gelding named George.”	2,500
1996	Claudio Crespo	São Paulo to Gurupi, northern Brazil, on "a Mangalarga/Quarter-horse cross named Trevo."	1,100
1996	Toby Green	Through Patagonia.	?
1996	Manfred Schulze	Around the world, from Geisenheim, Germany, through Europe, Russia, Mongolia, Korea and the USA with “two Hucul horses, a gelding named Puschkin and a mare named Panca.”	?
1997	Ray Piecuch	Epping, New Hampshire to San Francisco, California, USA on “a Standardbred gelding named Bo.”	3,000
1997	Dario Masarotti and Antonietta Spizzo	From Premariacco, Italy across Slovenia, Hungary, Ukraine and Belarus to Russia on "a bay half-Arab mare named Sebiba and an Anglo-Arab gelding called Terek."	1,875
1997	Paul Rask	From Viborg, Denmark, to Barcelona, Spain, on "an Icelandic pony named Printz."	1,560
1997	Claudio Crespo	Ibate - Sao Paulo, to Imperatriz - Maranhao (northern Brazil) on "two pure-bred Arabs named Ringo River and Canaan."	1,470
1998	Maurizio & Simona Cavaillari	Along Australia's Bicentennial National Trail.	4,350
1998	Guenter Wamser	From Patagonia to Peru on two Criollos.	3,500
1998	Claudio Crespo	From Sao Paulo to Montevideo - Uruguay and back to Porto Alegre - Brazil on "two pure-bred Arab horses named Fhj Atamai and Derifh al Faraz."	3,470
1998	Kerim Yalman & Bartle Bull	Through Russia to Lake Baikal.	2,500
1998	Tex Elcock	Springboro, Ohio to Antelope, Montana, USA with four horses.	2,000
1999	Sophia Cunningham, Lucy Kelaart, Alexandra Tolstoy and Victoria Westmacott	Merv, Turkmenistan to Xian, China on “a series of local horses.”	3,300
1999	Priscilla Telmon & Sylvain Tesson	Almaty, Kazakhstan to Moynak, Uzbekistan, on "three Kazakh horses named Bucéphale, Kamtcha, and Cavalier."	2,750
1999	Johanna Cooke	Chief Mountain, Canada to Antelope Wells, New Mexico "on a Quarter Horse named Billy".	2,600
1999	Claire Burges Watson	Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia to Samarkand, Uzbekistan, "on Kazakh horses".	2,500
1999	Greg Collins, Ken Downey & Danny Candella Jr.	Holly Beach, Louisiana, USA to Fort Francis, Ontario, Canada on a “Nevada mustang named Doc, a Quarter horse named Pilgrim and an Appaloosa named Cody.”	1,600
1999	Basha O'Reilly	From Anapra, Texas to Hole In The Wall, Wyoming, USA, on “a grey Arab gelding named Pancho.”	1,500
1999	Justine Oliver and Philip Riches	From Mendoza north to Quebrada de Humahauaca in Argentina on "three Mestizo horses called Super Pancho, Uspapalla and Señor Frog."	1,100
1999	Dario Masarotti and Antonietta Spizzo	From Camaiore, Tuscany, Italy, to Auvergne, France, on "a bay half-Arab mare named Sebiba and an Anglo-Arab gelding called Terek."	1,000
1999	Gabrielle Schenk	Across Tasmania on "Fonz, Minnie, Gambit and Candor".	?
2000	François Varigas	Ozona, Texas, to Cardston, Alberta, Canada, on “quarter-horses named Frosty, Dunn, and Rusty”	2,700
2000	Jean-Pierre Ligny	Bracquemont to Egletons, France, on “two Barb mares named Vajda and Diablesse.”	1,750
2000	Evelyn Landerer	From Tosontsengel, Zavhan to Lake Hovsgol, Mongolia, on "a semi tschoroo mor horse named Hermes."	1,250
2000	Kristoffer and Leah Everatt	From Watson Lake, to Keno through the McKenzie Mountains on "Liz, Bam-Bam, Jack (all Wild Yukon x Quarter horse x Percheron) and Meadow (Appaloosa x Wild Yukon x Quarter Horse)."	1,000
2001	Jose Hernandez	From San Diego to Washington, DC, on "Scarlett, a Stonewall Spotted Sport Horse."	3,200
2001	Lisa Wood	Across the United States from El Centro, California to Leesburg, Virginia on "a Mustang called Shawnee."	3,000
2001	Felix Kern	From Unterweißenbach, Austria, to Santiago de Campostella, Spain, on a Criollo horse.	2,500
2001	Karen Chaton	Along the Pony Express Trail from St. Joseph, Missouri to Virginia City, Nevada, on "my two Arabians, Dream Weaver and Rocky."	1,925
2001	Dario Masarotti and Antonietta Spizzo	From Premariacco, Italy, across Slovenia, Hungary and Transylvania to the painted monasteries of Bucovina, Romania, on "a bay half-Arab mare named Sebiba and an Anglo-Arab gelding called Terek."	1,250
2001	Debra Bumpus-Brown and Eva Paloheim	Through the American West	1,100
2002	Steve O'Connor	From Seville, Spain, to Penzance, England, on "Colina, an Arab-Spanish cross."	2,000
2002	Gene Glasscock	Equestrian journey to all 48 state capitals, on "Frank and George, two Tennessee Walkers."	20,000

The Equestrian Travel Timeline is a list of historic equestrian journeys that we know of. If you know of any others, please email us. Journeys made since the above are to be found in our Completed Expeditions section.

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