RE: [RC] ultimate endurance ride - Diana M. Maloney
Title: Message
Not
sure if anyone answered this but - the book is "Tschiffely's Ride by A.F.
Tschiffely." Subtitle is: "Being the account of 10,000 miles in the saddle
through the Americas from Argentina to Washington." It was first published in
1952 with a second printing in 1965.
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Re: [RC] ultimate endurance ride
Maria,
I think Maryben is referring to Verne Albright
who wrote about riding Peruvian Pasos to Los Gatos from Peru in the
1960's. A little web search reveals that Verne was inspired by Amie F.
Tschiffely, who rode Mancha and Gato from Argentina to Washington, D.C. in the
1930's.
Julie Suhr's Marinera Ranch is named after
Marinera, a Peruvian mare imported by Verne, that she successfully rode in the
Tevis Cup Ride in the late '60's.
Last week I was talking to a friend about endurance riding
and she mentioned the fact that in 1925 or 1926 ( she was 5-6 year old at
that time and living on a ranch close to Laredo, TX) she met a man who was
on a ride with two horses from Argentina to Washington DC. He spend the
night at their ranch and let her (my friend) sit on his horses. She has a
beautiful picture of this endurance rider posing with his two horses at
their ranch. She does not remember the rider's name, but she
knows that the horses were named "Gato" and "Mancho". She knows he
wrote a book about his travels which we both would love to read.
Does anybody know this person's name?
Thanks,
Maria Berger, TX
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