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Horse & Hound Trending: Credit: Nikita Gretsi A man who learnt to ride only two years ago will take on an epic journey around the world journey on horses currently living wild in the woods of Siberia. Hertfordshire-based Nikita Gretsi, 21, will begin “The Last Great Journey” in Magadan, Russia, and will ride across Eurasia – covering 15,000km, 11 time zones and eight countries – to London. From there, he plans to ride a further 6,000km across north America, plus another part of Russia, to finish. Nikita, who is of Russian, Ukranian, Estonian and Uzbek heritage, told H&H he ...

Horsetalk.co.nz A tribute to Basha: Long rider’s legacy will endure Basha O’Reilly and Count Pompeii. Long rider Lucy Leaf, who rode 7000 miles through the United States, pays tribute to the late Basha O’Reilly, a legend of long-distance equestrian adventure, who died on January 13. I never met her. Nor CuChullaine for that matter. But I feel I know her, for I’ve read her story, and that of her stallion, Count Pompeii, whose legend carries on in the extraordinary website she created as the hub of the Long Riders’ Guild. This is her work, I know, for she was the IT person. T...

Horsetalk.co.nz Basha O’Reilly, adventurer and renowned Long Rider, dies at 73 Basha and Count Pompeii set off to ride from Volgograd, Russia to London, England. Basha O’Reilly wasn’t born in the saddle, but it didn’t take her long to climb on a horse and begin a life filled with adventure and romance. From the moment she climbed aboard her first pony, Mustard, she was destined to be an equestrian explorer. Basha, who died in France on January 13 after a brief illness, found solace in the saddle, feeding what came to be an insatiable appetite to see the world on horseback.