Houses are but badly built boats so firmly aground that you cannot think of moving them. The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final anchorage.
– Arthur Ransome, from Racundra’s First Cruise, 1923
Gin Szagola recently rode across southern Australia, including the brutally arid Nullarbor desert. She is the first person to travel across Australia with a single horse and no chase vehicle or support team.
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Congratulations to Gin Szagola and her Snowy Mountain Brumby, Fable, for having just completed what no other rider has ever done.
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The question isn’t where you’ve been. The question is: what’s that itchy picture in your brain, right between your eyes, of where you have to go next?
By Tom Sites / #77 Great / Great American Horse Race 1976 (Curtis Lewis / Dennis Underwood photo)
“That night, I dreamed of a dancing horse. The next day, I went back and bought him. I named him Jose Dante.”
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Tom Sites showed up to the starting line of the Great American Horse Race with $750, a $15 saddle, and a horse he barely knew—100 days later, he was one of only 54 finishers out of 92 starters.
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Read Tom’s account of riding in the Great American Horse Race here.
TranscriptIn every generation there are a few souls, call them lucky or cursed, who are simply born not belonging, who come into the world semi-detached,
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It was blowing Force 12 off Cape Horn fifty years ago today. I know because I was there.
