Tom Sites earned this patch for riding 1,966 miles across America in the Great American Horse Race. He had no crew, no experience, and a horse named Jose Dante who once ran him into traffic.
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.
Click on the player to listen to Gin’s story about riding a brumby across Australia .
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.
Click on the player to listen to Tom’s Great American Horse Race story.
Read Tom’s account of riding in the Great American Horse Race here.
