If You Were Doing a 112 Mile

That would depend on terraine, weather and horse.

My endurance horse - one day, ride divided into stages of no more than 30 km and a vet check and 40 mintue hold after each stage.

My TB/Clydie cross can walk all day, so she would need a week or more.
 
Last year a couple of friends and I did the Ridgeway in Wiltshire, Oxon, Berkshire. 42 miles in 2 days. Horses and riders were all hunting fit but we noticed that 20 miles with an hours rest at lunch was justabout their comfort zone. After that they slowed to a crawl and were obviously exhausted. Have a look at the long riders guild. Have fun.
 
Thanks Guys Looking at Getting The Pony Parts as Real as I Can Get Them, The Pony in Question is Hunting Fit But ONLY 9hh.....

So I'm Thinking that That Would Effect the Mileage Greatly, Right?
 
Is the pony doing it the only pony? A fit little pony could maybe do 20 miles a day but if was keeping up with a bigger horse it would have to go faster at a walk to keep up than if it was alone setting it's own pace?
 
Yes - a Shetland (small one at that) will take a lot longer to complete that distance.

How many miles do you cover when hunting and how many hours are you out?
 
I Don't Ride Anymore ***CRY*** And Never Had The Pleasure to Go Hunting....

This is Why I'm Asking The Best People to Ask....
All this Info is for This DARN Book I'm Trying to Write..... I'm Trying to Get the Pony Parts as Real as I Can Get Them While Still in Line With the Plot.....

If That Makes Sense.... LOL LOL LOL
 
The Tevis cup is 100 miles in one day (24 hours) and the endurance trials from 1919 - 1923 that I have an article about were 300 miles long, but 60 miles was covered per day for 5 consecutive days. I can't imagine a 9hh pony doing that much though.
 
I have an 11.2 pony and would imagine he could do 20 miles in a day but with a journey of 125 miles that's several consecutive (I am guessing?) days of 20 mile rides which could be a bit much

I'd think 15 miles a day more realistic for a very small pony
 
I used to take my Shetland on organised endurance rides. You've got to remember that little legs doing 20 miles is the same as longer legs doing 40 miles.

Covering 10-20 miles a day is reasonable.
 
Thanks Guys

It's Me on the Pony in Book, I Have NO Time Constraints..... So Just Take My Time Really and See How I Go? Was Thinking Hunting Fit....

If I Did The 2o Miles a Day I Would Defiantly Break The Miles up With Maybe 2 Hour Breaks but Wouldn't Want to Travel at Night....
 
When I have been away with my pony on holiday I usually find 15-20 miles a day is plenty and it makes for a nicer time to keep it under 18 most days. Most of this is for my benefit as I get bad knees if I ride for too long but with sightseeing, opening gates and route finding it's better not to be in a rush. Doing this mileage daily my pony never seems tired and I'm sure he'd go further without any bother. At a slow pace he'd go all day , it's going at speed that tires him.
 
I dug out some old notes from my own research into travel distances, but now I notice that you say "would", not "could". Oh well, I'll paste my notes here anyway, might be of interest to you despite not being exactly what you requested.

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mounted knight & destrier - up to 100km/d but "normal" good travel day 30-50km

Modern endurance: 160km rides, 14-15 hours. Note: the rider may get off and run with their horse partway.

US Cavalry: 50-65km/d but can be pushed to double that. (Will need several days recovering from that.)

The US Cavalry Mounted Service Cup: ~300 miles (~480km) in 5 days, 1919 - 200lbs (90kg) 1920-> 245lbs (111kg); 1919 winning horse 51h 26min

humans: easily walk ~50km/d; can outrun horses; persistence hunting; ultramarathons up to 160km, fastest 160km less than 12h; furthest in 48h 430+km
 
Well I'd say a good section of each 10 miles be would be in trot or canter, thinking back to victorian times messengers would cover miles at the canter as they were going for speed, but the pony is only small.... I'd believe that a fit Shetland carrying a light weight could canter at least a few miles a day :)

How is book coming on?
 
Horses used to do 50/60miles/day 6days a week as your average farm/market/church runaround back in the day. I can dig out my hackney sources if you like. This is things like hackney ponies and the welshes. Could be ridden or driven, sustained trot favoured.
 
My 34" mini Shetland can easily cover 25km per day attaining speeds of 8-10kmh carrying a 5 year old child. He will easily keep up with (and indeed often beat!) a 14-15.2 horse. That's barefoot and fed hay and no hard feed.
 
Sounds like it's coming along well :) American Christmas films are good for snow inspiration, they always have loads of the stuff! :biggrin3:

FfionWinnie, am sure Centuress would love a pic of Titchy for research purposes/inspiration .......... (well I'd like a pic for cuteness purposes :biggrin3:)
 
ElleSkywalker said:
Sounds like it's coming along well :) American Christmas films are good for snow inspiration, they always have loads of the stuff! :biggrin3:

FfionWinnie, am sure Centuress would love a pic of Titchy for research purposes/inspiration .......... (well I'd like a pic for cuteness purposes :biggrin3:)
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Lol ok but not new ones as he is well outgrown now by my daughter. Partner has a 3yr old daughter who is now riding him but don't think I can put pics up.

This one was after three hours on the beach including when she fell off and he took off through he dunes and I couldn't catch up/pass him on the one I was riding. Luckily someone caught him. We have never actually tired him out he's a lean mean galloping machine. Think it was her last hack on him before we got her new one actually.
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