August 13, 2013

Call of the wild: British teen jockey Laura Prior-Palmer rides into the history books of Mongolia | Metro News

Call of the wild: British teen jockey Laura Prior-Palmer rides into the history books of Mongolia | Metro News: "A teenage jockey has galloped into the history books by winning the world’s ‘longest and toughest horse race’.

Laura Prior-Palmer is the youngest ever winner of the Mongol Derby – she is also the first female rider to win and the first British winner in the race’s five-year history.

She led a field of 30 riders home in the 1,000km (620-mile), seven-day race across Mongolia."

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