Glory for Britain and Australia in the 2018 Mongol Derby

the 10th Mongol Derby, the longest and toughest horse race in the world, 1000km across the Mongolian steppe, was won by Adrian Corboy from Australia and Annabel Neasham, a 27 year old Brit from Oxfordshire. Annabel is Racing Manager to Ciaron Maher in Melbourne and Adrian stepped in at the last minute for Ciaron and is one of his work riders and backs horses for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

The pair crossed the line at 13.25 today (Mongolia time) having received no vet penalties at all throughout the race. HQ reports:

“We’ve seen great horsemanship from both - clear vet cards. At every station AC carries both saddles in giving the horses a break while AN dumps the remains of their hydration packs on their horses to cool them down #mongolderby2018”

The pair completed the race in six days and faced typical Mongolian weather – monsoon rain, fog, boiling hot sun, cold one minute, hot the next – as well as a flooded steppe with lots of rivers to cross.

AN on finishing the Mongol Derby- “people say when they finish, they could easily do another 1,000km, well...I think I’m good with this”

Do continue to follow the closing stage of this brilliant race viatwitter
or dot watching on the unbelievably complicated tracker map here
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Liz Ampairee | Mongol Derby Media Guru

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