BorderTelegraph.com - Full Article
11 September 2022
By John Hislop
TWO Borders women known as Doddie’5 Dazzlers have pushed their bodies to the limit in the world’s longest and toughest horse race.
And in the process they have raised around £40,000 to help find a cure for MND.
In 1224 Genghis Khan set up the world’s first long-distance postal transmission system, using a massive network of horse stations known as Urtuus at 35km intervals.
And for ten days each August, the Mongol Derby recreates this legendary system along the entire 1,000km course.
Riders use semi-broken Mongolian horses which are only 12-14 hands high, but they are the toughest and most fit-for-purpose partners imaginable.
Last month Alice Gully, 46, from Heriot and Kate Mactaggart, 46, from Jedburgh took part in the race, riding in temperatures which ranged from freezing to 38 degrees centigrade. The pair survived ‘brutal’ conditions along the 1,000km route across mountains, rivers and desert through the Mongolian Steppe, living on a diet of offal and mutton...
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https://www.bordertelegraph.com/news/21253141.doddie5-dazzlers-raise-40-000-mnd-research/
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