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BY Wendy Wilkinson
August 27, 2024
The latest trick in trick rider Kansas Carradine’s impressive equestrian career? Riding 300-plus miles across remote Patagonia in the famously grueling Gaucho Derby.
“Imagine yourself thundering deep into the wilds of Patagonia on horseback. You’ve got your steed and you’re navigating across some of the wildest terrain on earth attempting to win one of the toughest and most unusual equine challenges in history,” reads a description from The Equestrianists website. “This is the greatest test of horsemanship and wilderness skills on earth. This is the Gaucho Derby.”
Trick rider Kansas Carradine didn’t have to imagine it. She did it.
If you couldn’t be on a horse with equestrians from 11 different countries riding at the “end of the world” through the wilds of Argentina, enduring diverse terrains and unpredictable elements for the 2024 Gaucho Derby, the second-best thing might have been staying glued to the action with real-time updates. For this author, that meant direct messages from Carradine herself while she was in the saddle competing a continent away...
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