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Holly Conyers
3rd August 2025
Day 2 of Pre-Race Training on the 2025 Mongol Derby dawned bright and sunny, with not a cloud in the endless steppe skies. Our riders leapt out of bed like children on Christmas morning. Today was the day: their long awaited first brush with the mythical Mongolian horse. But Santa had some tricks up his sleeve with these gift horses. While some riders took flight on perfect ponies, others returned back down to earth with a rather hard bump. Bootcamp has well and truly begun, and our riders have had a real taste of what the steppe has in store. With just one more day of training to go before they set off to tackle the longest and toughest horse race in the world, we take a look at how they’ve fared today.
But before we let our jockeys anywhere near an actual horse, we thought it best to give them a bit of an education on how to pilot their steeds in vaguely the right direction. While horsemanship talent is obviously a pretty useful skill out on the steppe, navigational nous comes a very close second. Riders in the Derby are completely responsible for navigating themselves between the Horse Stations which make up the checkpoints along the 1,000km Derby course. They must ride from HS1 to HS2 to HS3 and so forth in the correct order until they finally reach the finish line at HS29, but the route they pick between each of those stations is entirely their own problem...
Read more here:
https://equestrianists.com/updates/mongol-derby-2025-pre-race-training-day-2-x-marks-the-spot/
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