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Flying vet's frontline account of a brutal 400km Patagonian endurance race

Queenslandcountrylife.com.au - Full Article

By Campbell Costello
April 4 2026

The snow line had crept down overnight and as I reached out of my sleeping bag to find my headtorch - you could tell it was frigid with Patagonian cool.

I was manning the fourth veterinary checkpoint for a horse race across Patagonia; the inaugural "Pass of Tears".

A 400km multi horse endurance race that salutes the mighty Argentine "Criollo" horse and Gaucho horsemanship that allows one to navigate the unforgiving Patagonian terrain.

I was stationed at an Estancia called "La Josefina" - a 17,000 hectare ranch nestled along the northern shores of Lagos San Martin against the border with Chile...

Read more here:
https://www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/story/9210642/campbell-costello-patagonias-pass-of-tears-vet-on-wild-race/

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