South African is joint winner of world’s ‘longest and toughest horse race’
South African Willemien Jooste rode in as joint winner with American Deirdre Griffith in the 12th Mongol Derby endurance race, which ended on Saturday. The 1,000km race‚ which started in 2009‚ recreates the horse-messenger system developed by Genghis Khan‚ the founder of the Mongol Empire‚ in 1224. Using a network of horse stations‚ his messengers could gallop from his capital‚ Kharkhorin‚ to the Caspian Sea in a few days. The […]
