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3rd MichiGradinger (Austria).
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Just reading up on the event ... Paul Carberry would be right at home at it
http://www.theadventurists.com/mongol-derby-handbook
This warning is not intended to put you off, however we need to be absolutely sure that you want to partake in the Mongol Derby 2012 and that you are 100% clear about the risk involved before you agree to partake in the Mongol Derby 2012. Whilst much of the Mongol Derby website may be written in a light-hearted manner please do not underestimate the extreme nature of the Mongol Derby. This will be only the fourth event of its kind meaning that you may suffer short and long term physical affects that cannot be foreseen.
We would like to suggest you ponder upon the following…
This is a 1000 km race across very wild and remote terrain. It will be tiring, relentless, difficult and extremely dangerous.
You will be on your own riding across a previously unseen course in one of the most remote regions on earth. There will be no one to guide you and you will be responsible for getting yourself and your horse between one urtuu and the next.
Horse riding in the context of the Mongol Derby 2012 means riding a series of unfamiliar horses across wild Mongolian terrain. The horses you will be riding in the Mongol Derby are semi-wild Mongolian horses, totally different to anything you may be used to. They don't come when you call, they don't understand anthropomorphic 'petting', and if you rustle a raincoat from the saddle, they'll put you straight on the floor!
By taking part in this race you are greatly increasing your risk of severe physical damage or death. You could break limbs, suffer internal injuries, become paralysed or even die. Falls from horses can result in, for example, broken bones, spinal injuries, brain damage and death. Riders on the Mongol Derby have suffered broken bones, torn ligaments and severe soft tissue injuries, and almost every rider has fallen off at least once.
The nature of the Mongol Derby 2012 means that if you do fall off, the response time of the medical back up will depend on your location and your ability to activate your emergency beacon. This means you may be numerous hours and miles away from the nearest medical assistance. If you are injured in a way the requires specialist attention, it may be the case that Mongolia does not have adequate medical facilities to treat your injuries. In the past, severely injured people have had to be medivacced out of Mongolia to medical centres in alternative countries
The total cost of the event is £5,950. You may pay this either in one lump sum or in a series of four instalments, the latter of which will incur a £100 administrative fee.
You will be responsible for the welfare of the horses you are provided with between one Urtuu and the next. In order to ensure that you do not lose or abandon any of your horses a £400 deposit will be levied prior to the race. This will be used to compensate the owner of a horse which is lost or destroyed as a result of the Derby.
If you accept the place and go on to agree to the terms and conditions as outlined in the Rider Entry Agreement, you will be given access to the rider section of the website, which includes a comprehensive rider handbook.
http://www.theadventurists.com/mongol-derby-handbook
This warning is not intended to put you off, however we need to be absolutely sure that you want to partake in the Mongol Derby 2012 and that you are 100% clear about the risk involved before you agree to partake in the Mongol Derby 2012. Whilst much of the Mongol Derby website may be written in a light-hearted manner please do not underestimate the extreme nature of the Mongol Derby. This will be only the fourth event of its kind meaning that you may suffer short and long term physical affects that cannot be foreseen.
We would like to suggest you ponder upon the following…
This is a 1000 km race across very wild and remote terrain. It will be tiring, relentless, difficult and extremely dangerous.
You will be on your own riding across a previously unseen course in one of the most remote regions on earth. There will be no one to guide you and you will be responsible for getting yourself and your horse between one urtuu and the next.
Horse riding in the context of the Mongol Derby 2012 means riding a series of unfamiliar horses across wild Mongolian terrain. The horses you will be riding in the Mongol Derby are semi-wild Mongolian horses, totally different to anything you may be used to. They don't come when you call, they don't understand anthropomorphic 'petting', and if you rustle a raincoat from the saddle, they'll put you straight on the floor!
By taking part in this race you are greatly increasing your risk of severe physical damage or death. You could break limbs, suffer internal injuries, become paralysed or even die. Falls from horses can result in, for example, broken bones, spinal injuries, brain damage and death. Riders on the Mongol Derby have suffered broken bones, torn ligaments and severe soft tissue injuries, and almost every rider has fallen off at least once.
The nature of the Mongol Derby 2012 means that if you do fall off, the response time of the medical back up will depend on your location and your ability to activate your emergency beacon. This means you may be numerous hours and miles away from the nearest medical assistance. If you are injured in a way the requires specialist attention, it may be the case that Mongolia does not have adequate medical facilities to treat your injuries. In the past, severely injured people have had to be medivacced out of Mongolia to medical centres in alternative countries
The total cost of the event is £5,950. You may pay this either in one lump sum or in a series of four instalments, the latter of which will incur a £100 administrative fee.
You will be responsible for the welfare of the horses you are provided with between one Urtuu and the next. In order to ensure that you do not lose or abandon any of your horses a £400 deposit will be levied prior to the race. This will be used to compensate the owner of a horse which is lost or destroyed as a result of the Derby.
If you accept the place and go on to agree to the terms and conditions as outlined in the Rider Entry Agreement, you will be given access to the rider section of the website, which includes a comprehensive rider handbook.
thats about what they are fit for......riding mongolians.....
I know Richie, lovely fella, fair play to the two of them. Bobby, you are an absolute clown.
Donal Fahey and Richie Killoran finish first and second in Mongol Derby
A Mongolian farmer’s worst nightmare – well, let’s face it, anyone’s worst nightmare – was realised last week.
By Marcus Armytage TELEGRAPH.CO.UK 20 Aug 2012
Two filthy, sweaty Irish jockeys, who had been in the saddle for eight hours, knocked on his ger, somewhere on the Mongolian steppe, in the dark of night and asked if he would mind if they joined him in bed.
Donal Fahy and Richie Killoran were not lost en route to Ffos Las but were on their way to an Irish one-two in the Mongolian Derby.
On that cosy night they swelled the numbers dwelling in what we would regard as a comfortable four-man tent to a dozen, Killoran wedged between the farmer’s mother-in-law and his six children. On another night it was a cattle shed; anything to get a roof over their heads.
The Mongolian Derby, run over more than 1,000km (620 miles), is not for the faint-hearted. The pair completed the event in eight days and only half the 34 runners finished. This year’s injured included a suspected broken neck, a broken collarbone and a punctured lung.
“It was and it wasn’t fun. There were times when we thought 'what are we doing?’ It’s the toughest thing I’ve ever done. I never thought my first winner after breaking my back would be this,” said Fahy.
As ever, I am more interested in the lows than the highs.
“On day two one of our ponies refused to trot after 15km. It was 30 degrees, we were in the middle of nowhere and tried everything from pulling, to dragging, to chasing it and tying it to the other pony,” recalled Killoran.
That they both now consider the words lost and mountain as swearing tells its own story.
Crossing swollen rivers was also a challenge. “Some natives showed us the best place to cross one river,” said Killoran. “I’m afraid of heights, the rocks were slipping underneath the ponies’ feet, it was almost vertical and vultures were circling – below us. One wrong move and we would have had it.”
None of their misfortune matched that of a competitor, who stopped to answer the call of nature. His pony was spooked by him pulling toilet paper from his pocket.
The golden rule is not to let these semi-wild animals loose because you will never catch them again so, determinedly, he hung on and was dragged some way across the steppe with his trousers around his ankles.
Eventually he let go and sometime later a local retrieved his mount. Now feeling doubly relieved, he offered the local his baseball cap as a reward but the Mongolian horse catcher demanded his watch instead. So his comfort break, if it can be truly described as that, cost him a lot more than a penny.
PHOTOGRAPH FINISH
Richard Dunwoody, the two-time Grand National-winning jockey, three-times champion, polar explorer, ballroom dancer and
1,000-mile walker, was the official photographer for this year’s Mongolian Derby.
Dunwoody, 48, has recently completed a nine-month course at the Spéos Photographic Institute in Paris and, having seen some of his pictures of Afghans playing buzkashi – polo with a dead goat and considerably more players – I would say he is hugely better behind the lens than he is on the dance floor.
A Mongolian farmer’s worst nightmare – well, let’s face it, anyone’s worst nightmare – was realised last week.
By Marcus Armytage TELEGRAPH.CO.UK 20 Aug 2012
Two filthy, sweaty Irish jockeys, who had been in the saddle for eight hours, knocked on his ger, somewhere on the Mongolian steppe, in the dark of night and asked if he would mind if they joined him in bed.
Donal Fahy and Richie Killoran were not lost en route to Ffos Las but were on their way to an Irish one-two in the Mongolian Derby.
On that cosy night they swelled the numbers dwelling in what we would regard as a comfortable four-man tent to a dozen, Killoran wedged between the farmer’s mother-in-law and his six children. On another night it was a cattle shed; anything to get a roof over their heads.
The Mongolian Derby, run over more than 1,000km (620 miles), is not for the faint-hearted. The pair completed the event in eight days and only half the 34 runners finished. This year’s injured included a suspected broken neck, a broken collarbone and a punctured lung.
“It was and it wasn’t fun. There were times when we thought 'what are we doing?’ It’s the toughest thing I’ve ever done. I never thought my first winner after breaking my back would be this,” said Fahy.
As ever, I am more interested in the lows than the highs.
“On day two one of our ponies refused to trot after 15km. It was 30 degrees, we were in the middle of nowhere and tried everything from pulling, to dragging, to chasing it and tying it to the other pony,” recalled Killoran.
That they both now consider the words lost and mountain as swearing tells its own story.
Crossing swollen rivers was also a challenge. “Some natives showed us the best place to cross one river,” said Killoran. “I’m afraid of heights, the rocks were slipping underneath the ponies’ feet, it was almost vertical and vultures were circling – below us. One wrong move and we would have had it.”
None of their misfortune matched that of a competitor, who stopped to answer the call of nature. His pony was spooked by him pulling toilet paper from his pocket.
The golden rule is not to let these semi-wild animals loose because you will never catch them again so, determinedly, he hung on and was dragged some way across the steppe with his trousers around his ankles.
Eventually he let go and sometime later a local retrieved his mount. Now feeling doubly relieved, he offered the local his baseball cap as a reward but the Mongolian horse catcher demanded his watch instead. So his comfort break, if it can be truly described as that, cost him a lot more than a penny.
PHOTOGRAPH FINISH
Richard Dunwoody, the two-time Grand National-winning jockey, three-times champion, polar explorer, ballroom dancer and
1,000-mile walker, was the official photographer for this year’s Mongolian Derby.
Dunwoody, 48, has recently completed a nine-month course at the Spéos Photographic Institute in Paris and, having seen some of his pictures of Afghans playing buzkashi – polo with a dead goat and considerably more players – I would say he is hugely better behind the lens than he is on the dance floor.
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