After 16 hours pushing through the world's most rigorous endurance horse race, 18-year-old Sanoma Blakeley and her horse Goober were sprinting all-out under a black sky in California's Gold Rush country.
Neck and neck with them was a three-time winner of the race, Jeremy Reynolds. Blakeley, meanwhile, was striding atop a horse her family found for free on Craigslist."He passed me a couple of times in the last four miles," Blakely told CNN."We were running our horses as fast as they were willing to go." In the end, Blakeley finished about a horse length in front of her competitor.After galloping out at 5:15 a.m.
"We've gotten a few good horses on Craigslist."The family owns Blakeley Endurance Stables, where Goober is one of seven horses under their care.The horse may not have come from strong racing stock, but Blakeley does. Her mother has completed six Tevis Cups and her father has finished five of the races.Blakeley began racing horses in the American Endurance Ride Conference when she was just 6 years old.
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