Katherine’s Jodie Ward has finished in equal sixth place in the world’s toughest horse race, the 2017 Mongol Derby.
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The race was completed this week across 1000 gruelling kilometres across the Mongolian steppe on semi-broken ponies.
Jodie took the opportunity to compete in the race to help raised money for the Leukemia Foundation.
The derby was jointly won by 29 year-old Ed Fernon, an Olympic pentathlete from Sydney, Australia, and 51 year-old Barry Armitage, a former professional sailor turned adventurer, from South Africa.
They crossed the finish line together in ‘stinking hot conditions’ and have covered the 1000km’s in seven days riding 12 hours a day – and in some of the worst conditions the race has ever seen.
The race is over Genghis Khan's ancient mail delivery route across the remotest parts of the vast country.