Youngest Mongol Derby winner's inspirational steppes to success

Rough Magic by Lara Prior-Palmer
Available to buy from Racing Post Books, £16.99

In 2013 Lara Prior-Palmer became the youngest winner of the Mongol Derby, a feat of endurance across the vast Mongolian plains once traversed by the people of Genghis Khan.

Rough Magic traces Prior-Palmer's journey as she recounts the restlessness that pushed her to enter and how, as an underprepared 19-year-old, she left the comforts of England in search of adventure.

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Published on 9 November 2019inFeatures

Last updated 20:33, 8 November 2019

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