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play choices. I ended up playing a very steady palomino gelding fi rst and fourth and one I hadn’t played in practice, a grey mare named San-


gria, who ended up being my best horse in the second period on whom I had some great runs to goal. Our teammates, Julie Kava- nagh and Naomi Zwier (who was play- ing in her fi rst tournament) worked hard and were positive and fun teammates. We toasted each other with champagne at our good game and new friendships. T at night, after the adrenaline of the game had worn off , Liz, Kylie and I had dinner in Dublin with another Green Spring Valley hunt friend, Lucy Goelet, who had been in London and came over to cheer us on. Very fun to have her there! Our last day in Ireland, Sunday, we took in the famous Book of Kells at Trinity College Library, caught some Irish music around town, and quickly learned the rules of hurling at a pub as we watched the Ire- land Hurling Championship, It’s a game that makes lacrosse look slow! We had a great trip—fi t in a lot of sight-


row roads. T e warmth and friendliness of the Irish people everywhere we went was what I will remember long after the score of the game has faded. Ireland’s people are its most precious natural resource!


who developed one of the longest distance postal services of his time. His riders would ride throughout the Mongolian wilderness— only stopping to swap out horses—to deliver messages on time. With advancements in tech- nology, the postal route became unneces- sary, but its spirit was reborn a decade ago in the form of the Mongol Derby. T e Mongol Derby allows riders to re-


Marylander Cindy Halle played for team USA during a charity polo match in Ireland this summer.


Mongol Derby 2018


seeing, made some new friends, played a good game and had some good fun and adventures together. I managed to only trim a few hedges on the left side of the rental car on the nar-


By Stacey Wells, Equiery intern T is past August, Marylanders Carol Fer-


derighi and Jocelyn Pierce traveled to Mon- golia to take part in the famed Mongol Derby. T is Derby follows the path of Genghis Khan,


create the feeling of being alone in the wilderness with only a Mongolian horse as company. T e Derby covers 1000 km (621 miles) of valleys, hills, rivers, and forests with twenty-fi ve horse stations en route for changing mounts when necessary. Ferderighi was no amateur in the realms of endurance racing, but even she had mixed feelings about applying for the race but declared she was “looking for a new challenge.” Pierce also saw the Derby as a challenge and adventure, and even though she spent about a year preparing for the race, she said, “It still wasn’t quite enough.” In preparation, she spoke with past com-


petitors, traveled to Utah to work with world- renowned endurance rider Christoph Schrock, and spent hours in the saddle. Ferderighi and Pierce were given a couple of


days to acclimate themselves to their new en- vironment, in which time they received train-


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