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3/27/2006, 02:29 PM
A New Frontier in Sport
Mon, Mar. 27, 2006
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/front/14194230.htm
800 miles, 1,000 horses: A new frontier in sport?
Plans for cross-country trail race pick up speed
By EDWARD M. EVELD
The Kansas City Star
This is either madcap dreaming or the genesis of an American sports tradition: a horseback race from the historic plaza in Santa Fe, N.M., to the historic square in Independence.
That's 800 miles, give or take, along the storied Santa Fe Trail.
Organizers are calling it The Great Santa Fe Trail Horse Race, proposed as an annual event with the first race set for September 2007. It would traverse northeastern New Mexico and the Oklahoma Panhandle, run the breadth of Kansas and end on Missouri's western edge. Each leg of the two-week race would stop at a "race village," spaced at intervals of 50 to 80 miles.
One hundred teams would vie for a $100,000 purse. Each team would field one rider and 10 horses.
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Mon, Mar. 27, 2006
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/front/14194230.htm
800 miles, 1,000 horses: A new frontier in sport?
Plans for cross-country trail race pick up speed
By EDWARD M. EVELD
The Kansas City Star
This is either madcap dreaming or the genesis of an American sports tradition: a horseback race from the historic plaza in Santa Fe, N.M., to the historic square in Independence.
That's 800 miles, give or take, along the storied Santa Fe Trail.
Organizers are calling it The Great Santa Fe Trail Horse Race, proposed as an annual event with the first race set for September 2007. It would traverse northeastern New Mexico and the Oklahoma Panhandle, run the breadth of Kansas and end on Missouri's western edge. Each leg of the two-week race would stop at a "race village," spaced at intervals of 50 to 80 miles.
One hundred teams would vie for a $100,000 purse. Each team would field one rider and 10 horses.
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