Lara Prior-Palmer
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Lara Prior-Palmer (born 24 June 1994){{cn|date=October 2020}} is an athlete and writer. She is the niece of British equestrian Lucinda Green.{{cn|date=October 2020}}
Mongol Derby
In 2013 Prior-Palmer became the first woman to win the Mongol Derby, the world's longest horse race,{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/horse-racing/23767542|work=BBC Sport|title=Briton reflects on Mongol Derby win|date=20 August 2013|accessdate =3 October 2020}} as well as the youngest person ever to complete it.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/activityandadventure/10237235/Briton-becomes-first-woman-to-win-Mongol-Derby.html|work=The Daily Telegraph|first=Jolyon|last=Attwooll|title =Briton becomes first woman to win Mongol Derby|date=12 August 2013|accessdate=3 October 2020}}{{cite web|url=http://mongolderbyblog.theadventurists.com/2013/08/10/lara-prior-palmer-wins-the-mongol-derby-2013-in-dramatic-fashion|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130817090058/http://mongolderbyblog.theadventurists.com/2013/08/10/lara-prior-palmer-wins-the-mongol-derby-2013-in-dramatic-fashion|work=the Adventurist|first=Richard|last=Dunwoody|title=Lara Prior-Palmer wins the Mongol Derby 2013 in dramatic fashion|date=10 August 2013|archivedate=17 August 2013|url-status=dead}} Her autobiography Rough Magic, recounting her experience competing in the race, was published in 2019.{{cite book|url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1115945/rough-magic/9781785038853.html|title=Rough Magic: Riding the world's wildest horse race|author=Lara Prior-Palmer|publisher=Ebury Press|date=6 July 2019|isbn=9781785038853}} The memoir received positive reviews in The Washington Post{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/at-19-on-a-whim-she-entered-the-worlds-most-grueling-horse-race--and-won/2019/05/29/a2a2dc34-6784-11e9-a1b6-b29b90efa879_story.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|title=At 19, on a whim, she entered the world's most grueling horse race — and won|first=Ellie|last=Robins|date=30 May 2019|accessdate=3 October 2020}} and The Daily Telegraph:{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/win-worlds-wildest-horse-race-told-one-2019s-best-memoirs|work=The Daily Telegraph|title=How to win the world's wildest horse race — as told in one of 2019's best memoirs|first=Helen|last=Brown|date=13 July 2019|accessdate=3 October 2020}} Sarah Moss, writing in The Guardian, stated: "It's the resistance to the obvious narratives that makes Rough Magic so appealing: the book undermines lazy women-in-the-wilderness tropes at every turn."{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/08/rough-magic-by-lara-prior-palmer-review|work=The Guardian|title=Rough Magic by Lara Prior-Palmer review – winning at 19 a 600-mile horse race|first=Sarah|last=Moss|date=8 June 2019|accessdate=3 October 2020}}
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Category:British female equestrians
Category:British women memoirists
Category:21st-century British memoirists