Extreme distance jockey is abandoned in MONGOLIA after falling violently sick during the world’s toughest horse race – as she reveals shock response from organizers

An excessive distance jockey has been left deserted in Mongolia after falling violently in poor health simply days earlier than she was set to compete on this planet’s hardest horse race.

Dede Anders, 49, was excited to compete within the nine-day-long 2024 Mongol Derby, however on Monday she began feeling sick – and knew she wouldn’t have the ability to endure the 620-mile trek throughout the Mongolian Steppe.

However when she expressed her issues to medical employees on the derby, Anders mentioned she was dismissed and instructed to ‘journey it out,’ she instructed Cowboy State Day by day.

When she once more argued that she was not feeling effectively sufficient to journey a ‘semi-feral’ Mongolian horse for days on finish, occasion organizers booked her a cab again to the capital metropolis of Ulaanbaatar – however didn’t get her a resort room or e-book a flight again to the US, leaving it as much as her to seek out her means house.

Anders, of Wyoming, mentioned she was wanting ahead to the derby.

She instructed the Powell Tribune how she would soar on feral horses as a toddler, and have become a barrel racer and group roper when she grew to become sufficiently old.

‘I have been using my entire life,’ she mentioned. ‘I grew up on a little bit ranch in Greybull, and I journey nearly daily once I’m house.’ 

So when she realized of the Mongol Derby – a notoriously treacherous race based in 2009 – she thought it was a dream come true.

‘Each little lady reads books about Mongolian horses, Black Magnificence, all these issues,’ she mentioned. 

‘I had been horse endurance races, so I threw my hat in.’

She crammed out a questionnaire for The Equestrianists, the group that places on the Mongol Derby, and submitted movies of her using. 

For a number of months, she mentioned she didn’t hear something again from the group – and began to lose hope.

‘In October of final yr, I noticed an article in one other journal concerning the derby and was so mad I did not even need to learn it, however that night time I obtained known as,’ Anders recounted.

Race organizers instructed her on the time that she was on the waitlist for the 2025 Mongol Derby, however when one other rider dropped out of this yr’s contest a couple of months in the past, Anders was in a position to take their spot.

‘I is perhaps loopy, however I am prepared,’ she instructed Cowboy State Day by day final month. 

She determined she would journey to gather cash for Wyo Hoofbeats Equine Assisted Studying, a nonprofit that provides equine-assisted studying and psychotherapy packages for the aged, at-risk youngsters and households and people dealing with psychological well being struggles.

However she mentioned her first objective could be to complete the harmful race.

‘I’ve brothers who will heckle me if I do not end, in order that’s one other motivating issue,’ she mentioned.

Anders arrived in Mongolia’s capitol metropolis of Ulaanbaatar on August 1, however began to really feel sick on Monday

After months of preparation, Anders arrived in Mongolia’s capitol metropolis of Ulaanbaatar on August 1, and was dropped at the derby’s start line eight hours away with different riders.

She then began feeling sick on Monday. 

‘It is quite a lot of gastrointestinal stuff,’ Anders mentioned. ‘I used to be throwing up and stuff like that.’

Two medics on the base camp then examined her.

‘They instructed me I wanted nothing, however did nothing for me,’ Anders mentioned. ‘They instructed me to journey it out.

‘One of many medics did not even contact me or ask me any questions,’ she continued.

‘The opposite one took my pulse for a few seconds. They did not take my vitals, did not ask if I used to be diabetic or what medicines I used to be taking,’ mentioned Anders, who’s a former medic within the US Military with a doctorate in medical science and emergency drugs from Lincoln Memorial College in Tennessee.

‘All they instructed me was it could cross in 24 hours.’ 

However Anders realized that despite the fact that she was not thought-about ‘critically in poor health’ she was not effectively sufficient to endure the trek.

She mentioned she spoke about her issues with the race director, Katherine.

‘Katherine got here to my yurt and talked to me no less than twice. I instructed her I used to be sick each days,’ Anders recounted.

Riders trek by means of the Mongolian Steppe on ‘semi-feral’ horses within the nine-day race

Ultimately, race administrators summoned a driver to take her again to Ulaanbaatar – however didn’t e-book her a resort or a flight again to the US.

‘They put me in a car for eight hours sick with a GI bug, with a driver who barely spoke English,’ Anders lamented.

‘I had to make use of Expedia from base camp to e-book a resort, had the motive force cease within the metropolis and get my passport so I may lastly test right into a resort.’

She now says she needs the derby organizers did extra.

‘I used to be too in poor health to get on a horse for 620 miles. However I used to be additionally too in poor health to get in a automobile for eight hours and be dumped off right into a metropolis and not using a passport or a flight house.’ 

Anders famous that she has since reached out to occasion organizers, however has not obtained a response.

‘Now I am caught right here they usually could not give a c***,’ she mentioned, noting the primary flight she may catch doesn’t depart till Sunday – and can solely get her so far as Seattle, Washington.

‘I simply need to get again to the US,’ she mentioned. 

Anders described the expertise as ‘form of a multitude’ and ‘not very organized’

However she can also be hoping she could possibly be reimbursed for the journey and entry prices.

‘I paid round $30,000 to go over for this factor,’ Anders mentioned. ‘My entry price alone was nearly $17,000 – and I did not even get my blood strain taken once I was sick.’

In all, Anders says the expertise she had been wanting ahead to has been ‘form of a multitude’ and ‘not very organized.’

‘I get up at 1.30 within the morning to throw up within the Mongolian Steppe, and I hear Miley Cyrus’s Occasion within the USA blasting and everyone’s drunk,’ she recounted to Cowboy State Day by day.

‘I instructed the race director that if I wished to be uncovered to Miley Cyrus blasted at 1:30 within the morning, I’d have gone to any trailer park in Wyoming.’ 

DailyMail.com has reached out to The Equestrianists for remark.