An amusing battle story, courtesy of The Age and Gulf News: “Tom Johnson, an intrepid 42-year-old distance runner from the United States, achieved the rare feat of winning a ‘man versus horse’ endurance race over 80 gruelling kilometres in the United Arab Emirates, a newspaper reported today.

“Johnson won by just 10 seconds over the purebred Arabian Al Barraq, ridden by Jennifer Nice, staged yesterday at the predominantly hilly Al Wathab Endurance Village, Gulf News said.”

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