A collective gasp escapes the 5,000-strong crowd as Savannah McCarthy races at blink-and-you’ll-miss-it speed on horseback down the main street of the highest incorporated city in North America.
The flanks of her mount, Tank, glisten in the sunlight with decorative sparkles as the pair fly down Leadville’s historic Harrison Avenue, pulling a skier behind them with a 30-foot rope through an obstacle course of jumps and ring-grabbing over a track of hard-packed snow – as the crowd goes wild.
The trio mark the first team competing this weekend in Leadville’s 77th annual skijoring competition, which for years was one of only a handful of events in North America dedicated to the lightning-fast, exciting and fundamentally dangerous spectacle of a sport. The Leadville race bills itself as 'the Grand Daddy of 'em all.’
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