Lara Prior-Palmer

Lara Prior-Palmer (born 24 June 1994)^{[citation needed]} is an athlete and writer. She is the niece of British equestrian Lucinda Green.^{[citation needed]}

Mongol Derby

In 2013 Prior-Palmer became the first woman to win the Mongol Derby, the world's longest horse race,^[1] as well as the youngest person ever to complete it.^[2][3] Her autobiography Rough Magic, recounting her experience competing in the race, was published in 2019.^[4] The memoir received positive reviews in The Washington Post^[5] and The Daily Telegraph:^[6] 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."^[7]