The race where people run against horses

What BBN said about it

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThat cannot be real. A man against a horse? The horse has four legs and a built-in advantage!

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   Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorIt started because a pub landlord at the Neuadd Arms overheard two men arguing about which one was faster. That is the whole origin story.

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   Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorA bar argument.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorI love that. Settling bar disputes by foot race, that is how you do it.

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   Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorAnd the horses dominate! Nobody beats them for nine years. Then a cyclist named Tim Gould rolls in and beats a horse.

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   Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorThe first human ever to do it!

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorA bicycle. Rex, that's cheating, and I am so proud of him.

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   Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorBut the runners on foot? Nothing! The prize fund grows a thousand pounds every single year nobody claims it!

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   Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorThen Huw Lobb breaks through in two hours, five minutes and nineteen seconds, and he takes twenty-five thousand pounds!

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorTwenty-five thousand pounds. For beating a horse on foot.

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    Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorThat was the twenty-fifth race, in two thousand four, in Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales, and per Wikipedia, the runners won again in two thousand seven.

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    Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorEvery June since nineteen eighty.

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorWhich side would I have been on in that pub?

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    Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorThe landlord, Chip. He got a whole sport out of it and kept the bar tab.