Chasing Dreams: The True Story of the Youngest Female Tevis Cup Champion

Sanoma Blakeley is the youngest woman to have ever won the Tevis Cup, the most famous 100-mile endurance horse race in the world. Blakeley began competing in endurance horse races when she was seven years old, and has since competed in 99 competitions with 31 different horses. She has won 25 races, placed second 11 times, and finished third 14 times. When she won the Tevis Cup in 2019, she was 18 years old, and was featured on CNN and dozens of other media outlets. Blakeley's writing has appeared in Endurance News, Tevis Forum, and Arabian Horse Life Magazine. She regularly blogs for Riding Warehouse. Blakeley lives near Bend, Oregon, where she works at her family's renowned horse training facility, Blakeley Endurance Stables.