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Annual burro race in Idaho Springs ends neck and neck BY ANDREW FRAIELI AFRAIELI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Burros took over Georgetown and Idaho Springs over Memorial Day weekend, wandering down Miner Street to the starting line of the mountain towns’ annual burro races. May 29 saw racers starting at the intersection of Miner Street and 17th Avenue in Idaho Springs, running — or galloping — all the way to Virginia Canyon Road and Two Brothers Road, before heading back down Buttermilk Gulch to Wall Street, finishing at a crowded Virginia Street and 16th Avenue for a total of about six miles. The winner of the race, with a time of 41:03, was Bob Sweeney — the winner of the Georgetown race the day before, and of the Idaho Springs race last year. After the race, he said he was feeling good, having beat his time last year by about five minutes. He said Yukon, his burro, was “ready and waiting for another.” Sweeney finished neck and neck with Travis Macy. Before the race, Sweeney mentioned that Macy was close behind him the entire Georgetown race the day before, and to watch for him on his backside this race. He was proven right when Macy came in second by a hair with a time of 41:04. Laughing, Macy said he was doing well, and “ran as fast
From left, KC Young running with Apache, Andrew Knutsen and Hershey and John Vincent tethered to Crazy Horse jog to catch up with the pack of burros and racers down FILE PHOTO BY SARA HERTWIG Miner Street in May 2018.
as I could with a donkey.” Coming in third place with a time of 46:17 was Rob Wright, and fourth was Tracy Loughlin with 46:18, similarly coming in after Wright by only a hair. Wright said that during the race he came off course, with Tracy helping him back on trail. The donkey did not like jumping over streams and logs he said, continuing that, “I totally got lost in the woods, then did the crappy thing of coming ahead [of Loughlin].” Loughlin was certainly pushing her burro, Mary-Margret, near the
end, while Wright’s pulled ahead him to the finish line. But Loughlin was in good spirits, saying it’s the best race she’s ever done, and she’s competed in about 10. For Teresa and Remus, two locals watching the starting line from the end of 17th Avenue, this was their first race. “We live here, but we’re always working,” they said. “We’d see them when they set up, but not where they actually go.”
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