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

Chasing Dreams: The True Story of the Youngest Female Tevis Cup Champion is the incredible, action-packed memoir of Sanoma Blakeley's 2019 Tevis Cup championship, won while riding her beloved horse Goober, and the tale of how she became the youngest woman to ever become a Tevis Cup champion. Beginning her endurance riding career at the age of seven, Blakeley writes about the years of training and teamwork required to win the most challenging and famous 100-mile horse race in the world aboard a horse she had originally acquired for free off of Craigslist.

About the author

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.

Summary

The Thrilling and Emotional Memoir from Endurance Horse Racing Legend Sanoma Blakeley

Chasing Dreams: The True Story of the Youngest Female Tevis Cup Champion is the incredible, action-packed memoir of Sanoma Blakeley’s 2019 Tevis Cup championship, won while riding her beloved horse Goober, and the tale of how she became the youngest woman to ever become a Tevis Cup champion. Beginning her endurance riding career at the age of seven, Blakeley writes about the years of training and teamwork required to win the most challenging and famous 100-mile horse race in the world aboard a horse she had originally acquired for free off of Craigslist.

Blakeley places readers on the ride with her so that they can experience the thrill of the most exciting horse endurance race in existence. Blakeley and Goober survive narrow mountain trails winding through the Sierra-Nevadas, containing over 19,000 feet of elevation gain; three steep, grueling canyons; crossing the shoulder-high American River; riding at night with only the light of the moon to guide them; temperatures that soared over 115 degrees; and, most excitingly, the final neck-and-neck sprint to the finish against a four-time Tevis Cup champion and world class competitor after 100 miles of some of the most rugged mountain trails in the world.
When Blakeley and Goober cross the finish line just a few feet ahead of their competition and Blakeley becomes the youngest woman in history to win the Tevis Cup, a lifetime of hard work that began when the author started training as a small child and who had long dreamed of winning the Tevis Cup was finally rewarded. Chasing Dreams contains action, heartwarming twists, and an epic ending that will leave readers in tears.

Foreword

Publicity will be focused on traditional industry outlets, including Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Booklist, Kirkus, Bookpage, Shelf Awareness, etc.

Publicity and marketing efforts to the general consumer trade will target equestrian outlets such as Equestrian magazine, Cowgirl magazine, Horse Nation magazine and Eventing USA, as well as traditional print media for book reviews.

We will do our best to secure noteworthy endorsements, as well as a foreword from a well-known equestrian and/or celebrity.

Sanoma has endorsements from Purina. They have 1.9 million followers on Facebook and will help promote the book.

The Blakeley Endurance Stables (Sanoma's parents) website receives over 50,000 views a month and the book will be promoted on the site.

Riding Warehouse is another one of Sanoma's sponsors. They have over 35,000 followers on Facebook and 27,000 on Instagram and they are big fans of Sanoma. 

Sanoma is also sponsored by Ottoman Arabians, who sell horses all over the world. They have agreed to help promote the book.

Sanoma blogs for Riding Warehouse, Arabian Horse Magazine, Endurance News, and the Tevis Forum, and will be promoting the book through her blog.
 

Here is a short list of some Facebook pages that will be helping to promote the book:
❖ Horse and Rider Magazine 541k followers on Facebook
❖ The Chronicles of the Horse 403k followers on Facebook
❖ The Horse Magazine 61k followers on Facebook
❖ Arabian Horse Association 104k followers on Facebook
❖ Western States Endurance Run almost 90k followers on Facebook
❖ Riding Warehouse has over 35k followers on Facebook
❖ Tevis Cup Facebook page has 28k followers on Facebook
❖ One of my friends and fellow horse trainers has 37k followers @a_sagebrush_cowgirl.  
❖ Another friend of mine has 67k followers on Instagram
❖ AERC has 26k Followers on Facebook
❖ Horse and Rider Books has 12k followers on Facebook
❖ FEI Endurance has over 9k followers on Facebook
❖ Endurance riders America 10k followers on Facebook
❖ Endurance World has almost 10k followers on Facebook

Here is a list of the media coverage Sanoma received when she won the Tevis Cup in 2019. We will be going back to all of these outlets for features and reviews for the book:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/24/us/18-year-old-tevis-cup-horse-race-craigslist-trnd/index.html

https://thehorse.com/177577/sanoma-blakeley-and-ra-ares-bay-win-2019-tevis-cup/

https://www.arabianhorselife.com/single-post/2019/10/08/tale-of-two-tevis-champions-sanoma-blakeley-ra-ares-bay

https://goldcountrymedia.com/news/148844/by-a-horses-length/

https://www.bendbulletin.com/outdoors/terrebonne-horseback-rider-wins-the-prestigious-100-mile-tevis-cup-endurance-ride/article_950b16ac-6d28-5749-aef4-3be9d604a37c.html

https://www.redmondspokesman.com/news/terrebonne-rider-celebrates-prestigious-title/article_81c4eee8-b112-56c2-b7ce-0398b31146eb.html

https://www.azfamily.com/news/us_world_news/an--year-old-woman-won-a--mile-endurance/image_10649c83-0eea-54ca-a901-c9cd71aeee6b.html

https://www.sierrasun.com/news/nearly-100-horses-reach-finish-at-64th-tevis-cup-18-year-old-takes-first-place/

https://endurancehorsepodcast.podbean.com/e/tevis-2019-part-one/

https://ihearthorses.com/18-year-old-rider-wins-tevis-cup-with-free-craigslist-horse/

https://issuu.com/arabianhorseworld/docs/1019-2019-tevis-cup

https://www.horsesinthemorning.com/tevis-recap-weird-news-stories-and-equestrian-first-world-problems-for-aug-19-2019-by-omega-alpha-equine-2/

https://outsiderein.com/small-town-spotlight-auburn-california/

https://horsespirit.site/2019/12/28/free-craigslist-horse-and-18-year-old-rider-win-the-toughest-competition/

https://www.facebook.com/KTVZ21/posts/10162083328270534

http://www.api-marketing.com/flip/tevis/forum2020/6/

https://blog.ridingwarehouse.com/threads/the-road-to-tevis-with-sanoma-blakeley.5818/

https://www.facebook.com/ridingwarehouse/posts/10159320867449390

https://www.facebook.com/KTVZ21/posts/10162083328270534

http://www.api-marketing.com/flip/tevis/forum2020/6/

https://blog.ridingwarehouse.com/threads/the-road-to-tevis-with-sanoma-blakeley.5818/

https://www.facebook.com/ridingwarehouse/posts/10159320867449390

 

Product details

• Authors: Blakeley Sanoma
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.07.2023
• EAN: 9781595801234
• ISBN: 978-1-59580-123-4
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 470 g
• Subjects: Guides > Nature > Horses, riding; NATURE / Animals / Horses, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports, SPORTS & RECREATION / Animal Sports / Horse Racing