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Beryl Markham

Beryl Markham was born in England and moved to Kenya as a small child. Beryl grew up with native children and wild animals as her closest friends. Her father raised racehorses on their farm and Beryl learned these skills from him. Beryl delivered a colt alone when she was seventeen and her father gave her possession of the horse, Pegasus; the first horse she ever owned. When her father's farm went into bankruptcy a few years later, Beryl took Pegasus and began her own horse training business.

Beryl took on a horse with previous injuries to her tendons and trained her well enough that she won a prestigious horse race in Africa against a stronger, faster horse that Beryl had also trained. Shortly after this, Beryl met with an acquaintance, Tom Black, and began lessons to get her pilot's license. Beryl was one of the first women to get a...
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