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=The Legless Mile=

The Legless Mile is the eleventh race run annually at the Orari race track during the Geraldine Races.

On the 26th November 2011 West Englander Greg Boland became the first non-New Zealander to officialy win the race.

Rules
The race is run between people on the Greg Prendergast bus.

Participants wear undies from the start but must take them off between the 1200m & the 600m marks.

Past Winners
Nev Prendergast has won the race on the most occasions with 8. Twiggers is the only other multiple winner with 4 wins. Greg Adlam, Philip Prendergast, William Murney, 2010 winner Jason Feutz & current champ Greg Boland are some of the runners to win one Legless Mile.

Disqualifications
Northern raider James Mularkey has past the finish line first on three occasions only to be disqualified afterwards. 2008 & 2009 for wearing illegal footwear & 2010 for taking his undies of at the 800m mark & putting them back on at the 600m instead of between the 1200m & 800m. During his victory speech, 2011 winner Greg Boland mentioned that the prejudice against northern runners had ended & dedicated his win to the now retired James Mularkey, who is now out to stud in Maynooth, Ireland.

Nev Prendergast was disquialified in 2011 for putting on his undies at the 800m mark & not the 600m. He later complained that he was unaware of any changes to the rules from the previous years.