The wild donkeys, fabled to be direct descendants of the beasts of burden from the town's Gold Rush days, are raced and admired for three days. Participants run a half-mile race alongside the donkeys, overcoming obstacles while completing tasks."We came because we've never seen a donkey race," said Africa Alonso, who drove from Denver with her husband and two sons for the festival.The wild donkeys are loose in the summer and always have the right away, according to Clinton Cline, the president of the Two Mile High Club, the group that organizes the festival -now in its 87th year - and cares for the donkeys."We have a joke here that if you turn a corner and there's a person and a donkey in the street, you should hitRead more on Colorado Springs Gazette