She continued, “Mongol horses are semi-wild. In the West horses are treated more like pets. But here, herders will have maybe 200 horses. Of course, they don’t ride them all every day.

The Mongol Empire, once the largest contiguous empire in history, was a force that reshaped the world. From the leadership of ...

Forty-six semi-feral horses blasted across the starting line, their hooves hitting Mongolian ground on the same path Genghis Khan blazed in the 13th century on the way to ultimately creating ...

The most famous horse-based postal relay came with the rise of the great Mongol Empire in the 13th century, which created a system of postal outposts spanning a distance of roughly 60,000 km ...

The Mongol Derby website puts it this way: “Mongolian horses were the intercontinental ballistic missiles of the 13th century. They carried the all-conquering Mongol warriors across half the world.

The book tracks Prior-Palmer’s experience in the Mongol Derby, an annual 620-mile adventure horse race that traces the route of Genghis Khan’s horse messengers across the Mongolian steppe.

Mongol Derby is ‘world’s longest horse race.’ A 70-year-old Boise man just won it. Thu., Aug. 29, 2019 Robert Long, of Boise, rides a horse on the seventh day of the Mongol Derby in Mongolia.

The horse race takes riders 1000 kilometers across the Mongolian Steppe, and Long was a frontrunner for much of the derby before finishing in first place on Aug. 14, 2019.