After more than a week spending 12 hours per day on horseback, one Idahoan finished what’s known as the world’s toughest horse race — and set a record doing it. Robert Long, of Boise, crossed the ...

Arthur Dobell is back to the day job having completed the Mongol Derby, although at the sales this week it was obvious he had not emerged from the event unscathed. The bloodstock agent, who has worked ...

A retired firefighter from Athens-Clarke County celebrated his newfound freedom, and lifelong love of horses, by competing in the toughest horse race in the world. At 57-years-old, Bishop resident ...

There is no mapped route and no path to follow. Participants are given coordinates to plug into a GPS device, and left to find their own way. On horseback. This is the concept behind the Mongol Derby, ...

The morning of her 38th birthday, Sarah Delia woke up with a headache. The day before, Delia was bucked off a semiwild Naadam racehorse. It bolted away, leaving her alone to wander the eerily quiet, ...

Michelle Tanaka is training for the upcoming Mongol Derby. Founded in 2008, the race is billed as the world's longest and toughest horse race. Riders are tasked with saddling several horses to travel ...

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 ...

Long's daughter, Briana Gordon, told KTVB her dad has spent a lot of time working with horses and riding Extreme Mountain Trails, but had never raced professionally before the Mongol Derby. "His quote ...

After more than a week spending 12 hours per day on horseback, one Idahoan finished what’s known as the world’s toughest horse race — and set a record doing it. Robert Long, of Boise, crossed the ...