The Mongol Derby
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.
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70 year old cowboy Robert (Bob) Long from Boise, Idaho, won the 1,000km race on the 8th day of the race after changing horses 28 times. He is the oldest winner of the world's longest and toughest horse race.
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Robert Long, of Boise, won the Mongol Derby. 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.
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Robert Long, of Boise, rides a horse on the seventh day of the Mongol Derby in Mongolia. Long finished the race first, the oldest person to do so at the age of 70.
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