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The Mongolian members of the horse's eight-person entourage - dubbed Team Mongolia - turned up to the post-race press conference decked out in their "deel", the colourful national dress.

On the horizon, a dot of colour appears: a solitary figure astride a horse, cloaked in a brightly patterned Mongolian robe, the steppe stretching out around him. The image is Mongolian lore ...

Both as a reflection of Mongolia’s historical narrative and as a celebration of its cultural identity, the festival badly needs reform.

"I just had a gut feeling." Isaacson took his wife and son to Mongolia. "It's the oldest horse culture on the planet. Everyone still gets around on a horse there -- so a nomadic culture.