Mount Hope Stables and Ranch : Foundation Appaloosas

Mount Hope Stables and Ranch : Foundation Appaloosas Appaloosa breeder located in south central KY. For love of the breed and it’s continued success

Received our Ranger Bred news from Colorado Ranger Horse Association. We truly appreciate the article for Sovo. We sure ...
08/10/2025

Received our Ranger Bred news from Colorado Ranger Horse Association. We truly appreciate the article for Sovo. We sure miss this boy. Not a day goes by that we don’t look for him in the pasture 💔

This beautiful blue eyed girl is on her way to her new home in Florida. Looking forward to watching her with her new own...
07/30/2025

This beautiful blue eyed girl is on her way to her new home in Florida. Looking forward to watching her with her new owner and definitely looking forward to that Chaos baby she is carrying for next year ❤️

This big yearling doesn’t know how special she is to us ❤️
07/30/2025

This big yearling doesn’t know how special she is to us ❤️

Irish in school days standing tied, picking up feet and looking pretty Heather Pudil
07/30/2025

Irish in school days standing tied, picking up feet and looking pretty Heather Pudil

Heather Pudil , sweet Ohana ❤️ (among others and Sansa getting loving)
07/30/2025

Heather Pudil , sweet Ohana ❤️ (among others and Sansa getting loving)

She is starting to get the coloring of her dam. Ignore the dirt. So hot here, they are all hot and sweaty. But she still...
07/30/2025

She is starting to get the coloring of her dam. Ignore the dirt. So hot here, they are all hot and sweaty. But she still looks stunning

Love the sky in this picture I took of Legacy
07/28/2025

Love the sky in this picture I took of Legacy

“Slinky” and “Buddy”
07/18/2025

“Slinky” and “Buddy”

Loving the new fencing. Did this and a lot more in TWO days
07/14/2025

Loving the new fencing. Did this and a lot more in TWO days

07/12/2025

In 2019, headlines quietly whispered something extraordinary.
But out on the Mongolian steppe, the wind was screaming it.

This wasn’t a movie.
There were no stunt doubles, no warm beds, no camera crew.
Just one man… 70 years old… and 1,000 kilometers of unforgiving terrain.

Robert “Bob” Long wasn’t what you’d call a jockey.
He was a cowboy.
From Idaho, by way of Wyoming.
He’d spent his life in the saddle, fixing fences, doctoring cattle, riding rough trails that don’t make it onto Instagram.

But in the summer of 2019, Bob did something no one else had ever done.
He entered the Mongol Derby—the longest, toughest horse race on Earth.
And he won it.
Seven and a half days.
620 miles.
Across rivers, mountains, deserts, and an endless sea of grass.
Trading semi-wild horses every 40 kilometers, just like Genghis Khan’s messengers did 800 years ago.

He was up against 41 riders from 12 countries—many decades younger, trained by elite endurance coaches.
Bob? He rode 60-mile days on Arizona trails, trained colts in Idaho, and listened to old winners.
And then he just… went.
With a GPS in one hand and grit in the other.
No glamor. No drama. Just focus.

And when he crossed that finish line—first, at 70—he smiled.
Then took a swig of fermented mare’s milk, as tradition demands.

Because Bob Long didn’t chase glory.
He earned it.
One mile, one horse, one relentless day at a time.

They said he was too old.
They said the Mongol Derby chews up Olympians and spits out Navy SEALs.
They didn’t say anything after Bob rode past them.

07/11/2025

Words can not express how excited we are to know that we will have two Ghostdance Sovo babies arriving in 2026.. Feeling Blessed!

May be a baby in there 😊
07/06/2025

May be a baby in there 😊

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Pinetop Road
Columbia, KY
42728

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