Qobylandy Batyr is the hero of one of the most ancient and widely sung of Kazakh heroic epics, a champion of the Qara-Qypshaq (Black Kipchak) people. The poem follows his birth to long-childless parents, his winning of the wise Qortqa, and his campaigns against the enemy khans Qazan and Alshagyr, defenders and raiders of the steppe frontier. Central to his fame is the tulpar Taiburyl, reared by Qortqa and celebrated in the epic's bravura account of its gallop, which covers in a single night a distance of many days. Rooted in the memory of Kipchak warfare, the cycle belongs to the core repertoire of the zhyrau and remains among the best-known of the batyrlar zhyry.