Bandi Chhor Divas, a Sikh celebration, commemorates the freeing of ancient gurus and kings from a prison. The holiday is marked by fireworks, colorful lights, feasts, food, music and family gatherings. Each year the celebrations include demonstrations by Sikh warrior on horseback. Carrying weapons, they race at high speed and display their skill at picking up objects, or stand up on one or more galloping horses.
Imagine spending twelve hours on horseback traversing some of the roughest terrain on earth, through largely uninhabited lands. That’s exactly what most of the participants in the Mongol Derby do. The race, which is meant to repli ...
Bandi Chhor Divas, a Sikh celebration, commemorates the freeing of ancient gurus and kings from a prison. The holiday is marked by fireworks, colorful lights, feasts, food, music and family gatherings. Each year the celebrations i ...
Bush racing is common in many areas. These races take place in remote countryside spaces were an impromptu track is set up, and spectators stand on the sidelines, separated by a small rope, if that. One such race takes place in a ...
Filipe Masetti Leite recently ended an eight year journey across North and South America, ending his ride as the 2020 Calgary Stampede in Alberta was supposed to begin. The filmmaker and journalist has become a long rider and has ...
To bring awareness to the plight of wild horses, and to encourage their adoption, a Nevada woman is riding her horse 550 miles across the desert. She plans to cover the distance in short spans, camping and staying over at ranches, ...
600km is 372 miles, and a substantial distance to ride no matter how you measure it. But, it’s a yearly trek for Jane Dotchin, who made her first trek in 1972. Now, 40 years later at the age of 80, riding her quiet horse Diamond a ...
A fifteen-year journey to the Rio Olympics took an unexpected turn for a Dutch dressage rider and her horse Parzival. Adelinde Cornelissen was faced with what might have been a difficult decision for some. She turned her back on t ...
Tenerife is part of the Canary Islands off the coast of Spain and is a popular tourist destination. Unfortunately, the horses of Tenerife rarely benefit from this thriving industry and many are neglected, unhealthy and malnourishe ...
The first full week of October saw a new roster of top PonyBox horses and high jumpers with a Black Forest mare challenging the Thoroughbreds usually seen in the top ranks. ...
600km is 372 miles, and a substantial distance to ride no matter how you measure it. But, it’s a yearly trek for Jane Dotchin, who made her first trek in 1972. Now, 40 years later at the age of 80, riding her quiet horse Diamond a ...
If you are bitten by the travel bug and are anxious to get out exploring Iceland will be on your bucket list. Horseback riding tours are quite popular and feature hardy Icelandic horses. This equestrian travel vlog explores the gr ...
There is a new name at the top of the highest winning search page. * Cavalier * as a 16-year-old, had earned 35,791,405 PB putting former top earner ! Corrupted Devil into the penultimate spot with 34,683,100 PB and dropping * Inf ...
The Wizard of Paws is a reality tv show that features creator Derrick Campana, who makes prosthetic limbs for rescued animals. An older mare in Paro, Bhutan named Yusi lost her leg and had lived unable to properly walk for a year, ...
Why are twin horses so rare? Why do mares rarely carry twins successfully? Video of twin foals born to a Belgian mare in 2014 went viral shortly after it was posted. Years later people are still checking back on the incredibly rar ...
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