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A Bew Class of Camel-Racing Women Breaking Ground in the Middle East
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Posted on 10/23/2024 5:05:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway

The camels at the start line growl and grunt before the gate goes up, then stretch out their long necks and gallop along the sandy track.

"Yah! Yah! Yah!" shouts one camel owner from a car parked alongside the racetrack, banging on the car door to urge on animal and jockey alike. Welcome to the event that has been dubbed the Grand Prix of camel racing in Taif, south-western Saudi Arabia, where camels race some 250 laps for prizes worth $13 million.

This camel festival, held in honour of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is now in its sixth year and is on par with the richest horse races worldwide. This year, some 21,000 camels are taking part.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Hobbies; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: camel; races; saudiarabia

1 posted on 10/23/2024 5:05:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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2 posted on 10/23/2024 5:05:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Isn’t this what the suffragettes fought for?


3 posted on 10/23/2024 5:06:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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4 posted on 10/23/2024 5:07:50 PM PDT by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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Give me an old-fashioned camel-racing woman, just like Mom!!


5 posted on 10/23/2024 5:08:30 PM PDT by I-ambush (From the brightest star comes the blackest hole. You had so much to offer, why didya offer your sou?)
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“You were awful hard on the camel last night, Ward.”


6 posted on 10/23/2024 5:09:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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Breaking ground only until they behead them if they lose


7 posted on 10/23/2024 5:09:46 PM PDT by jpp113
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Ya gotta admit, it'a a Bewtafull title.

It won't be long living that one down, short term memory being what it is on FR these days.

8 posted on 10/23/2024 5:11:52 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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9 posted on 10/23/2024 5:13:25 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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The NCRA is now being challenged by the WNCRA?


10 posted on 10/23/2024 5:17:02 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (there will come a day when FR rejects articles from the NYT, et al. as "Commie trash, no thank you")
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Hey, at least they let them ride astride - which is more than ‘proper society’ allowed in the West for a long time.


11 posted on 10/23/2024 5:22:43 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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12 posted on 10/23/2024 5:24:46 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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What is the length of a single lap???


13 posted on 10/23/2024 5:35:45 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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Do they get them to go faster by digging in their camel toes?
sorry, someone had to make that joke.


14 posted on 10/23/2024 6:24:30 PM PDT by Waverunner
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I met a camel once. He was a very sweet, placid soul.

(But I know someone who was spat upon by one overseas, and wound up positive for TB...)


15 posted on 10/23/2024 6:52:24 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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!!!!!


16 posted on 10/24/2024 12:43:26 AM PDT by A strike (death to taggers)
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