Equestrian Events

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4 festival article(s) returned for Equestrian Events

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Article Title: Galway Races - Where the Pint is the Unit of Currency!

Festival Name: Galway Races

Festival Country: Ireland

Festival Type(s): Sport - Equestrian, Party

Throughout Ireland people of all ages and occupations prepare for the Galway Races with a fervour that is almost religious in its intensity. Budgets are planned, holidays are arranged and business is scheduled to conform with the sacrosanct dates of the annual week-long festival.

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Article Title: Volunteering in the Land of the Blue Sky

Festival Name: Naadam Festival

Festival Country: Mongolia

Festival Type(s): Sport - Equestrian, Traditional

Sun baked soil billowed around us, thrown up by hundreds of horses' hooves. As I stepped back to avoid the nomads streaming past on their stocky mounts I could feel dust particles grinding between my teeth and sticking to my skin. It had been less than two weeks since I had left the British Isles with a group of nine other volunteers to take part in a work and travel scheme in Mongolia working for the Mongolian Youth Development Centre (MYDC) for the summer, but we had been lucky enough to be given a couple of days off for the national Naadam Festival.

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Article Title: The Last Rodeo

Festival Name: National Finals Rodeo

Festival Country: USA

Festival Type(s): Sport - Extreme, Sport - Equestrian

Although rodeo has been around almost as long as dirt, the National Finals Rodeo (NFR) has a more recent history. The first National Finals Rodeo was held at the Dallas State Fair Grounds in 1959, and since then, has undergone some interesting changes.

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Article Title: Siena Palio

Festival Name: Siena Palio

Festival Country: Italy

Festival Type(s): Sport - Equestrian, Sport - Bizarre, Traditional

It was Palio, the biggest event in a Sienese year. When the local contrada's (districts) take to the track with their finest horses and race for a coveted silk banner. When horses become Gods, passions are high and the square fills with the excitement of a race for glory.

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