Mongol Horse Derby is the toughest and longest horse race in the world, 1000km. Chinggis Khaan created this race in 1224.

Qinghai Yushu Horse Racing Festival is a traditional festival that is held during the last week of July every year in Yushu, the Tibetan Qinghai Province. This Horse Race Festival is not only the main festival and tourist attraction, but also a living link to the traditions of the ancient Kingdom of Kham. Tibetans from all over the Kham region gather here for traditional sport, song, dance and fashion show competition.

The World Nomad Games is an incredible event that pays tribute to the nomadic lifestyle. There are displays of legendary horsemanship, archery and eagle hunting.

The Abrivado Festival celebrates the skill of stockmen and their Camargue horses in coastal France.

This book provides a unique insight into the enduring personal and cultural connection we have with horses; preserved and celebrated through festivals, fairs and traditions worldwide – a photographic celebration of the powerful bond that encapsulates our deep dependence and love for horses.

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Fantasia Morocco is a performance that is inspired from historical wartime attacks of the Berber, and the desert knights. Today, Fantasia is considered as a cultural art form and a form of martial art. Each region in Morocco has one or more fantasia groups called Serba, totalling thousands of horse riders nationwide.

On the Indonesian island of Sumba, Indonesia, the Pasola War Festival marks the start of the new planting season, and only begins on the arrival of multi-coloured sea worms, which only appear once a year for a couple of days. The quantity and colour of the worms is supposed to indicate the quality of the coming years harvest. It is an ancient fertility ritual in theory, but in practice it is a violent blood sport. Tribes from different villages, mount their ponies and carry long, sharpened wooden spears, the neighbouring tribes square off in mock war.

Festival of Tradition has been running since 1939, it’s the oldest gaucho celebration in Argentina. Every year it takes place on the weekend closest to the 10th of November, a historical date that corresponds to the birthday of the author and Argentine poet José Hernandez.

Luminarias Festival is a visually exciting tradition held in the small village of San Bartolome de Pinares, Northern Spain, horses are ridden through fires the night before the day that celebrates San Anton, the patron saint of animals. It is believed that by riding through smoke and fire, the animals will be purifies and protected for the coming year.

Rapa Das Bestas is a festival that dates back to the early 18^th century. Wild ponies are rounded up on foot from mountains around Galicia. They are then caught by hand, vaccinated, wormed and micro-chipped. Sabucedo is the village where this tradition is most authentic. Historically the round up was to collect mane and tail hair from the ponies, which was made into brushes, mats and stuffed mattresses.  A few of the ponies were kept for consumption or farm work.