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Mongolia's child jockeys ready to race in annual festival
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Mongolia's child jockeys ready to race in annual festival
His older brother Zolboo is 14 and is already too old to race at the annual Naadam festival, where only competitors between the ages of eight and 12 are eligible to be child jockeys. "In training, the child and the horse become one," Hurts's father, who spent years rearing racehorses for Naadam and oversaw his son's training, told AFP. "That's how they succeed," he said as he watched his son speeding across the steppe. Children have long compete…
·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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"During training, the child and the horse are one. That's how they succeed," said AFP Gantumur, the boy's father. "He spent years raising horses for the Naadam, while supervising the formation of a...
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