Dead Goat Polo

• Photographer
  Alain Schroeder
• Prizes
  Gold in Editorial/sports

Trying to outrun your opponents with a decapitated (headless) goat wedged between your leg and your horse, might not be your idea of a fun game, but in Kyrgyzstan, Kok Boru is the national sport.  Dead goat polo feels more to me like cavalier rugby. Organized in two teams of four, but sometimes many more, riders race from one end of the field to the other chasing the rider with the goat whose sole intention is to score a point by heaving the 30 kilo body into the Tai Kazan (goal) on either end. Only stallions are used as they are naturally anti-social and eager to fight off rivals. 

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