Dubai Camel Racing Festival 2014 – A Showpiece Event
The thrilling Dubai Camel Racing Festival is an adrenaline-pumping event which is eagerly followed by its aficionados. The organisers of the event wish to popularise this exciting and attractive sport around the world.
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The Camel Racing Festival in Dubai is an exciting spectacle that always captures the imagination of the observer. The sight of many specially bred racing camels charging across a race track is a truly memorable scene that once experienced will never be forgotten.
Camel racing is an age-old sport which is a treasured part of the cultural heritage of the Arabian natives of the United Arab Emirates. In fact one of the objectives of the racing festival is to make the modern Emiratis familiar with this sport which was highly esteemed by their ancestors. The excitement and publicity generated by this exciting sport assure that this distinctive facet of the Emirati heritage will never be forgotten.
Although camels may not be as elegant or as aesthetically appealing as thoroughbred racehorses, they are capable of surprising speeds which often startle the observer. Racing camels are built for speed and sprinting is natural for these creatures.
In times past human jockeys piloted the camels but today the camels are directed by tiny robotic jockeys perched rather precariously on their humps. Camel racing is taken very seriously by its aficionados and many owners and breeders go to great lengths to produce a champion.
As the charging camels storm around the track they are accompanied by owners and enthusiasts who speed alongside the track in four wheel drive vehicles. These breeders and aficionados typically shout and gesture, spurring on the beasts to even greater efforts. Meanwhile the equally vociferous enthusiasts in the spectator areas create a din of their own.
The organisers not only wish to promote this sport in the Middle East, but endeavour to popularise it across the world. It is not surprising that this unique sporting event is gaining the interest of the wider public in different parts of the globe. The 2014 racing season is sure to be avidly followed by enthusiasts of all nationalities.
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