Essay On Camel Racing

Introduction

Camel racing is a popular sport in some countries like UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar, Oman, Australia etc. Professional camel racing is an event for betting and for tourist attraction. The camels runs in the speed of up to 65 km/h (18 m/s; 40 mph) in short running and camels can maintain a speed of 40 km/h (11 m/s; 25 mph) for an hour. Mainly the ordinary camel that is dromedary camels is used for the racing. But Racing camels are different from camels. They didn’t use for any other things. But physically it looks like a normal camel, no difference, they might not appear to have a physical difference, but can see the people who train them for racing. The camel animal is popular as the ship of the desert because of its walk, the walk of a camel is like the movements of ship in a waving see. The camel is most patience animal and they are very useful animal to human beings. Patience is one of its most observable features of it and generally camels are useful animal.

Pure Racing Camels are when they are about two years old they put their first step to racing that is

It was originally developed in a casual setting, at weddings or special festivals, but now tracks have been built throughout the country and in the season of winter from October to April race meetings are held. The annual camel race festival in AL Wathaba, that is popular in world-wide and attracts the entrance from all over the world.

Mainly there is two type of camels are being raced, which is the Omani and Sudania, these are differ in colour. The colour of Omani is very light and Sudania is like a brownish colour. Generally, the foods of racing camel are dates, honey, alfalfa, milk and seeds. The day before the race they are no allowed to drink and not allowed to eat for 12 hour were prevented from feeding for the 12 hour before to a race. seat on the camel the jockey sits behind the camel's