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The Ox Race
« on: September 11, 2016, 21:02:29 »
I went to see an ox race a few weeks ago.
Every ten years the Burschenverein Steinkirchen holds an ox race.
This is rural Bavaria, as good as it gets ;-)
(A Burschenverein is an association of young guys who try to uphold tradition).

The oxen are trained for 2 years (they must be at least 2 years old), the riders can't have more than 70Kg.
There are long breaks between the individual runs.

Here are some impressions:

Not all ox like to run, so they need to some help...



Quite a few riders are female:



Looks like the girls like their ox:



After the ox race there was one round of cart racing.



The oxen where paraded around after the race was over.



80mm is sometimes a bit long...



The full set: http://images.afximages.com/Events/Ox-Race/n-dsrqkN

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Re: The Ox Race
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2016, 21:35:34 »
poor animals...
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Re: The Ox Race
« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2016, 00:21:22 »
Looks like a lot of fun, and great weather and colours.
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Re: The Ox Race
« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2016, 04:46:40 »
looks like a lot of fun ... for the humans
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Re: The Ox Race
« Reply #4 on: September 12, 2016, 05:09:07 »
Beautiful series Andreas. I really like first couple shots particularly. They have captured the essence of the race, the atmosphere, surroundings, everything. Thanks for sharing.
The race happens once in 10 years, wow!  :o

P.S: saw the other photos in the series, very nice!
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Re: The Ox Race
« Reply #5 on: September 12, 2016, 05:30:29 »
Andreas, Enjoyable series.  Nice light, crisp images with good colours.  Racing Oxen is a part of many Asian cultures but not in Goa.  We have illegal Bull Fights(Bulls fighting each other) but I normally give them a miss.
Thanks for sharing
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Re: The Ox Race
« Reply #6 on: September 12, 2016, 07:48:02 »
This is definitely miles better for the oxen then certain other forms of amusements.
And I think there are a quite a few images that show how close some ox/rider teams are.
I found it really scary that some of the support guys where barefoot...

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Re: The Ox Race
« Reply #7 on: September 12, 2016, 08:12:40 »
Andreas, ##2&3 are hilarious, well captured, despite the bright light of the day
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Re: The Ox Race
« Reply #8 on: September 12, 2016, 08:18:25 »
great set - the last 2 being my favourites :)
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Re: The Ox Race
« Reply #9 on: September 12, 2016, 09:55:17 »
Great series, Andreas.  The last one is a Bayern trademark I guess   ;) 

Love the contrast in the second one, with the electricity wires.
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Re: The Ox Race
« Reply #10 on: September 12, 2016, 10:46:21 »
my fav is no 1: a young girl and hunt for a drink drink brings every Ox to race
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Re: The Ox Race
« Reply #11 on: September 12, 2016, 13:15:13 »
Now that I have seen all 63 of them: definitely a Mordsgaudi!!!!

And as the Oxen will be eaten later anyway it seems not wrong to move them beforehand along the lines of tradition....
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Re: The Ox Race
« Reply #12 on: September 13, 2016, 07:36:22 »
Thanks guys!

Quote from: Frank Fremerey on September 12, 2016, 13:15:13
Now that I have seen all 63 of them: definitely a Mordsgaudi!!!!
Yup, Major Fun ;-)

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