Pasir Puteh Race

Last Saturday,
I went to Pasir Puteh in Kelantan to see a horse race. It was not a horse race where the rich people go and people placing their bets. It was a horse race held in the village where the people who own horses in Kelantan bring their horses to show off what their horses can do. The presents for the winners were just hampers, stand fans and bicycle. I didn't plan to go to Kelantan last weekend since I have to study for my SPM next week but my father asked me to accompany him because he didn't want to be alone when driving to Kelantan. The horse race are held many times in Kelantan at many different places. So this race was not so grand because the track was too small. I watched horse race at Tanah Merah and Pengkalan Chepa last time, the horse track was wide and very big.

In Kelantan, no one watch horse race at the equestrian club and the equestrian club is not popular because most people keep their horses at their homes, not at the club. There's one equestrian club located at Gunong that I have been to. Most of the horses there are Arab horses. My sister had been there to ride horses and she knows the people there. But horses that are kept there are well taken care of. The horses there are also cultured and follow the riders instruction. They do not move around when we put the saddle and the bridle on.

OK, actually I want to show you guys how do horse race look like in the village in Kelantan. But this race only allowed 3 horses to race at one time because of the small track space.




I'm not sure the video above is working or not because I tried playing it but it doesn't work.
Nevermind, continue with my other story, if you see at the left of this blog, you can see a pony named Apple. Well, we already sold that horse for a very low price because we wanted to get rid of her. Apple has a very bad attitude and bad behavior that is very hard to train her. We sold Apple to someone that we know, then when we are at the horse track, we could not believe he put Apple in this horse race too. Apple had won 2nd place since there were only two horses were racing. But the owner still get a consolation prize because of participating in the race.

Apple getting ready in a race.

There were also veterans who joined the race and some of them fell off the horseback and badly injured. An ambulance came after that and brought him to hospital. I missed the event because we went back early because of the rain and we heard this story from my father's friend.

One of the veterans who took part.

When it was raining, the event was not postponed but it was continued. Look at the video.

We did not stay at the horse track for long, we just went there for half an hour and went back. Here are some pictures.

That's all I would like to show you. Sorry if the video is not working.