Racing Flicka

Hello all,

Last week on Friday I entered my horse for a race at Pengakalan Chepa, Kelantan. Its my black horse named Flicka. She is a mare and now she is 5 years old. It was her first time participating in a race. It was not a grand race like Kentucky Derby or race in Penang Turf Club, it was a low cost kind of race organized by a few people. There is no betting and gambling. Just pay for the competition and race. If the horse wins, we got a small prize. But it was fun and exciting.

So this is how the race in here works. There is no barrel (place where the horse is put into at the starting line for the real race) so each person has to hold the horse at the starting line. When the whistle blows, the horses start running. The jockeys in here don't use saddle (its a seat mount on a horseback where the rider sit on it) and it became extremely difficult to balance on top of the horse. They want the horse to go maximum speed and they have to reduce the load on the horse by not using saddle.

Theres more I want to tell about the race but I don't want to waste my time. Now I'm just going to talk about my horse Flicka. I was not the rider, we get a jockey to ride her and its a surprise that she got second place out of 5 horses. And this is her first time racing. We did not gave her any special food or supplements to her before the race, we just gave her normal food. I am really proud of her and she looks relax after the race. Our jockey told us that he did not even whipped her because he thought she was injured. But actually shes not injured. So we got a small price for getting second. Don't expect a $16,000 price because I already told you this is a small race, a village race. It is fun to watch horse race here in Kelantan. Its different from the normal race we saw on TV which is really proper, fair and accurate race. Okay, I show some pictures. Sorry I can't upload the video of the race, maybe later cause now I had slow connection.

Her temporary stable at the race.

Getting ready for the race.

Flicka.

One of her competitor.

This is what we won for the second prize. We did not join the race for the price, we join for the fun of it.

First price got a bigger bike. But only two wheels. At least the second price got four wheels.

Well this blog is not only talk about horses, but recently I just happened to post stuff all about horses. Actually I use this blog to post anything, not only horses. Okay that's all, bye!