Friday, September 5, 2008

Ostrich and Camel Races

Tom and I took a drive up to Virginia City today to watch the first day of the annual camel and ostrich races. It was hilarious. The camels, and especially the ostriches, did not always want to run in the right direction. The ostrich races are complete chaos.

This video shows the first race where one bird gets loose from his chariot harness almost immediately, one runs the first half of the course quickly but doesn't want to make the turn, and the other requires a great deal of coaxing just to get going.



This video is of one of the camel races.

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