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  • Barbed wire fencing for the camels auctioned after the judging.
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  • Thoroughbred horse auction at Fasig-Tipton, the oldest auction house in the United States. Horses are most often sold at public auction like this two-year old sale where horses often go for six figures—a bid spotter searches the crowd while a video showing the horse sprinting on the track along with the time is show on monitors above.
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  • A cattle auction facility in Nebraska.
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  • Keeneland Race track's Thoroughbred horse auction for two-year olds is where horses often sell for six figures. A bid spotter dressed in a tuxedo searches the crowd while a video showing the horse sprinting on the track along with the time is show on monitors above.
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  • The first Camel Beauty contest was in March of 2007 and this area was just a dusty piece of desert on the edge of the empty quarter.  About an hour outside of Abu Dhabi the Al Dhafra Festival put on by the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage is under the patronage of His Highness General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
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  • Families gather and pass time waiting for their camels to be judged.
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  • Camels are washed in preparation for the camel beauty contest.
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  • Camels are washed in preparation for the camel beauty contest.
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  • Camels are washed in preparation for the camel beauty contest.
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  • A curious baby camel.
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  • A hoist lifts a camel into a truck for his journey home.
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  • A family prays at sunset near the campfire at the contest compound.
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  • A female camel gently touches her owner.
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  • Hired trainers with their camels at the competition.
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  • Camels have help mating at the camel beauty contest compound.
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  • A trainer coaxes camels to the judging area by giving them a treat.
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  • At a camel competition, entrants sit around a campfire.
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  • Cars that will be prizes for winning camels line the parking area.
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  • A camel gently touches its owner.
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  • Cars and cash are the prizes for winning camels in the competition.
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  • A hoist lifts a camel into a truck for her journey home.
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  • A hoist lifts a camel into a truck for her journey home.
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  • A curious baby camel.
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  • A curious baby camel.
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  • Camels converge on Abu Dhabi for an annual beauty contest.
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  • Racing camels are exercised in the morning to stay in shape.
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  • Racing camels are exercised in the morning to stay in shape.
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  • Arriving for the camel contest in cars, trucks and by camel.
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  • A boy riding a baby camel.
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  • Camels are decorated with tassels for the annual beauty contest.
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  • Early morning at the annual camel beauty contest.
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  • Calves are used to lure camel mothers to the parade ground gate.
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  • Hired trainers with their camels at the competition.
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  • A family parades their camels for all their neighbors to admire.
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  • A covered woman photographs Sheik Tahnoon Bin Mohamed, Ruler of Alain.
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  • Ruler of Alain arrives at the suq area of the camel beauty contest.
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  • A hoist lifts a camel into a truck for his journey home.
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  • Hired trainers with their camels at the competition.
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  • A man leads a baby camel through the chaos of four wheel drive vehicles.
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  • Friends gather to socialize at a camel competition.
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  • Camels are decorated with tassels for a camel beauty contest.
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  • Camels are decorated with tassels for a camel beauty contest.
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  • A trainer controls camels preparing for a morning judging.
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  • At a camel competition, entrants sit around a campfire.
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  • Camels converge on Abu Dhabi for an annual beauty contest.
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  • Entrants arriving for the camel contest in cars and trucks.
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  • Calves are used to lure camel mothers to the parade ground gate.
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  • Camel parade grounds and judging pens.
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  • A camel is hoisted aloft for a massage to limber it for competition.
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  • Bedouin spectators overlook camel parade grounds and judging pens.
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  • Hired trainers with their camels at the camel beauty contest.
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  • Sandals are removed before entering tents.
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  • Camels are kept clean in preparation for the camel beauty contest.
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  • A curious camel.
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  • A camel is gently touched by its handler.
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  • A camel is gently touched by its handler.
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  • Camel's feet spread apart to keep them from sinking into the sand.
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  • Racing camels are exercised in the morning to stay in shape.
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  • Sunrise brings early competitors to the camel beauty contest.
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  • Sunrise brings early competitors to the camel beauty contest.
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  • A boy patting a prized camel.
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  • Camel's feet spread apart to keep them from sinking into the sand.
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  • Early morning fog at the camel beauty contest.
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  • A family parades their camels for all their neighbors to admire.
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  • Covered women photographers gather for a view of the Ruler of Alain.
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  • Calves are used to lure camel mothers to the parade grounds gate.
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  • A camel is given a massage to limber it for competition.
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  • Hired trainers with their camels at the competition.
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  • Hired trainers with their camels at the competition.
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  • At a camel competition, entrants sit around a campfire.
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  • Spectators overlook the camel parade grounds and judging pens.
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  • Bedouin spectators overlook camel parade grounds and judging pens.
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  • Dark and light camels line up for an annual beauty contest.
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  • Under the shelter of a tent, camel contest entrants eat lunch.
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  • Hired trainers with their camels at the competition.
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  • Handlers control camels during competition.
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  • At a camel competition, entrants sit around a campfire.
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  • Cars that will be prizes for winning camels line the parking area.
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  • A covered woman photographs Sheik Tahnoon Bin Mohamed, Ruler of Alain.
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  • A family parades their camels for all their neighbors to admire.
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  • Trainers at a camel contest watch over the valuable animals at night.
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  • Camels are washed in preparation for the contest and competition.
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  • Photographer, Melissa Farlow, at the annual camel beauty contest.
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  • A camel with oblong nostrils and drooping lips.
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  • A family parades their camels for all their neighbors to admire.
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  • Tents are set up, carpets laid on the sand and lavish food is shared.
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  • A trainer herds camels for a morning judging.
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  • Tents are set up, carpets laid on the sand and lavish food is shared.
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  • Men gather in the shade of a tent to socialize at a camel competition.
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  • Writer, Matthew Teague, at the camel beauty contest near Abu Dhabi.
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  • A camel with oblong nostrils and drooping lips.
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  • Men gather in the shade of a tent to socialize at a camel competition.
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  • Men gather in the shade of a tent to socialize at a camel competition.
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  • Men gather in the shade of a tent to socialize at a camel competition.
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  • The McCLean family anxiously watch bidding while selling colt at Keeneland auction. Hard work in breeding and raising foals and investment in a horse sometimes culminates in a minute of frantic bidding. The father and his two sons wait to see if their year of effort pays off.
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  • An adopted former wild horse now works the Wyoming range with a sheepherder and dogs.<br />
Dot, white mustang, was trained by prison inmates and then bought by rancher owners at a public auction. The docile horse earned his keep one week later when he saved the life of a shepherd who was lost in a blinding snow storm. The rider dropped the reins trusting the horse to find his way back home in spite of the blizzard.
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  • Dot, a former wild horse, patiently waits under a guard dog's watchful eye as a sheepherder checks on the animals in his care.<br />
After the mustang was trained by prison inmates, the horse was sold at auction. He earned respect the first week on the ranch in the Wyoming range when he found his way back to the corral in a blizzard saving the life of his mount.
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  • Wild horses are gentled and trained by prison inmates at the Warm Springs Correctional Center. After several weeks of handling, the horses are auctioned off to the public.
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  • Prison inmates ride wild horses at the Warm Springs Correctional Center creating a dusty, chaotic scene. They are training the mustangs to handle stress and to follow the riders directions in all situations. The horses are auctioned off to the public at the end of the training program. Wardens explain that the men and horses must learn to trust one another.
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  • A cowboy competes with his newly-trained wild horse in the Extreme Mustang Makeover. Thirty trainers were given unhandled young Bureau of Land Management horses and thirty days to prepare. Judges scored them on how well the horses performed certain tasks and an open program to show off more talents. Horses were auctioned off to the public following the event which featured mustangs strengths and trainability.
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