Run For Fun - Racing Animals

Camel Racing

Camel racing is a popular professional and tourist attraction sports mainly in Arab countries like Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar and Jordan. This event is also held in Mongolia and Australia too. This racing involves lot of betting too so it is a great crowd puller event in the desert. In short sprints, camel usually run at speed up to 65 km/hour. The camels also maintain a speed of more than 40km/hour with good training. Child jockey are used to control the camels. A grand annual event is organized for Camel cup at Alice Spring in Australia.