#banei

[starmotte]

Well I may as well post SOME original content here, yeah?

This is Banei, one of the characters in my original story I'm working on. She's got vitiligo, aaand is a bounty hunter!

[intothewildy]

Rainy day. Banei horse racing at Obihiro - the only draft horse racing where the horses need to drag a one-tonne cart each up two ramps and finish first to win. 🐴🐴🐴 . . . #banei #obihiro #hokkaido #visitjapan #jp #jpn #instatravel #horseracing #latergram #instatrip #wanderer #rainy #city (at 帯広競馬場) https://www.instagram.com/p/B33KTaIAVgM/?igshid=1bfgtt2x141ln

[mad-hare]

BANEI Horse racing 2006 OCT by tabineko

racing draft horses with heavy weights attached up and down hills is simultaneously boring and thrilling, believe it or not

[monakapapa]

ばんえい競馬のデモンストレーションレース。 #banei #obihiro #ばんえい競馬 #ばんえい十勝

[hugtlang]

~Photographer of this photo is me.~

Ban’ei Racecourse.

Ban'ei is a form of horse racing, unique to the Tokachi area of Hokkaido, Japan. Powerfully-built horses compete by pulling heavily-weighted sleds up sand ramps while being urged on by jockeys sitting on top of the sleds. The horses used in the races are Percheron, Breton, and Belgian breeds. Formerly held in a number of places, ban'ei races are now only held at the Obihiro Racecourse. Former racehorses are usually sold for meat rather than put out to pasture until old age.

*The official site is here. *Official site of Obihiro.