The Rapa das Bestas horse festival
Hundreds of wild horses are rounded up from the mountains of Sabucedo, north-western Spain, to be sheared and tagged during the 400-year-old Rapas das Bestas festival
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A villager shouts as he attempts to round up wild horses in Sabucedo, north-west Spain, during the 400-year-old Rapa das Bestas (shearing of the beasts) horse festival. Hundreds of wild horses are rounded up from the mountains, sheared and tagged
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Wild horses are led down a mountain near Sabucedo
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A foal runs as villagers try to round up wild horses through the hills of Sabucedo
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Wild horses gallop through the hills of Sabucedo
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Two wild horses fight in Sabucedo
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Two aloitadores (fighters) struggle to contain a wild horse
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Villagers attempt to round up wild horses in the hills of Sabucedo
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An aloitador tries to control a wild horse
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Wild horses fight during the Rapa Das Bestas festival
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Aloitadores try to tame a wild horse
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A horseman tries to control a wild horse
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One wild horse bites another
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A fighter grabs a wild horse
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