The Camel Race Day at Hole Park Rolvenden, Kent, UK on 7th September 2014 was a great success. In superlative weather, almost 5,000 people attended the event and witnessed Mongolian wrestling, throat singing and a musical programme by the group, “Nomadic Tune”. A display by “War” Camel, a life-size camel puppet designed by one of the designers of War Horse and built by sculptress, Louise Thomas, delighted the onlookers. So much so that it was called on to make a second appearance. The Mongolian Ambassador, to the United Kingdom attended together with many officials from the Mongolian Embassy.
Six races were undertaken on Joseph’s Amazing Camels, a mixture of Dromedaries and Bactrians, and were all keenly contested. No one fell off and the large crowd thoroughly enjoyed the spectacle. All the funds raised will be put toward buying hay for the captive wild camels at the Hunter Hall Wild Camel Breeding Centre in Mongolia, the only country apart from China where the wild camel is kept in captivity.
