The Rodeo Festival in Masbate is a sporting event and celebration of Philippine cowboy and cowgirl culture. Read more at straitstimes.com.
MASBATE CITY, Philippines – A honky-tonk twang echoes across a fairground as cowhands wrangle cattle inside a dirt-floored stadium. The scene would be typical in Texas, but this rodeo is happening about 8,000 miles away, on an island in the Philippines.
In the juego de toro event, or bull game, people chase about 30 cattle through cordoned-off streets, as those in Spain chase bulls through Pamplona. The rules say you can keep any cow you catch – as long as it’s with your bare hands. One of the toughest events is the carambola, in which teams of men or women restrain an unruly cow in the rodeo ring. By hand, of course.
One of them is Mr Justin Bareng, 26, who he rises at 4am most days to feed his diminutive mare before saddling up. With the US$100 he earns a month, he feeds his six children and sends his 19-year-old brother to high school.
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