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Jinetes Salteños
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Jineteada is a traditional equestrian sport in the gaucho culture, a demonstration of force and skill where the gaucho tries to keep himself for a specified time (8 to 14 seconds, depending on the category) on the back of an untamed horse, despite its bucking.
Is dangerous tradition held in rural areas. Sometimes he manages to do so and, on other occasions, he may suffer serious injuries, even die, as a result of tumbling off the untamed beast.
The jinetes does not dream of becoming a rock star, a football player or a TV celebrity; his dream is to become a professional horse rider, showing his skills in Argentina’s main stages and to be renowned and admired by his peers. I ask them if they are not afraid of getting hurt; they tell me: «fear, just as the horse, has to be tamed».
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Jineteada is a traditional equestrian sport in the gaucho culture, a demonstration of force and skill where the gaucho tries to keep himself for a specified time (8 to 14 seconds, depending on the category) on the back of an untamed horse, despite its bucking.
Is dangerous tradition held in rural areas. Sometimes he manages to do so and, on other occasions, he may suffer serious injuries, even die, as a result of tumbling off the untamed beast.
The jinetes does not dream of becoming a rock star, a football player or a TV celebrity; his dream is to become a professional horse rider, showing his skills in Argentina’s main stages and to be renowned and admired by his peers. I ask them if they are not afraid of getting hurt; they tell me: «fear, just as the horse, has to be tamed».
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