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A young jockey named Mohamad Salem sits on the floor of an examination room at Fatwaniya Hospital after falling from his camel during the third day of racing at the 3rd annual Kuwait Championship at the Kuwait Camel Racing Club. He only suffered…

At the starting line the camels always want to go and there are invariably several false starts. The jockeys on their backs cannot stop them. Men beat the camels on their necks with canes to push them back. After steadying the camels until the last…

Sheikh Ahmed Fahed Al Sabah, center, the Kuwait Minister of Information, talks with other VIP's in the club house during the opening day of the 3rd annual Kuwait Championship at the Kuwait Camel Racing Club. When there is racing the rich Kuwaitis…

A camel trainer offers a Kuwaiti dinar, about three U. S. dollars, to a pair of young jockeys. He wants them to ride his camels during the evening exercise period at Kuwait Camel Racing Club. Everyday, whether there is racing or not, dozens of…

When they are not working, the little Sudanese boys run in the sand outside the gates of the Kuwait Camel Racing Club, playing at their work. Each has a thin white leash around his wrist, dragging the attached riding switch through the sand. They…

A group of Sudanese camel jockeys scowl at foreigners entering their camp. The youths do not trust foreigners, especially Westerners... with cameras. A boy becomes a camel jockey in a straight forward way, people in the camel camps say - by getting…

Hamad Bin-Mubarak, a camel jockey from Oman, spends time with Gold, his favorite male camel in his camp at the Kuwait Camel Racing Club. He says he doesn't remember how long it has been since he started working for camel owner Ahmed Saeed, of Dubia.…

A young jockey battles towards the finish line during the opening day of the 3rd annual Kuwait Championship at the Kuwait Camel Racing Club. He carries a two-way radio in a pouch on his chest. Like all the jockeys he follows instruction radioed from…

Kuwaiti Ayad Al-Dhaferi, the chief trainer of his families camels, threatens a young jockey during the evening exercise period at Kuwait Camel Racing Club. Ayad was looking for a jockey to ride one last lap. 'Get in the car!' he yelled. 'I don't…

A pair of young jockeys named Halwan, left and Mohamed both from Sudan sit atop their camels at the start of the evening exercise period at the Kuwait Camel Racing Club. These boys are professional camel jockeys. They are the subject of complaints…