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On Sunday, I went to the race track with another expat. I had asked Ali to ride Arwen straight to the track, and then Tom (who rides an ex race horse by the name Luke) and I took the longer detour through the Zinderien bush, which gives the best of both riding worlds…
It was the […]
I promised I’d take you back to the track at some point during the two week long horse racing event that is taking place in Zinder right now. Horses have arrived from all over Niger and the following weeks mark the end of this year’s official Nigerien racing season. After two weeks from now, the […]
Today is the Journée de la concorde, national holiday in Niger, and there will be great races at the track. I’m won’t be able to participate as I am going to field station this afternoon (and Ali won’t be able to participate either because he has a souna!), but I did go on Saturday and […]
When we came out from Maya’s house (which I blogged about last Saturday), Babaye, who is the horse trainer of Maya’s neighbor (a politician with a deeper interest in horse racing who has about twenty horses stationed the Zinder region), wanted us to come inside and see his boss’ latest addition. At first, I thought […]
We had planned this weekend to take Haruna to the race track, but when Saturday arrived, the races had been moved to Dogo. Seeing we were up for a little adventure, we decided to hit the roads (and what bad roads it was!) and go to Dogo and show Haruna some of the typical Nigerien […]
Yesterday afternoon when Anette and I passed by the track to take our girls for a round, we discovered that this weekend held an ambitious program at the Zinder track and that there were quite a few important guests there. On Saturday, we met with the governor of a large Nigerian state, and on Sunday, […]
Since it was Ramadan, there were a few races at the track (nothing big). Anette and I deciding to bring out the girls and let them parade the new racing saddle I bought with me in Sweden.
Arwen was first to go, and loved every inch of the track (as usual).
The biggest change this year was […]
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