Oops! I admit that I had forgotten all about the Day of the Race Horse in Turkmenistan. This commercial message from the Philippines has reminded me of it.
It’s still a national holiday there on the last weekend of April, but there doesn’t seem to have been anything published about the 2016 celebrations. The most recent article that I can find is this in The Guardian from last November, written about Turkmenistan’s April 2015 celebrations. It has lots of nice photographs.
And The Guardian ran a story in May 2015 about President Berdymukhamedov erecting a giant golden statue of himself astride a horse, “by popular demand”, just after the 2015 celebrations. “Cast in bronze and covered in 24-carat gold leaf, the statue of Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov soars over 20 metres from the ground and is perched on an outcrop of white marble cliff.” If any furry fans visit Ashkabat, will they send us some photographs of it?
Oops! I admit that I had forgotten all about the Day of the Race Horse in Turkmenistan. This commercial message from the Philippines has reminded me of it.
It’s still a national holiday there on the last weekend of April, but there doesn’t seem to have been anything published about the 2016 celebrations. The most recent article that I can find is this in The Guardian from last November, written about Turkmenistan’s April 2015 celebrations. It has lots of nice photographs.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/22/turkmenistan-horses-akhal-teke-bre...
And The Guardian ran a story in May 2015 about President Berdymukhamedov erecting a giant golden statue of himself astride a horse, “by popular demand”, just after the 2015 celebrations. “Cast in bronze and covered in 24-carat gold leaf, the statue of Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov soars over 20 metres from the ground and is perched on an outcrop of white marble cliff.” If any furry fans visit Ashkabat, will they send us some photographs of it?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/25/horse-turkmenistan-president-statu...
Fred Patten