A rider in traditional attire performs at the “Ageuma Shinji” (Rising Horse) festival in Kuwana city, Japan’s Mie prefecture. Photo: Twitter/@kuwana_City
In Japan, a horse’s death spurs calls for festival of ‘obvious’ animal abuse to be cancelled
- Rights activists have hit out at the annual ‘Rising Horse’ festival in Mie prefecture after a former racehorse broke its leg and was put down
- The two-day event sees the animals forced to run up a steep hill and clear a two-metre high ‘wall’ while being yelled at and thrashed by spectators
A rider in traditional attire performs at the “Ageuma Shinji” (Rising Horse) festival in Kuwana city, Japan’s Mie prefecture. Photo: Twitter/@kuwana_City
