A popular equestrian sports game of the central Asian Turkic peoples: Kok-Boru/Ulak-Tartysh

Mehmet TÜRKMEN

In Kok-Boru (also known as Buzkashi, kokpar, and kupkari); the goat is slaughtered and the throat is cut off from the neck, the head is decapitated, the forelegs are cut off from the knees, the hind legs are cut off from the hock, the cannon bone is cut off, and the internal organs are gutted, and then stitched up from the belly with a strong band or cord (the carcass is sometimes steeped in salt water so that it will not break when the players pull it in). Buzkashi is a traditional equestrian game found only among the peoples of Central Asia and played with the carcasses of goats or calves. T ...Более