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(8 Oct 2015) LEAD IN: Riding bareback through the Bahraini desert in the evening sun, getting together with friends after a long day at work, competing for prize money - donkey racing has it all. Weekly competitions held in Bar Saar are wildly popular with riders and spectators, although the donkeys themselves sometimes need a little encouraging. STORY-LINE: As the intense Bahraini sun begins to ease late on a Friday afternoon, pickup trucks start rolling onto a desert race track for an evening of fun and competition. The racers are farm donkeys - who are standing in the back of the trucks, many of them decorated with henna tattoos for the occasion. Their owners, mainly farmers and their sons, lead, push and cajole the animals out of the trucks. They then take the donkeys towards the desert race track, by a main road on the outskirts of Bar Saar. The rules are loose at these popular weekly donkey races. Anyone can enter a donkey, either with a rider or in the cart race. Boys and young men sit on the donkeys bareback (without saddles) and beat them with sticks as they ride. A spectator who wanders onto the track, gets knocked off his feet by a donkey racing by. Despite that upset, the spectators here are well used to being around these animals. Donkeys have long been central to running the farms in Bahrain and farm boys often grow up both caring for and working with the animals. Daoud Abu Salman, a farmer from Dumistan village, is delighted when his donkey 'Najma' wins the cart race. Salman describes the history of the event: "This race has been going for more than 20 or 22 years. Since we were kids, we used to come (to this race). But what was it? It was young people gathering, and each race people would put down 500 fils (fils: monetary unit equal to equal to 1/1000 of a dinar). One would put one dinar, some would donate a sack of bran." "Over the past 20 years, the guys, they did well. They improved it, little by little by little, until we reached the present. And, thank God, this is a gift from God." Salman takes a peek at his winnings. "I do not know, let's see. Two hundred dinars (529 USD). Thank God, it is a gift from God. It covers feeding her," he says. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...