Take an intimate verité visit to a fascinating and little-known world: the dangerous and high-stakes game ... Jockeys bareback gallop their horses around a track, jumping off one and on to ...

Many responses blasted the way the horses were forced to run up a steep slope and jump over the high wall. The prefectural government also received about 1,000 complaints about the festival from ...

Traditionally, horseback riders in the Ageuma Shinji (Horse jumping festival) at Tado Taisha shrine here get their animals to leap over an earthen wall about 2 meters high after reaching the top ...