STORY: The jockeys will compete with their camels in five races across a six-month period. The jockey with the most point collected overall will be crowned the season champion, and receive a cash ...

(CNN) — Straining every fiber to stay atop the 1,000 pound camel churning up sand two meters beneath her as it gallops at over 40 kilometers (24 miles) an hour, Taylor Dees is a long way from Texas.

A former University of Louisville equine business student is making history in a unique form of racing.Isabelle Leslie became the first American to both participate in and win at the C1 camel racing ...

ABU DHABI, 21 November (BelTA - Emirates News Agency) - Under the patronage of President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and the follow-up of His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al ...

The UAE has raised its medal tally to 18 at the 3rd Asian Youth Games, currently being held in the Kingdom of Bahrain until 31 October, with more than 5,000 young athletes from 45 nations ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Camel racing is a favorite sport in the Middle East that dates back centuries, but female jockeys — especially American females — are a rarity. Until now. It's not exactly ...

DUBAI, May 25 (Reuters) - Having led the world's first cloning of camels in 2009, Nisar Wani is now replicating a few dozen a year at a Dubai lab - a big business in the Gulf region where camels are ...

Indonesian athlete Mohammad Al Fathih Abdillah has become the first representative of Indonesia in the Middle East-originated ...

A rights group says Asian boys are still abused as jockeys in camel races in the United Arab Emirates, even though the practice has been banned. Anti-Slavery International says it has photographs ...