Mongolia’s child jockeys ready to race in annual festival
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July 14, 2026
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ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia (AFP) — Six-year-old Hurts Gantumur raced across the Mongolian grasslands astride a galloping horse, training to become a child jockey in the country’s biggest cultural festival.
His older brother Zolboo is 14 and is already too old to race at the annual Naadam festival, where only competitors between the ages of eight and 12 are eligible to be child jockeys.
“In training, the child and the horse become one,” Hurts’s father, who spent years rearing racehorses for Naadam and oversaw his son’s training, told AFP.
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