Inside 400-year-old 'Shearing of the Beasts' where horses are wrestled to the ground
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dailystar.co.ukDaily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!Though more than 100 Spanish towns have made bullfighting illegal, the country still has a proud heritage of a quite different - yet still contentious - animal festival.The violent Shearing of the Beasts ('A Rapa Das Bestas') takes place each summer in Galicia, north-western Spain.Hundreds of fit tamers ('aloitadores') pack scores of young foals into a ring, where they leap onto them to bring them to submission and cut their hair.For many young men in Spain, bringing down a horse is a rite of passage dating back more than four centuries.The festival is even opened with sacred ritual prayers where priests wish for no harm to take place.The foals are packed in like sardines and must stay.
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