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Upper Marlboro (United States) (AFP) - Guiding her brown mare around the arena at breakneck speed, 16-year-old Morissa Hall is extremely focused as she takes on the barrel racing course in the eastern US state of Maryland. The African American cowgirl deftly zig-zags around three barrels, showing off why she is considered -- against the sport's stereotypical whiteness and masculinity -- a rising rodeo star. "When I very first started, people used to stare at me because I was one of the only few cowgirls of color," Hall told AFP at the event, in which about 70 people are competing. Spectators w...
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Angola (United States) (AFP) - At the sprawling Louisiana prison known as "Angola," inmates clad in black and white stripes go toe-to-toe with horses and bulls at a unique rodeo event now in its 57th year. The rodeo, described on its website as the "wildest show in the south," features about a dozen events in which prisoners and professional cowboys compete under the watchful eyes of prison guards and the viewing public. Like a typical fair, children in attendance can take a ride on a merry-go-round or trot around on a horse, but this outdoor area is surrounded by barb-wired fence and watchtow...
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Bosler (United States) (AFP) - Jonn Beer's ashes rise in a cloud of dust from the saddle of a rodeo horse, the final journey for a young Wyoming cowboy killed by his addiction to opioids. Beer, who was just 29 when he died, was one of millions of Americans dependent on OxyContin, a prescription opiate first given to him after he hurt his knee falling off a horse. "They continued to prescribe them, until at some point, he had to have them," says his father, Don Beer. "Eventually it turned into where we are today, in honor of my son because he's gone." Horses were Jonn's life. "Some people are ...
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