Inside Arabia’s camel contests: ‘Preparing my animals for a beauty pageant takes lots of time’ (msn.com)

Inside Arabia’s camel contests: ‘Preparing my animals for a beauty pageant takes lots of time’

In shaded compounds across the Arabian Peninsula, comely camels doze contentedly despite the 45°C heat while their doting handlers dream of the multimillion-pound prizes to be won at beauty pageants their camels will compete in in the coming cooler months.

Abdullah Said Al-Malki’s sprawling farm near the coastal city of Barka in Oman, 40 miles from the capital Muscat, is renowned for producing a series of pageant winners. His current stable of leggy supermodels are tall and blonde, with attitudes to match, that can earn hundreds of thousands of rials strutting the parade grounds of the Gulf states.

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