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Photo Essay: A Day at the Races in Baghdad
By Joshua Keating
Page 1 of 11
Posted May 2009
Dictatorship, war, looting -- none of it can stop the twice-weekly horse races that are Baghdad’s best show in town.

And they’re off! With the security situation improving in Iraq, crowds are swelling for the twice-weekly races at the Baghdad Equestrian Club, located in a tough Sunni area of the city.

Photo: MUHANNAD FALAAH/Getty Images


Joshua Keating is deputy Web editor at FP.
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