Friday, February 25, 2011

Tent Pegging in Pakistan

Today I would like to share a gorgeous postcard from Pakistan. It is a card showing the popular horse sport of "Tent Pegging". The photo on the postcard shows the display of tent-pegging at the National Horse and Cattle Show, Lahore.


As per Wikipedia, Tent Pegging is defined as, "Tent pegging (sometimes spelled "tentpegging" or "tent-pegging") is a cavalry sport of ancient origin, and is one of only ten equestrian disciplines officially recognised by the International Federation for Equestrian Sports. Used narrowly, the term refers to a specific mounted game with ground targets. More broadly, it refers to the entire class of mounted cavalry games involving edged weapons on horseback, for which the term "equestrian skill-at-arms" is also used."
You can read more about Tent-pegging here.

5 comments:

AndreiaG said...

wow! You are really a lucky person because you've so many beautiful postcards!
I've started my collection in December. I've got some already! If you want to see them: mypostcrossingexperience.blogspot.com

Best Wishes!

Aritha Vermeulen said...

Beautiful card!

Anonymous said...

I like this card! It's great!

Hanno.

჊Truus said...

Hello, You have great blogs with postcards and stamps, but I'm not swapping! Sorry greetings from Truus, I will follow you:~)

PAULO OLIVEIRA said...

I like this postcard too.
Ok. I hope help you in your Unesco Collection. Do you need what?
Send me your list by mail
Send me 3 postcards from Pakistan (with name country or city on front off). Thanks Paulo