An aloitador struggles with a wild horse at the curro (arena) during the Rapa Das Bestas (Shearing of the Beasts) traditional event in the Spanish northwestern village of Sabucedo, some 40 kms from Santiago de Compostela. The Rapa of Beasts, translated as animal Shearing, takes place on the first weekend of July for four days in Sebucedo, Spain. Hundreds of wild horses have been rounded up and wrestled to the ground for a hair-cu as part the tradition.

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