Goat grabbing competition held in NW China's Xinjiang

A goat grabbing competition has been held in Yili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

Goat grabbing, or kok-boru, is a traditional Central Asian team sport played by herdsmen from the Kazak, Uzbek, Uyghur and Mongolian ethnic groups. Competitors try to grab a goat specimen from the ground while riding on horseback and pitch it across a goal line or into a target circle.