Wild horses are rounded up, trimmed and groomed in different villages in Spain's northwestern region of Galicia for the Rapa Das Bestas event every year on the first weekend of July. Rapa Das Bestas, ...

On the same weekend that Pamplona's Running of the Bulls began, another festival demonstrated Spain's controversial attitude to animal welfare. Aloitadores (fighters) struggle with a wild horse during ...

Wild horses are gathered during the Rapa Das Bestas event in the village of Sabucedo. Rapa das Bestas is the name of an activity that involves cutting the manes of the horses that are performing in ...

Horses gallop during the Rapa das Bestas traditional event in the Spanish northwestern village of Sabucedo July 5, 2014. On the first weekend of the month of July, hundreds of wild horses are rounded ...

Every year, the brutal Rapa das Bestas takes place in north-west Spain, in which the villagers of Sabucedo round up hundreds of wild horses to trim their manes Every year, on the first weekend in July ...

Mick Jagger sang in the The Rolling Stones' hit that wild horses couldn't drag him away. But these horses in Spain might have given him a run for his money, as this collection of spectacular images ...

A Spanish horse festival is getting more and more popular each year, say its organisers. The “Rapa das bestas” festival in Sabucedo dates back to the 15th century and is held every year in the first ...

Approximately 25,000 people were expected to attend the Rapa das Bestas (shearing of the beasts), a 400-year-old Spanish festival held between July 1 and 4. During the event hundreds of wild horses ...

RICKY Gervais has blasted a Spanish horse wrestling festival as “absolute filth”. The comedian took to Twitter to vent his disgust at footage of the Rapa das Bestas festival which sees wild horses ...