Advertisement Article continues below this ad To protect them, hours before the show starts, riders wrap their horses' tails in fire-resistant tape and braid their manes. Some apply a glaze on the ...
16, 2025. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez) A man braids the horse’s tail before a ritual in honor of Saint Anthony the Abbot, the patron saint of domestic animals, in San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain, ...
Las Luminarias has long attracted criticism for being brutal toward the animals involved. To protect them, hours before the show starts, riders wrap their horses' tails in fire-resistant tape and ...
To protect them, hours before the show starts, riders wrap their horses' tails in fire-resistant tape and braid their manes. Some apply a glaze on the animals' mane to prevent them from burning as ...
SAN BARTOLOME DE PINARES, Spain (AP) — On a chilly January night, hundreds of people gathered on the steep and narrow cobblestoned streets of San Bartolome de Pinares — population 500 — to ...
Anthony the Abbott, the patron saint of animals. Riders guide horses through bonfires lit in the middle of the street in an act believed to purify the animals in the coming year. The Idaho State ...