Turkmenistan president holds horse beauty contest

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ASHGABAT: The horse-mad leader of Turkmenistan upon Sunday hosted his second presidential beauty contest for horses in a private Central Asian state.

President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov awarded "the most pleasing equine of a year" esteem to a racer stallion called Khan of a Eagles, which kick a nine alternative finalists embellished in traditional bridles.

The celebrity then pulled off his jacket as well as leapt onto a equine to float a victory circuit of a racecourse outward Ashgabat to cheers from a crowd.

The horse beauty contest falls upon a inhabitant holiday, a Day of a Turkmen Race Horse in a ex-Soviet state, which is home to an ancient multiply of horses called Akhal-Teke.

In a run-up to a holiday, state newspaper Neutral Turkmenistan published every day poems for a week upon its front page singing a praises of a president's favourite horses, illustrated with colour photographs.

Berdymukhamedov, 54, has created a book about horses which was published in a print-run of most thousands as well as once posed upon his favourite steeds for a calendar.

The former dentist took over a leadership of a ener! gy-rich state in 2007 after a genocide of a individualist dictator Saparmurat Niyazov, who renamed months as well as days of a week in honour of himself as well as his family.

The new boss private a little of a trappings of which system of administration though has launched his own cult of celebrity as well as is known by a unaccepted title of a Protector.

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