Kok-boru is a popular horse game in Kyrgyzstan in which two teams of riders try to carry a goat or calf carcass into the opposing teams endzone. © Igor Kovalenko ...

In Kyrgyzstan, angry spectators stormed the field and threw stones after a kok-boru game. By Victor Mather Frequently, spectators are angry with the refereeing at a game. Once in a while, that anger ...

In a melee of hooves and hands, a scrum of horseriders on the plains of Central Asia wrestle to get control of the ball -- or in this case the carcass of a freshly-slaughtered goat. After several ...

From August 13 to 20, Kyrgyzstan hosted the first ever World Cup among kok-boru clubs from Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia, the USA, Uzbekistan, and Afghanistan. The tournament brought together over 20 ...

Prince William and Harry might love a game of polo, but this this version might get their goat — because it’s played with a dead animal. This Sport of Kings, known as “Kok Boru,” is very similar to ...

ASTANA, Kazakhstan -- Ladd Howell had his head in his hands and appeared inconsolable. Competing in its fourth World Nomad Games in Astana this week, the U.S. national team he captains had just come ...

Riders compete during a kok boru, also called ulak tartysh, a traditional game in which players on horseback manoeuvre with a goat's carcass and score by putting it into the opponents' goal outside ...

With their national team having won the World Cup no fewer than five times, Brazil has grown accustomed to thinking of football's most important trophy as their own treasured property, occasionally ...