A participant takes part in a high heel race to protest in favor of gender equality in Monterrey, Mexico on May 12, 2019. (Photo by Daniel Becerril/Reuters)

Britain Horse Racing, Royal Ascot, Ascot Racecourse on June 16, 2016. Ladies Day Racegoers wear hats. (Photo by Toby Melville/Reuters)

A farmer competes in a traditional bull race at Swabi on February 18, 2024. (Photo by Abdul Majeed/AFP Photo)

Horse Racing – Crabbie's Grand National Festival – Aintree Racecourse April 10, 2015: Racegoers react during the 17.15 Weatherbys Wealth Management Champion Standard Open National Hunt Flat Race. (Photo by Andrew Boyers/Reuters)

Participants jump into the water during the 114th edition of the Copa Nadal (Christmas Cup) swimming race in Barcelona's Port Vell on December 25, 2023. The traditional 200-meter Christmas swimming race gathered around 300 participants on Barcelona's Port Vell (old harbour). (Photo by Josep Lago/AFP Photo)

A competitor in the carting category of the Henrik Sečnik dog mushing race in Hraše, Slovenia on April 8, 2024. Over 100 dogs and their owners from Slovenia and abroad competed in the 10th edition of this international race. (Photo by Luka Dakskobler/SOPA Images/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

A police officer pepper sprays a protester as another protester stands in front of the race director's car during a farmers' protest who attempted to block the stage' s route, during the 16 th stage of the 105 th edition of the Tour de France cycling race, between Carcassonne and Bagneres- de- Luchon, southwestern France, on July 24, 2018. The race was halted for several minutes on July 24 after tear gas was used as protesting farmers attempted to block the route. (Photo by Stephane Mahe/Reuters)

Horse racing is part of Naadam, a festival organized every July in Mongolia to celebrate the People’s Revolution. Using children as jockeys in such races has a centuries-long tradition. Boys and girls as young as 5 (although the law imposes a minimum age limit of 7) ride in races that can be dangerous, with hundreds of horses running across the steppe at distances of 12 to 28 kilometres at great speeds. (Photo by Tomasz Gudzowaty)