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Suicide Race
The Suicide Race, also promoted as the World Famous Suicide Race, is a horse race held every year, during the second week of August, in Omak, Washington as a part of the Omak Stampede, a rodeo. Held for more than 70 years, the race is known for the portion of the race where horses and riders run down Suicide Hill, a 62-degree slope that runs for to the Okanogan River.〔Nick Timiraos, (The Race Where Horses Die ), ''The Wall Street Journal'', August 11, 2007.〕 Though the race was inspired by Indian endurance races, the actual Omak race was the 1935 brainchild of a local Omak business owner. The race has provoked serious concerns among animal welfare and animals rights groups.
==Description==
The course starts at the top of Suicide Hill, where riders have to get their horses up to full speed before charging down the hill and into the river where they swim across to the other side, then sprint a last to the rodeo arena where the crowd waits.〔Jean Johnson, (Colville's Keller Mountain tradition turns to 'Suicide Race' ), ''Indian Country Today'', September 7, 2004.〕 In August the river is often low enough for the horses to run across. Most riders wear helmets, and all are required to wear life jackets.〔 Horses and riders have to pass three tests to demonstrate their ability to run in the race and navigate the river: there is an initial veterinarian exam to make sure the horse is physically healthy, a swim test to ensure horses can cross the river, and the hill test where riders ride their horses off the hill at a controlled speed to prove that the animals won't give way to fear at the brink, which can cause a dangerous pile-up.〔
The riders consist of both cowboys and Indians. In particular, members of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, whose reservation includes East Omak and the rodeo grounds, view the race as remniscent of their traditions as horse warriors.〔
Many Tribal participants view the race as spiritual and a cultural-preservation administrator for the tribes has stated that it is the "ultimate demonstration of the rider's ability to become one with the horse."〔 Riders who embrace the spiritual elements of the race pray in sweat lodges and place sacred eagle feathers on their horses.〔
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