Off to the Races

This weekend was full of races: a horse race and a car race, both a first for me!

Thursday we went to the Emir's Sword Race, it was also hat day. I got there at 12:30pm with a group of ladies from AWA and saw 7 horse races, the first race was only female jockeys. It was fun to watch the women with their hats for the contest, the winner got a silver and diamond watch. The race was run on grass, which I had never heard of. At the end of all the races, the Emir came out to present the awards, ironically his horse won the big race.

Then on Friday we went to the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Middle East, the first time in Qatar. First we went to see them practice, then we left for dinner and came back for the 8:50pm race. Unlike the horse race, it was not crowded and I got a good spot for pictures. Also unlike the horse race the weather had cooled off a lot, but both days were very dusty with low visability.

Look for pictures of both on facebook.