In Australia we have Cane Toad races.--- Cockroach races,--- Camel races.---Crab races,---pig races.---cray fish races,---.billy cart races, (The old home made down hill type plus the pulled by a billy goat type) Dunny races ( a outdoor toilet with wheels complete with a live occupant dragged by two men) bed races (hopital beds complete with "patient" pushed pulled shoved by nurses)
We have cow pat (dry cow dung) throwing. --- thong throwing--- pumpkin rolling,--- tyre rolling ( tractor tyre rolled by big burly men end over not along the tread) hay bale loading( a truck is loaded with hay bales by hand in shortest time) Cooee calling ( the cry coooooee is used in scrub to find/ or by someone lost ) --- Stockwhip cracking. There are more that escape me at the moment. Mostly these are used as fund raising for charity organisations.
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We have the Todd river races in Alice Springs central Australia. There is hardly EVER water in the Todd so the local wags build a "boat" without a bottom and men and/or women stand in the "boat" and run along the Todd River sand.
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