{"id":1366656,"date":"2022-03-09T09:16:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T14:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1366656"},"modified":"2022-03-09T09:16:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T14:16:16","slug":"comely-camel-pouts-its-way-to-record-beauty-prize-in-qatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/comely-camel-pouts-its-way-to-record-beauty-prize-in-qatar\/","title":{"rendered":"Comely Camel Pouts Its Way to Record Beauty Prize in Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcomely-camel-pouts-its-way-to-record-beauty-prize-in-qatar%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1366656&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\"><span class=\"t-location\">AL Shahania (Qatar) (AFP) \u2013\u00a0<\/span>The lips pouted to perfection, the neck was long and poised, and the judges were sure that no Botox was involved as they awarded Qatar\u2019s largest cash prize for a camel beauty contest in front of an enthusiastic crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of spectators, who poured into the isolated desert venue in Land Cruisers and Jeeps, threw up their scarves in celebration as the animal, named Mangiah Ghufran, was declared winner of the one million riyal ($275,000) top prize at the first Qatar Camel Festival late Tuesday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The animal paced nervously in the paddock as his owner Fahed Farj Algufrani collected the cheque and told how it had taken \u201cyears\u201d to prepare the prize-winning beast.<\/p>\n<p>Previous festivals were more local but now Qatar has allowed in camels from across the region, drawing breeders from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates with millions of dollars in prizes at stake.<\/p>\n<p>Organisers were on alert after a recent festival in Saudi Arabia, where 43 camels were disqualified after it was found they were given drug enhancements to make their lips droopier and their humps more shapely, according to official media.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWork was done to combat tampering, which is the use of Botox and fillers and other things,\u201d said Hamad Jaber Al-Athba, the chief festival organiser.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8061715\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2018\/01\/saudi-arabia-camels-festival-getty.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>To pick the winners, the judges look at \u201cthe size and beauty\u201d of the head, the length of the neck and and the position of the camel\u2019s hump. (FAYEZ NURELDINE\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe had a professional veterinary staff and advanced equipment and we worked to combat tampering and limit the spread of cosmetic materials,\u201d he told AFP. The camels are put through X-rays and other monitoring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCorruption was fought seriously at the Qatar Camel Festival.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To pick the winners, the judges look at \u201cthe size and beauty\u201d of the head, the length of the neck and and the position of the camel\u2019s hump. \u201cThese are the most important points,\u201d said Al-Athba.<\/p>\n<p>For black camels the size of its head can be a deal-breaker, but for white camels, the consistency of the colour counts.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in Qatar and its neighbours are seeking to give traditional practices a higher profile as they compete with mega events such as football\u2019s World Cup and Formula One grands prix.<\/p>\n<p>Al Athba said the festival had been a success, drawing Qatar\u2019s growing urban population as well as its desert-dwelling Bedouin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AL Shahania (Qatar) (AFP) \u2013\u00a0The lips pouted to perfection, the neck was long and poised, and the judges were sure that no Botox was involved as they awarded Qatar\u2019s largest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1366656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1366656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1366656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}