Brwa Abubakir owns an equestrian learning institution, and he has been passionate about equestrianism since childhood and opened the institution after graduating as a teacher.
After cleaning and saddling the horses, he spends a few minutes training his horses to warm and prepare the horses for those who go to rent them.
“There are several ways in which the participants participate in horse riding, some of them come to learn horseriding for a month, while the others know about horseriding and they come to us to rent the horses,” Abubakir, told Rudaw on Monday.
The number of equestrian institutions in Sulaimani is increasing day by day and there are now 17 official equestrian institutions.
“Students who come to us, before they go outside the park we ask them if they know how to ride, If they do not know, we will teach them and be with them; We teach them horseback riding procedures inside our school hallway, then go outside,” Paywand Hussein, an equestrian coach at Brwa School, said.
“I have been passionate about horse riding for six months, there is a Kurdish proverb that says that a rider cannot become a rider until he gets involved, and thank God I only stumbled once, but I learned,” Aland Hussein, a 19-year-old equestrian student, said.
There are currently 17 equestrian schools in Sulaimani and 12 in Erbil.
Historically, horses played a significant role in Kurdish life - they were the sole means of transportation for villagers in remote and mountainous areas and Peshmerga forces, carrying weapons and food during past revolutions in the mountains.