Renee Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kirjoitti: one can certainly > understand how they came to be, given people were anxious to get together > and do something horse-related at the end of the long, dark Icelandic winter > and there were frozen lakes available in abundance.
What I don't understand is why they are exported to places where they are not "needed". Why on earth does someone arrange an icetölt in an indoor arena? We have a similar event here, trot races on ice. Some are still arranged (partly perhaps for tradition) but they are becoming less I think because there are more "real tracks" that are maintained through winter. The frozen lake is not anymore the only even surface for racing. Krisse
