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July 14th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda They spit, groan, buck and have plenty of attitude, yet tourists flocked to Alice Springs to see them face off in the 42nd annual Camel Cup.
Riding Chrissie, Phoebe Waters claimed the cup for the second year in a row on Saturday as a crowd of mainly out-of-towners cheered on at Blatherskite Park.
The 24-year-old from Darwin has been riding camels for as long as she can remember and also won the cup in 2007.
She says there’s nothing to racing camels.
“There’s no skill to it at all,” Waters told AAP after the race.
“It’s feet in the stirrups, hands on the bar, and hold on.”
Although Waters has never fallen off a camel, she does get nervous.
“When we’re at the start line especially, sitting on the camel … there’s always that thing in the back of your mind where you think `if he gets up before me my knees gonna smash his saddle’.”
Spectators can take part in rickshaw rallies, hobby camel challenges and the “honeymoon handicap”, where “brides” are picked up halfway along the dirt track by their “grooms”.
There are also fashions on the field, which this year led to men and women dressing up as vikings, Arabs and sailors, in between scoffing down camel steak burgers and pluto pups.
Official punting is off the agenda and there is no prize money; the locals are only interested in having a good time and fund raising.
Cup spokesperson Ian Rowan said $62,000 went back into the community from 2011 proceeds.
“What we like about it (is) the money stays in town to help local Alice Springs people,” he said.
The first cup was started by Noel Fullerton, now 78, and was held in the Todd River, which runs through town and is generally dry.
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