Border Security Force staged Horse Race Cup recently at Delhi Race. Subhash Joshi, IPS, director general, BSF was the chief guest of the event and gave the trophy to the winner Jockey Morning Devotion(Horse), K Narender Kumar (owner of a horse).
Border Security Force Brass band, armed with drums, trumpets and bagpipes, displayed a symphony of martial music tunes during the race. The resilient riders of the BSF brought laurels to organisation by their excellent performance in Asiad (1982) and many other national/international events conducted by EFI and FEI. Until 1970, BSF did not have any horses. The founding director of the BSF academy at Tekanpur(near Gwalior) Brig BC Pandey introduced the first unit of horses in the academy.
Over the years the horses unit at the Tekanpur academy got established and is currently thriving in an impressive way with in a short span of time. BSF has an strength of 341 horses which are at Punjab Frontier, Rajasthan Frontier and at training academy of the BSF at Tekanpur near Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh.