Among all the curros (corrals) or rapas das bestas (horse mane cutting) that take place in Galicia during the summer, the one in Sabucedo stands out for having preserved the purity of tradition. This is the only curro where the aloitadores (wrestlers) face the horses on an equal basis, without ropes or sticks, to immobilize them and shave their manes. Young people from the parish start every year in a centuries-old tradition that they carry in their blood, a way of understanding life in communion with horses. A code of actions that they learn since they are children, based on the action and collaboration of three looters, is the way they establish the noble and dangerous fight with the beasts in order to win them. Sabucedo's rapa was always made in a stone enclosure (the curro) in the center of the village. A few years ago, it moved to the new curro, made of masonry, where he is followed by a large crowd. The fame of Sabucedo's rapa, an ancestral tradition with a strong ritual component, has attracted the attention of anthropologists and scholars from all over the world. It takes place with the protection of Saint Lorenzo – some of the wild horses belong to the saint, that is, to the parish, and these are the ones that are shaved at the feast –, to whom the village is entrusted at the early morning mass on Saturday. Residents and visitors then go to the mountain, with provisions to replenish their strength, in search of horses to take them back to the curro, in a unique tourist and ethnographic experience.