Thracians was emphasised or the communal participation; both were. Sokrates also mentions a torch-race. Usually torch-races were on foot, like at the Prometheia or the Hephaisteia; yet the one during the Bendideia [...] amazement. Since the Thracians were most famous for their horses, this torch-race on horseback was probably their responsibility. In this torch-race the Thracians could –or rather should– demonstrate their ethnic [...] the two front men because they were the trainers of the winning team, standing behind them, of the torch-race on horseback during the Bendideia. That the Bendideia was still very popular in the fourth century