"Ryan is through and through a farmer," says his father, Stanley Lipschitz. Ryan, 12, is quick to agree, "Of course I want to be a farmer. I'm not gonna go to school," he says, "I'll go straight through to working." The Lipschitz's run Safari Ostrich Show Farm - the largest of its kind in South Africa, offering rides on the birds, showing ostrich races with expert jockeys, selling ostrich egg art and feather creations. But the average tourist at the Lipschitz's farm would not survive a bareback ostrich race against young Ryan!

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