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Ladies race winner Michelle Kokiri from New Zealand and holds up her cheese prize at Cooper's Hill, England during the annual cheese rolling race Monday May 25, 2009. The first written evidence of the event dates from 1826, but the tradition was established long before - perhaps as a Pagan harvest ritual. For the past 21 years the 7-8lb Double Gloucester cheeses have been made by Diana Smart at her family farm in Churcham. During the war years a wooden cheese was used due to rationing ** UNITED KINGDOM OUT.
