So, the first Oktoberfest was as much a celebration of national pride as it was a wedding. The original celebration was a public festival which included a horse race held at Therisienwiese ...

Oktoberfest is the world's largest folk festival ... of Bavaria and Princess Therese should be celebrated with a horse race. The king of Bavaria loved this idea and made it happen.

Oktoberfest attracts legions of visitors to ... later King Ludwig I, organized a horse race on the meadow as part of his wedding to Princess Therese of Saxony-Hildburghausen.

It's not just partying on the tables that is part of the Oktoberfest tradition in Munich, but also the duck dance. It was even invented at the Oktoberfest. Credit: Murat Taner/Getty Images ...