The annual festival of Ghode Jatra, also known as the Horse Racing Day which falls on the Nepali month of Chaitra, is being celebrated in the Kathmandu Valley with much gusto on Thursday.The Ghode Jatra is known as the oldest festival celebrated in the country’s cultural hub of the Valley.The festival is being celebrated annually as per a mythology which relates the genesis of the festival after the death of a demon named Tundi.Legend has it that the demon who lived on a meadow, which is now at Tundikhel, used to instigate terror among the Kathmandu denizens.