The Race Track with bulls going great guns.

            Bull Racing is an extreme sport and it is a rare and unique event that happens only in Kerala.

There are races in wet mud in the rice fields of Indonesia and in Karnataka in India but these are with merely a jockey riding a sleigh. You have bull races in Pakistan and Punjab in India which are again with a jockey riding behind the racing bulls.

The great difference lies in that in Kerala, two men race with the bulls and they do a fine job of it splashing and keeping pace with the tonne or more of bovine cargo and hopefully keeping them going in the right direction.

Here is a broader view of the drama  - the two ends of the racing track. The starting side with the bullocks held back and the other end with a 4-6 feet high embankment which of course does not deter the bulls from habitually going over it in the gallop as you can see it in this series.

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Taken on: August 15, 2007

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