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Wet-and-wild ride: Bull races not for faint of heart

China Daily | Updated: 2018-12-04 07:15

PARIANGAN, Indonesia - Waves of muddy water slosh over the jockey as he hangs on to the tails of a pair of bulls galloping across the rice paddy.

It's a wet-and-wild ride in this remote pocket of Indonesia's Sumatra Island, where traditional bull racing known as Pacu Jawi is serious business.

Andri Majoni would be a senior citizen in most professional sports, but the 42-year-old jockey has no plan to give up racing, despite plenty of bruising tumbles over the decades.

Wet-and-wild ride: Bull races not for faint of heart

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