Photo: Jean Demmeni/Universiteit Leiden
It's human instinct to like competitions related to agility and speed, from the past until now. While we are in Indonesia now in the fever of organizing MotoGP, this photo was a horse race in Bukittinggi around 1911.
This photo was taken by Jean Demmeni, a photographer of French-Madurese descent living in West Sumatra, and the archive is kept by Leiden University in the Netherlands.
We can see a wide race arena and many spectators attended the race. This event was also a prestige competition arena for the rich people who own racing horses.