CHON BURI: Farmers in this central province raced their water buffaloes at a muddy annual race on Sunday to mark the beginning of the new rice growing season at the start of the monsoon weather, in a tradition dating back to the 1800s which celebrates the beasts of burden.
Scores of spectators watched the racing on a 200-metre-long dirt track in the seaside province of Chon Buri, some 80km southeast of Bangkok.
