The race of cattle held on the rice fields at the end of the agricultural cycle, is a common practice in rural southern India. She is here seen as a mirror of the evolution of the agricultural Kerala. Become a cultural activity supported by farmers gathered in the "Race Club of India", the races appear as the symbol of a new unit, the Palakkad district as well as farmers' rice bowl of the "Kerala. Stages of preparation (connection between animals) and training alternate with those of the competition, during which the animals have to run a hundred meters in a straight line in a rice field.