People riding horses on brown field

Sumbawa Besar - West Nusa Tenggara - Indonesia

ON THE ISLAND of Sumbawa, in the Indonesian archipelago some 200 miles east of Java and Bali, race day looks a lot different than the familiar scenes at Churchill Downs and Belmont Park. The horses are smaller than Western thoroughbreds, and all the jockeys are children. National Geographic correspondent Mariana Van Zeller traveled with E:60 across the Pacific Ocean to examine the world of Sumbawa's child jockeys. Here is some of what they found.