Many thanks for comments, everybody.
Jano: no, no, I never setup my outdoor pictures, although probably I should. This is one of about 10 frames which I took of this statue with different passers by and around half of them came out quite nice. I submitted another one to the current CSLR challenge.
Techo: You are absolutely right about the stray shadows. In fact I was not happy with them too, but I was too lazy to do something about them. Now I shall work on it since you have noticed too.
Great timing! very nice to see the little people win once in a while :)
The trunk tree shadow reminds me of the finish line.
(*)if I would change one thing, would get rid of as many of the extra stray shadows as possible. Clone out the stray shadow near the bottom left corner and maybe crop out the one near the right side.