I think this is a case of the subject being more interesting than the photo. It's a great scene; a guy on a bicycle being pulled along by a horse, but the photo doesn't have much artistic merit (at least for me). The exposure is quite good apart from the hotspot on the back of the yellow coat and the swirling mist adds some more interest.
The scene is interesting, but the photo is not exciting enough considering what's going on in the shot.
Oh, and BTW, selective colouring will not make it any more artistic. It rarely makes anything more artistic. The highlighted yellow coat is not the most important part of that image, so the fact that it is the only thing left with colour makes little sense.