Since ancient times, there have been clouds, fragrant cars and famous horses, and mellow wine beauties.

In Hong Kong, having a famous car may not be a big deal, but if you have a famous horse under your name, it is definitely famous in the city and enviable.

Due to the special historical background of Hong Kong, modern horse racing, which originated in the United Kingdom, has always been the mainstream social entertainment sport in Hong Kong.

The Jockey Club is the top social circle in Hong Kong, and this statement is definitely not a lie.

As the saying goes, follow the local customs.

As early as two years ago, Lin Feng had entered the Hong Kong Jockey Club and became a Racing Member under the nomination and recommendation of the two selection members of the Li family and the Guo family. For them at the time, it was just a gesture of goodwill to deepen their relationship with Lin Feng, a new wealthy man in the mainland.

And when Ye Weiyu became a naturalized Hong Kong citizen, especially after Lin Feng moved to Hong Kong in the past year because of Ye Weiyu's expectancy to give birth, with the growing prestige of Lin Feng in the world, the Hong Kong Jockey Club also paid more and more attention to Lin Feng, so in the second year, Lin Feng's status in the Jockey Club was by-elected as a full-fee member.

It is important to note that members can only attend the race and use the members-only private room facilities on the day of the race, and there are restrictions on food and beverage services and other facilities, while full-fare members can enjoy all the facilities of the Club's clubhouses at any time, including dining, fitness and vacations.

In fact, with Lin Feng's net worth and status, he is fully qualified to become a selection member.

However, the Hong Kong Jockey Club's Election Membership is limited to 200 members, and only when the original Selecting Member dies or the Board of Directors re-elects the Selecting Member, for very special reasons.

The Club has a total of 13,000 members, but only 200 members have always been selected.

It's just that many things seem difficult, but when the ground level reaches a certain height, you don't need to do anything by yourself at all, and someone will naturally do things for you......

Shortly after the listing of Fengxing Group on the New York Stock Exchange, at the annual general meeting of the Hong Kong Jockey Club on August 31, when the new Jockey Club directors were re-elected, Lin Feng, who is now the eighth richest person in the world and the second richest person in Hong Kong, was jointly nominated as a voting member by three directors, and unsurprisingly won the majority of votes of the voting members, and successfully became a voting member of the club.

This also means that Lin Feng has truly been accepted by the top social circles in Hong Kong and has become a figure at the top of the Jockey Club's pyramid.

This status is of course nothing to Lin Feng now, but it is also convenient, because in Hong Kong, only full-fee members are eligible to become horse owners, and after becoming a voting member, they are eligible to nominate new Club members.

Although Lin Feng has no intention of cultivating his own influence in Hong Kong, there is no doubt that becoming an elected member of the Club has significantly improved his status in Hong Kong's upper class.

has become a selection member, Lin Feng feels that he can't take the Jockey Club too seriously.......

He has long been qualified to become a horse owner, but before his son was born, his energy was focused on his family, and then he was popular and busy with work. I'm not in the mood for any of this stuff at all.

During this time, he spent money to buy and buy, but it was quite enjoyable, and it happened that he was elected as a member of the Club, so he thought about buying a good horse and becoming a horse owner.

In Hong Kong, playing luxury houses, famous cars, and yachts are all low-level plays, and only becoming a horse owner is the ...... of the top rich people.

There are generally three ways to buy a horse:

1. Bid at the Hong Kong International Horse Auction

2. Bidding at overseas horse auctions

3. Entrust horse dealers or trainers to purchase on their behalf

In fact, from the perspective of really selecting good horses, it is best to bid from overseas horse auctions, after all, foreign horse racing and equestrian developed countries have the advantage of being very rigorous and professional in every link from horse pedigree gene pool, breeding, training to competition.

Some of the more well-known overseas auctions are: Magic Millions in Australia, Keeneland Sales in the United States, Tattersalls in the United Kingdom, ARQANA in France, Select Sale in Japan, Verden in Germany, etc.

However, Lin Feng didn't know much about horse racing, and he wasn't the kind of obsessed horse racing fan, and buying horses was just a family entertainment, at least it would be more fun to go to the racetrack to watch horse races in the future, after all, he had his own horses...... , he naturally didn't bother to fly abroad to choose horses.

The only way to buy thoroughbred horses in Hong Kong is through the Hong Kong International Equine Auction organised by the Club.

The Hong Kong Jockey Club auctions its yearlings every year, usually staying in Hong Kong for training at the age of two, where they are transported to Hong Kong at the age of two, where they are given a demonstration (test run) at the racecourse one week before the auction, and the horses are allowed to compete in the new horse race of the season.

Auction horses are from all over the world, including Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, the United States, etc. In general, in terms of the proportion of imports: Australia and New Zealand (73%), the United Kingdom and Ireland (19%), and others (8%).

The Hong Kong International Horse Auction Club has always been regarded as a symbol of Hong Kong's economy, and the annual auction prices also reflect the confidence and courage of Hong Kong's wealthy community.

As Hong Kong's most famous saying goes: "Horses run, dances......

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Saturday, morning, Sha Tin Racecourse.

Lin Feng and Ye Weiyu stood side by side on the terrace of the members' box, Ye Weiyu held the binoculars with great interest, watching the test run of the new horses that were about to participate in next week's auction.

She looked like she was watching, and she was still recording with a stopwatch.

This kind of test run, the distance is fixed at 200 meters, the best time is more than 9 seconds, usually between 10-12 seconds, all test runs are electronically timed, but many prospective horse owners who are ready to bid will pinch their own meters and watch the trend of the horses.

Some owners prefer to see if the gait of the horse is not characteristic of an athlete. It also pays attention to the time of the horse's test run, and at the same time to whether the rider is riding hard at that time. Some horses ride hard, and the results are naturally a little better.

If you find that some horses that have not been "driven" are running with a very light gait, although the results are not satisfactory, it does not necessarily mean that they will not run well in the future.

Lin Feng was looking through the list in his hand, which detailed the information of the 28 horses participating in the auction this time.

It's all in English, and Lin Feng is dizzy when he sees it......

Over the years, he has basically spoken English, and there is no problem in dialogue and communication, but when he looks at these highly professional materials, he feels very headache.

"Oh, Yezi, I'm dizzy when I look at these materials, come and see......" Lin Feng threw away the information in his hand and said depressedly.

"You, why are you so stupid, isn't there a Chinese version on the table, you just took the English version and flipped through it for a long time......"

Ye Weiyu walked over, casually flipped through the information on the table, and laughed.

Lin Feng muttered with some embarrassment: "So where is a lot of information, I thought it was all in English......"

Only then did I pick up a Chinese traditional Chinese auction catalogue and sit on a chair on the terrace and read it.

The information sheet for each horse includes basic information, pedigree tree, paternal information, maternal information and other modules:

Basic information: such as horse name, supplier, date of birth, auction number, stable, birth ranch, etc.

Horse Pedigree Tree: In general, only fourth-generation parental information is available in auctions, including first-generation grandparents (paternal and maternal lines), second-generation grandparents (great-grandfathers, great-grandmothers, great-grandfathers, great-grandmothers, maternal great-grandfathers, maternal great-grandfathers, maternal grandmothers, maternal great-grandfathers, maternal great-grandfathers, maternal grandmothers, maternal great-grandfathers, maternal grandmothers, maternal great-......grandfathers, maternal grandmothers, maternal parents, maternal grandmothers It's too much to subdivide and make people look at the crash). It also includes a record of internationally renowned races won by these horses.

First generation paternal information: the relevant information of the first generation of the horse's sire, including the name of the horse, the country of birth, coat color, the year of birth, the performance of the horse, the breeding of the sire line, etc.

Maternal information of several generations: information of successive generations of maternal lineage, generally including the name of the horse and its sibling, the record of the horse and its sisters, the situation of the direct parents and children, etc.

That is, the details of the paternal line are only available for one generation, while the details of the maternal line are provided for at least three generations.

The reason why when choosing a racehorse, generally pays more attention to the maternal lineage, which is a popular international standard.

From a scientific point of view, first of all, the mitochondrial chromosomal gene (Mitochonrial DNA) is left by the mother, that is, the female tail line is the most important in the horse bloodline. Secondly, the X factor, i.e. the size of the horse's heart, is also a remnant of the bus. Thirdly, the Rasmussen Factor, which has been previously studied for inbreeding, especially with good horse mothers, has a significant impact on the performance of offspring.

At the same time, according to a large number of data analysis of horse results, it is found that the children with the best results are born from both good parents, and in the group with good fathers and poor mothers, the good fathers are not passed on to the offspring, on the contrary, the children born to the group with poor fathers but excellent mothers are good.

Therefore, the residuality of horse racing ability is stronger than that of the mother of the horse.

Therefore, from the point of view of buying a horse, if you want to buy the offspring of the most expensive stallion, you must also look at the results of the mother of the horse; on the contrary, even if the father of the horse has a very ordinary evaluation in the market, if the mother of the horse is excellent, the horse born is at least superior in terms of data, and the price is relatively cheap.

If you look at the data of the entire horse industry, the probability of winning a black letter is generally 1.5% for the same quality stallion, while the mother of a good horse can increase her performance by 3-5 times, and even more so by 7 times in the high quality races.

Lin Feng looked at it and thought it was very interesting, if the matter of horse racing was studied in depth, it would actually be very interesting.

Some people are morning exercises, look at the long-term morning exercise state of the horses, because the state of the horses may have ups and downs, after watching the morning exercises, on the day of the race, see if the on-site state of the horses has changed, some are energetic, some bow their heads and collapse, without any spirit, then the horse has a problem.

Some people are track record and only look at the horse's past results.

Some people are bloodlined, most of them are people who have studied and have a deeper understanding of bloodlines, and they are sorted according to the order of the bloodlines of the horses that come out of the race, and refer to the distance of the horse's paternal and maternal lines. The genetic factor of a horse's pedigree is important, and the success rate of sorting by pedigree is at least 90%. Also, if a group of new horses comes, the new horses have no track record and must look at the pedigree.

There are also people who are informationists, collecting all kinds of information everywhere and looking at it comprehensively.

Lin Feng felt that since he didn't understand, he could look at the bloodline of the horses, which was the easiest way to choose.

After flipping through it, Lin Feng called Ye Weiyu: "Yezi, pay attention to it, how is the No. 15 horse?"

According to the data, this horse comes from the sire O'Reilly, whose dam is Lady dy Chaparral, a Group 3 champion with four wins over the 1400m and 1 mile, and her sister Bramble Rose, a Group 1 winner of the New Zealand Oaks.

The pedigree looks pretty good.

"Oh", Ye Wei agreed, holding the binoculars and still looking at the field seriously.

"Hey, it's very good, Lin Feng, come and see, it's the jujube red ...... , it's very tall, it's beautiful!" Ye Weiyu exclaimed excitedly after a while.

"Really?" Lin Fengle stood up, picked up the binoculars and looked at it.

Soon he found the No. 15 horse, and sure enough, it was a very tall and handsome jujube red stallion, and when he saw it, Lin Feng felt very fond of it.

Looking at the information, it is a two-year-old horse, just the age when it can race.

A one-year-old horse is equivalent to a human being of 12 years, a two-year-old horse is equivalent to a human being of 18 years, and each subsequent year of growth is equivalent to about three years of human age. The service age of thoroughbred horses is 3~15 years old, and some can reach 20 years old. Different uses of horses have different selection criteria for the age of the horse, but they are not absolute. In Hong Kong, for example, the racing career of speed horses is 2-10 years old, and the age of 11 is compulsory.

This horse is a New Zealand horse.

Over the years, although New Zealand has a small land area, most of the more than 3,500 foals bred every year are used for export, and many of the famous horses bred by New Zealand are directly participating in foreign races.

Many of Hong Kong's winning horses are also from New Zealand.

Although Lin Feng didn't buy a horse mainly to win the championship, it was mainly for fun, but wouldn't it be better if he could win the championship?

"Yezi, I think this horse is good, what do you think?"

"Well, I like it too, let's go down and take a closer look......" Ye Weiyu nodded.

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A week later, Friday, late.

This year's Hong Kong International Horse Auction will be held at the Sha Tin Racecourse Horse Debut Circle, where 28 selected horses from major yearling auctions around the world will be offered to members of The Hong Kong Jockey Club.

The auction will be held at 7:45 p.m. on Friday. The cocktail reception before the auction starts at 6:30 a.m.

Lin Feng and Ye Weiyu were dressed in costumes and attended the auction as bidders.

On the same night, Lin Feng and his wife bid for the No. 15 auction horse of the night, a 2-year-old New Zealand stallion, for 5.1 million Hong Kong dollars.

Lin Feng named it "Xingtian", which means "popular in the world".