The Longines Cup series is an international equestrian event sponsored by Longines Watch Industry, which is divided into four major events once a year, each with a different name, all with the title of 'Longines'. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Su Ming's 'speed' race can only be regarded as one of the events in the three-day race. However, because speed racing is the most simple to understand and can arouse the passion of the audience, it is the most popular one.

In fact, whether a horse is good or bad, whether it can run or not, is only a single indicator, more importantly, the fit between the rider and the horse, the coordination of the horse's body and many other factors.

The Longines Cup is relatively comprehensive, divided into dressage, endurance and show jumping, also known as eventing.

One of the most ornamental is of course dressage; The most exciting part is the endurance race, which is divided into several stages of nearly 10 kilometers, and it is not just about running fast, including flat tracking, obstacle chase and cross-country; And the most interesting is the show jumping.

Strictly speaking, Hou Longtao and Su Ming are both laymen, laymen look at the lively, insiders look at the doorway, in order to pretend to be insiders, these three competitions have very professional rules for adding and deducting points, except for the situation where the performance gap between the players is too large, the layman can't see the win or loss at all.

Su Ming also made up a lot of related knowledge, but when he arrived at the scene, he learned that the four small events of the so-called 'Xiangjiang Longines Cup' were all speed races.

2200 meters, 1600 meters, 1000 meters and 800 meters in short range.

It turned out that Su Ming made a mistake, the Longines Cup Xiangjiang event and the Longines Cup are not the same thing, the Longines Cup Equestrian Competition will be held in different cities every year, and it has also been held in Shanghai in the mainland, while the Longines Cup Xiangjiang various events are only held in Xiangjiang.

As a result, the total prize of 100 million yuan was much less, and the highest champion was only more than 4 million Hong Kong dollars.

With the previous 100 million bottom, Su Ming was not ready to make a lot of money with the Longines Cup, no matter how powerful his mental power is, it is impossible to directly make Da Kuaihuo and Lion Castle Dragon become super horses, the strength of these two guys was originally at the bottom of this level of competition, after Tony's special training and spiritual nourishment for half a year, it is already very good to be able to enter the finals in racing.

Su Ming's biggest hope before was on dressage.

The main test of dressage is the obedience of the horse, and the degree of cooperation between the jockey and the horse, which is simply easy for Su Ming, who has mental power to communicate. Make up a set of moves in advance, let these two guys remember to practice, Tony riding on the horse and cooperating a little, there will definitely be no mistakes.

People who really understand horses don't necessarily value sprint results. Just like the Olympic Equestrian Games, the sprint race is only one part of the endurance race, and the endurance race is also only a third of the overall competition.

The era is different, and the technological society no longer needs to use horses to haul goods and run long distances, so for horse lovers, obedience and cooperation are the most important indicators to measure whether a horse is good or not.

What Su Ming wants is to make a big splash in the dressage competition, increase the value of the two horses, and have the opportunity to promote the zoo.

God can't let Su Ming take advantage of everything alone, and his wishful thinking has completely failed.

"Of course, there are many people in Xiangjiang who bet on horses, but there are very few who really understand equestrianism. It's a competition, promoting Longines, but everyone can't understand it, what's the point? Ryūgo wore a big sunglasses and sat in the stands with his son to the left.

Today is the opening ceremony of the four major events of the Longines Cup and the first 800-meter race, Long Wu and Xiang Zuo father and son are both equestrian enthusiasts, Long Wu is also an honorary member of the Jockey Club, about Su Ming and Hou Longtao, the four of them came to the scene together.

Although he knew that the relationship between the Long Wu family and Su Ming was good, Hou Longtao was the first time to see the 'live' Long Wu after all, and he was pleasantly surprised, so he pulled their father and son to take pictures.

"Brother Ten, do you need to open a private room?" Su Ming saw that there were more and more spectators, and the audience was almost unable to sit down, thinking that this good man was also a star, and his public appearance would cause a riot.

"Look at the horses, of course it has to be lively, there is a sense of bleating in the box?" Long Wu shrugged, "Besides, there are as many stars in Xiangjiang as dogs, everyone is used to it, who cares about me as an old man, maybe my boys are more famous than me." ”

Xiang left walked from a distance with two large bags of drinks in both hands, and seemed to have met an acquaintance halfway, and chatted with a smile. One man and one woman, the man is not tall, and the woman is slightly plump, both wearing big sunglasses and wearing very ordinary clothes.

"Old Bean, I just saw Tony and Carina too." After a while, he walked through the crowd to the left, smiled and distributed the drinks to the three people, and said to Long Wu.

Su Ming felt that the two men and women in sunglasses were a little familiar, but he had never heard the English name, and Hou Longtao whispered unexpectedly: "Tony Leung, Carina Lau?" ”

Long Wu shrugged: "Yes, Jialing loves to bet on horses, Wei Zai can't, he likes to be quiet, and he accompanies Jialing every time." ”

Su Ming: "......"

Hou Longtao was like listening to a play, his eyes widened, he looked at the two people over there for a while, and looked at Su Ming for a while.

"I will have the opportunity to introduce you to each other in the future, Wei Tsai wants to find a place to sleep every time he comes to the racecourse, and you are now an official member of the Jockey Club, so you just have the privilege to use the box at any time." Long Wu said with a smile.

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After a routine opening remarks, the Longines Cup Opening Ceremony officially began.

Although there is no competition, the opening ceremony performance is a dressage, this gorgeous and elegant sport lacks a trace of life-and-death fireworks, but it is very ornamental and highlights the prosperous scene.

A total of eight horses, led by a pure black steed, lined up and slowly entered the prepared field.

The eight horses are like eight precise but energetic mechanical beings, each step, they raise their hooves, stop in place for a while, and then take the next step with a very rhythmic sense, and it is rare that the steps of the eight horses are actually uniform, like a military team under review.

As soon as the leading horse appeared, it won a full house, and the enthusiasm in the horse farm, which can accommodate tens of thousands of people, was enthusiastic, and the jockey on the black horse seemed to feel the enthusiasm of the audience, taking off his hat and waving to the audience.

Equestrian competitions are the only ones in all sports in the world that do not distinguish between men and women, and the leading jockey has blond hair and is a foreign girl.

"Princess Anne, British equestrian champion, one of the royal heirs." Long Wu said.

"Huh?" Su Ming was slightly stunned, this name is so familiar.

immediately remembered that Cui Bijia had introduced this princess and was still her fan.

Foreigners are also quite casual and say that whoever will come.

"The princess is here, doesn't the chief executive need to come forward to receive her?" Su Ming looked around.

"That's not necessary, it's not a foreign visit." Long Wu pointed to a box opposite: "These foreign princesses with titles often come to Xiangjiang to participate in Jockey Club activities, and when I saw that there was no one in that box, it is said that several princesses from various countries came to this competition." ”

In the box that Long Wu was referring to, there were four women of different ages who were either watching the movements on the field through binoculars or through the screen in the box.

In addition to Unigene and Haya, there is also an Oriental woman like a little girl.

The last one was wearing the uniform of the Xiangjiang police. (To be continued.) )