Get out of the hotel and take a taxi, let the driver take you to the racecourse, and after a while, the driver took Ju'an to the nearest racecourse and got out of the car to have a look. People don't seem to be as many as they imagined, a small pale green house at the door has a dozen or so windows, which is the betting station of the racetrack, and these crowds of people do not have the momentum of the second largest sport in the United States at all, and they are sparsely walking inside.

Ju An was not going to gamble on horses, so he also followed the crowd and walked directly to the racecourse, and when he was about to the door, he found that there were still people checking tickets at the door, didn't he say that the racetrack was free to enter, so he had to turn his head and ask a black uncle behind him.

Ju An smiled at the black uncle and said, "I'm sorry! Didn't I say that the racecourse is open for free, why do people still check tickets?"

When the black uncle heard this, he replied with a smile, "Hey! Young man, let's come to see the horse race for the first time, the racecourse is free, but you have to go to the door to buy a betting slip to get in, the cheapest one is seven dollars, which is equivalent to a ticket" After speaking, he patted Ju An's arm in a friendly manner and pointed in the direction of the betting station.

Ju An hurriedly said thank you, then ran to the small house, bought the cheapest ticket, and entered the racecourse smoothly.

I bought a Coke at the window inside, and while drinking it, I found a seat to sit down, and when I was looking for a seat, Ju'an was a little entangled, the front seat was close to the track, but I couldn't see the whole lap of the track, and it was exposed to Iwatani just below, and the back seat could see the shed with shade, but I couldn't see the horse race clearly, which his uncle was entangled.

In the end, Ju An had no choice but to look at the horses in front of him, and then go up to avoid the sun later.

On the inside of the racetrack there is a long monitor with the number of today's races written on it, and there is a larger monitor next to it that broadcasts the picture of the racecourse from time to time.

As soon as Ju An sat down, he saw an old man with a hat and a trumpet in his hand, walked to the middle of the road, and began to blow the trumpet.

Then I saw the doorway not far away, a horse was pulled out, each horse squatted on the back of a jockey, the jockey is not tall, small and short squatting on a tall horse, live off a big horse monkey, look at Ju'an just want to laugh, but it is understandable, after all, it is a speed race, the jockey on horseback is tall and good-looking, the weight has also gone up, dragging down the horse's speed.

Raising his head, he saw that on the side of the field, a big pickup truck dragged a long starting bar, entered the track, and the horses were pushed into the starting bar, and after the horses entered the starting bar, the gate was suddenly opened, and the horses rushed out immediately, and in the blink of an eye, they galloped in front of Ju'an, and the speed surprised Ju'an, and even the hand holding the water cup stopped in mid-air, and then I heard someone around me shouting the number on the horse, cheering for the horse.

Seeing that the horses had already rounded the corner, it was not clear to see the situation of each horse due to the viewing angle, but fortunately, the large monitor showed the situation of the horses on the other side of the track, and Juan saw that a black steed and the jockey on his back were already two positions ahead of the second horse. In less than a minute, the leading black horse turned the corner, and now it was time for the final sprint, behind the black horse a red horse was catching up, and the speed was getting faster and faster, and when he crossed the finish line, Ju An didn't even see which horse ran first, and when he looked at the ranking on the monitor, he knew that the red horse finally surpassed the black horse, and the slow motion on the monitor showed that the red horse was only a head away from the black horse.

Then I heard someone cheering next to me, someone scolding, it was a mess, Ju An picked up the Coke, walked to the back row, and found a seat with a good line of sight to prepare to watch the next one.

There are not many people in the stands above, and the seats are a lot free, Ju An casually found a seat and sat down, then drank the Coke in his hand, waited for the start of the next game, and looked at the time of the next game on the big screen There were still more than 20 minutes, Ju An turned his head boredly and looked around.

Everyone else was chatting in groups, only Ju An sat alone in the stands and turned his head to look around, it seemed to be conspicuous, and after looking for a while, an old man with a white face and beard came over and said to Ju An: "Hey! Lad, let's be at the racetrack for the first time."

When Ju An saw the old man's jeans and cowboy hat dressed as a farmer, he smiled and said, "The first time I went to the racecourse to watch the race, everything was fresh, so I looked around."

The old man smiled and said, "You don't mind if I sit next to you." Seeing Ju An smile and nodded, the old man sat down next to Ju An and said to Ju An: "Generally, the Asian faces who come here are in groups with the tour group, and you look very special alone, so come and talk."

Ju An replied with a smile: "I'm not here to travel, I have my own ranch, and I'm more interested in horses, so I came over to have a look, and I also raised dozens of quartes."

When the old man heard this, his face was full of surprise: "That's really rare, my name is Brad, I am a horse rancher, I am in the suburbs of Los Angeles, I have some thoroughbred horses and some horses that people have deposited, today one of my three-year-old ponies came to participate in the competition, that is my baby."

After hearing this, Ju An said: "My name is An, and my ranch is in Montana, and I mainly raise cattle, and the horses are mainly quartes used for pastures."

Brad said: "It's good to have a quart in the pasture, and the quart still has a slight advantage in a quarter mile, and you can't outrun a thoroughbred when it's longer, and the race on the horse farm is generally a thoroughbred."

Ju An nodded and said: "I looked at it in front just now, and the horses were slaughtered as if they were flashing in front of me, so fast, I wanted to get a thoroughbred horse to raise."

Brad said with a smile: "It takes a lot of time and money to raise a thoroughbred, not to mention the price of a horse, just the daily maintenance cost, the thoroughbred is too delicate, the cost of feed alone is close to a hundred dollars a day, and this is still an ordinary time, during the race to reach three hundred dollars a day, and not to mention anything else, that is, the bandages on the feet of the horses in each race cost dozens of dollars, and the skin of the thoroughbred horse is very thin, like people, a mosquito bite is a big bag, and you have to wear mosquito clothing at night, I also swam a few kilometres in the pool every day."

"Why do you want so much money" Ju An asked in surprise, this is much higher than his food expenses for a day, and he is not as good as a horse after living for most of his life.

"Of course, if you just want to raise a thoroughbred to have fun, you don't need such good maintenance, but if you want your horse track then you have to maintain it like this, my ranch most of the time relies on breeding ponies and fostering horses for others to maintain, it's really expensive, but if your horse can win the race, it will immediately multiply its value, and the prize money for the three championships every year is also several million, and the maximum prize money for the three championships is five million," Brad said, looking at the racetrack.

Ju An smiled and nodded, "This is good business!" Looks like I'm going to get a few pure-bloods to play with too," he naturally touched the beads around his neck.

After listening to Ju'an's words, Brad shook his head and smiled and said: "It's indeed a good business, but in the United States alone, more than 10,000 thoroughbred horses are born every year, and less than one percent of them can really go on the track, and the offspring of the champion horse will be put up for auction as soon as they are weaned at birth, and the price is at least 200,000 US dollars, and the champion stallion will cost more than 100,000 US dollars for a single breeding, but unfortunately I have never encountered such a horse in my life."

The old man said that Ju'an was really interested, you can't do it, you can't mean that I can't do it, don't we still have a helper, the space in the beads is not very powerful against adult animals, and it is useful to deal with the developing pony that is ten **, when the time comes, buy a few small thoroughbred horses and put them in, and when you grow to three years old, it may be a money printing machine.

was dreaming, but was interrupted by the old man, the old man to Ju An began to sell his horse: "If you want to buy a horse, you can go to my horse farm to see, they are all good little guys, today one of my horses will participate in the race, it is the next race."

While the old and the young were chatting like this, the trumpet in the middle of the track began to blow again, and a new batch of horses was led out of the doorway.

The old man pointed to a big blue horse and said to Ju'an: "That's my horse, the name is the speeding train, and the speed is very good." After saying that, he took out a telescope from his pocket, stared at it for a while, and then handed it to Ju An, and then pointed to the horse in the field.

Ju An took the binoculars and looked at the horse for a while, then praised: "What a beautiful horse!" ”。

The old man said proudly to Ju An: "The fast train is the fastest horse in my racecourse now, and this is the first time to participate in the race, I hope to achieve a good ranking, of course, the championship is better."

Returning the binoculars in his hand to the old man's hand, Ju An watched the horses push the starting bar on their backs, and as soon as the starting bar opened, the old man's horse rushed out of the speeding train, but the speed was still not fast enough, only grabbed the fifth seat, Ju An and the old man began to refuel the speeding train together, and the old man's nervous mouth kept saying: Hurry up! Baby! You can do it, faster!.

After a lap of the race, the speeding train finished second, and the old man seemed very happy. He even invited Juan to the stable at the racecourse to watch his horses.

(To be continued)