Chapter 272: Breeder's Cup (1)
Two days passed in a flash-
After retrieving all the nitrated wolf skins from the leather shop, Stone and Joey each took one. Of the remaining five wolf skins, three were taken back by Li Chenghua, Austin, and Mr. Li to serve as seat cushions for the seats, and the other two were sent to a tailor shop in the town to make a wolf skin jacket for Mr. Peng.
After a short country vacation, the Li family and the young couple returned to Los Angeles together.
Originally, Peipei wanted to take Thomson and the "Triple Crown" with them, but they were carrying Austin's "Sky Shark".
As a private business jet, the Gulfstream G550 can only carry people and horses!
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Thomson and the "Triple Crown" had to carry a separate transport plane, and they arrived in the greater Los Angeles area one after the other.
Under the arrangement of Marseille's agent, Mr. Wilkes, the "Triple Crown" moved into the stables of Santa Monica Racecourse ahead of schedule, and underwent various pre-race medical examinations along with his owner.
After all the pre-race preparations were completed and before the start of the race, Pei Pei drove from Malibu to the temporary training site at Santa Monica Racetrack every morning to train with the "Triple Crown" for physical recovery.
At the same time, Pei Pei also has to carry out more than three hours of temporary daily training for riders every day.
During this time, Austin and Li Chenghua became aviation experts again, busy with their daily work.
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Horse racing is the second largest sport in the United States after baseball, and is widely participated by the American public!
The "Breeders' Cup" is very well-known in the United States, and is the fourth most popular race in the United States in addition to the traditional Triple Crown.
As the start of the Breeders' Cup draws closer, media networks across the U.S. are paying more attention to the most popular champions in all categories.
Meanwhile. Major gambling companies across the United States have also offered odds to win the championship for each participating horse.
The annual two-year-old race of the "Breeders' Cup" has been nicknamed by the media as the "seed breeder blue" of the next year's Triple Crown. It is closely watched by major media and bo/cai companies.
Pei Pei's "Triple Crown" has a strong name in itself. Coupled with the excellent table of all wins in the points race some time ago, under the operation and hype of Marseille agent Mr. Wilkes, it has gained some media attention before the start of the competition.
Before the start of the game, in order to attract the public's attention, some media hyped the name and gender of the "Triple Crown".
Most of the media tend to ridicule the owner's arrogance and arrogance, touting the other popular seeds while contrasting, belittling and ridiculing Peipei's "Triple Crown"!
In response to the disparaging remarks in the media, Pei Pei, as a horse owner and rider, and his agent, Mr. Wilkes, have different attitudes.
Pei Pei's attitude was very annoyed. It is believed that the media deliberately brushed aside the "Triple Crown" in the report on the overall victory of the points race, but the focus of the report was on the name and gender of the horse, which is not objective and realistic at all!
And the agent Wilkes believes that the more the media promotes and dismisses the gender and name of the "Triple Crown", the more it will be able to avoid the attention of other seeded players. Even, it is very likely that the betting / lottery company will increase the odds because of the media's contempt for the report, in order to attract people's attention.
Originally, Pei Pei also figured out that GuΓ²'s own father had bribed reporters from several sports newspapers and magazines, so that they could advocate for the "Triple Crown" in the media. But after hearing Wilkes' analysis, the money-loving Pei Pei died down. Compared with the belittlement and ridicule of the media, the odds offered by the Bo/Cai company are the focus of her attention!
Sure enough, with more and more reports from the media from time to time comparing the "Triple Crown" as a negative image with other seeded players, the odds offered by major Bo/Cai companies for the "Triple Crown" have also been adjusted!
Odds of 1 to 1.44 from the start. It was 1 to 1.56 and 1 to 1.60 after a few days
Almost every day or two, the odds of the "Triple Crown" will be slightly raised.
That's it. Time has finally come to October 26, the day of the start of the "Breeders Cup" -
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Early in the morning of October 26, Peipei's family drove to Santa Monica Racecourse. Watch the Breeders' Cup, the most anticipated race in action.
The Lee family and Austin also invited their respective relatives and friends to form a large cheerleading team.
Lee Seung-hwa invited the Quinn family and the Casaro family to watch the game.
Austin invited his parents and some of his cousins, who were also passionate about horse racing, to the Triple Crown's cheerleading team. Cheer on your wife!
All the cheerleaders in the cheerleading team, regardless of whether they are optimistic about the "Triple Crown" on the field, they all more or less bet on the "Triple Crown" to win the bet slip, which can be regarded as a personal match for Pei Pei as a horse owner and rider!
Among these people, the three who bet the most and support the most are of course Li Chenghua, Mr. Li and Austin.
In each of the five graded events where the Triple Crown qualified for the tournament, each of them wagered a million dollars each!
According to the latest odds of 1 to 1.82 for the "Triple Crown", if the "Triple Crown" wins all five graded events, each of them will receive a handsome return of more than $4 million!
As a horse owner and rider, Pei Pei has a large amount of bets!
She bet $10 million each in each of the five graded events! The gamble of a full 50 million US dollars is equivalent to emptying all the cash cows in Peipei's account at once!
If it weren't for the fear of betting too much at once and triggering the company to lower the odds, Pei Pei even thought about whether to find a bank for a mortgage, and then put all the money lent into this game!
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Led by the racecourse staff, Lee Seung-hwa and Austin led the huge cheerleading team behind them to the VIP stands, waiting for the first senior horse race to start.
As the narrator announced, all the participating riders and horses entered the venue.
Once the riders and horses were ready, the opening race of the Breeders' Cup, the Breeders-Cup-Dirt-Mile, kicked off with a gunshot
When the hot cheering sound in the front audience came into Peipei's ears, her feelings involuntarily surged with enthusiasm.
Today, as a rider, Pei Pei will take the "Triple Crown" to two two-year-old classification races.
The first event was the "New Horse Grass Race", which was scheduled by the organizers as the third race of the opening day, and the time was around 10:10 in the morning.
In order to maintain the best condition during the race, Pei Pei did not return to her residence in Malibu last night, but stayed directly in a hotel near the Santa Monica Racecourse.
At eight o'clock in the morning, she took Thomson to the racecourse, and after meeting with her agent Wilkes, she and Thomson were in the training ground behind the racecourse to prepare for the pre-race warm-up.
Even when her family came to cheer with a huge cheering team, Pei Pei was too busy to go to the stands in the front court to say hello, but asked her family to convey her thanks to all the relatives and friends who came to cheer on GuΓ² by phone.
At this time, the more complicated the voices from the front stands, the more nervous Peipei's mood was at the moment.
It's not that she's worried about whether the "Triple Crown" can win, but because she has to wait a while to appear under the gaze of tens of thousands of eyes, she is just a little stage frightened!
"Take a deep breath! It's already this time, and no matter how nervous you are, it won't help! Thomson saw Pei Pei's nervousness, patted her on the shoulder and cheered, "You have to trust your partner!" 'Triple Crown' is a good horse! In my opinion, as long as there is full trust between the rider and the horse, it is already half the battle! At this point, you don't have the slightest problem with the Triple Crown's trust! So, all you have to do is grab the reins, flick the whip and leave all the rhythm of the field to the Triple Crown! Trust me, the 'Triple Crown' will win the championship! β
Pei Pei looked up and smiled at Thomson, and was about to explain to the other party why she was nervous, when she was-
"Just this clown wants to win the championship? Shh An abrupt voice reached the ears of Pei Pei and Thomson.
Pei Pei turned her head in the direction of the sound and realized that the mocker was the No. 9 contestant who was competing with her in the "New Horse Grass Race".
She glared at the other party coldly, and then closed her gaze.
Pei Pei was too lazy to clash with someone before the game, but who expected this person to think that Pei Pei was afraid of him.
I saw that the other party deliberately walked to Pei Pei's side with the horse in his hand, and while staggering, he threw down a sentence in a contemptuous tone: "Mare? Ha! And a female rider! You're a perfect match! (To be continued......)
PS: This pre-match conflict scene has been brewing in my heart for a long time, but to vividly depict the expected face slapping process, I don't know how to put pen to paper! So, I was entangled and entangled, and after drinking a cup of coffee, I brewed another cup of coffee, and it took me four hours to revise and revise before I could find out the clue and feeling! I guess I'm going to have to stay up late again tonight!