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Chapter 149 says horses

The next day, after Ye Quan received another call from Jiang Ming, he set off for Wuyang City to participate in a horse auction held there. (If you like this book, please bookmark biquge.info)

Jiang Ming is a fun, whether it is dog fighting, cricket fighting, jī fighting or horse racing, he is a connoisseur of the level, joined two Jockey Club clubs, and fostered two thoroughbreds, two Arabian horses and a Serra * French horse in Tianjing and Wuyang respectively.

Previously, Ye Quan had been invited to watch horse races many times.

Ye Quan is naturally a horse lover, and when he heard that there was a horse auction this time, the auctions were all excellent domestic and foreign horse races, so he moved his mind.

Because it was a weekend, Chen Hao and Liao Zaihua also traveled together, and the three of them took a plane to Wuyang City.

Jiang Ming came to pick up the plane, he threw away his bodyguards, personally drove a Bentley, and Ye Quan and others in the same car, along the way kept introducing the history, prospects and fun of horse racing to the three of them, and encouraged the three of them to become a horse owner.

Horse racing is one of the oldest sports, nearly 100 countries around the world have horse racing industry, from the nineties in China, in Tianjing, Nandu and Wuyang and other big cities have also slowly risen this sport, for some people, owning a good horse, is like owning a luxury car, is a proud thing.

With the improvement of people's living standards, especially the pursuit of the wealthy class, horse racing activities have returned to the city, and the development of its horse racing industry has also been at the forefront of the country, and it even has the title of "Horse Racing Capital", of course, this excludes the Donggang Special Economic Zone.

The reason why horse racing has attracted a lot of attention in China, and even caused many provinces and cities to fight openly and secretly, the core is Ma Cai, Ma Cai is the world's largest lottery, issued by more than 80 countries around the world.

Once Ma Cai is banned in China, its industrial value will be incalculable. Taking Donggang as an example, the horse racing industry brings in more than 80 billion Hong Kong dollars in income every year, and tens of billions of taxes are paid.

Behind the horse racing industry is also related to professional services, horse breeding, harness manufacturing, tourism, media and other fields. It can be said that horse racing is an industry of great economic value and will play a huge role in promoting the economic development of a region.

Regarding the opening of Ma Cai in China, some experts and scholars also gave a very yòu number jù - "143", that is, the operation of Ma Cai will achieve sales revenue of 100 billion yuan per year, pay taxes of 40 billion yuan, and create 3 million jobs.

100 billion yuan is only one-ninth of the horse industry in Lijianguo, and the tax revenue of the Donggang horse industry accounts for 8% of the total tax revenue, which is not too exaggerated.

Nearly 600 billion yuan of domestic funds flow overseas and underground every year.

In 2005, Xinhua Guogong Cai (sports lottery plus welfare lottery) totaled 71.6 billion yuan, which is only equivalent to one-eighth of the amount of sī lottery and outbound gambling.

So some people even spoke: "Ma Cai is up, and the central part will rise!" ”

In any case, the domestic horse racing industry is getting more and more attention from the state, localities, businesses and individuals, and more and more people are getting involved.

Located in the northern suburbs of Wuyang City, Xiongfeng Horse City is a large-scale comprehensive racecourse with an international racecourse as the core, and it is also the only professional racecourse in Central China that can host all kinds of international horse races.

Xiongfeng Horse City covers four major industries such as sports horse racing, tourism, commerce and real estate, including more than 10 projects such as international racecourse, Jockey Club club, equestrian school, five-star hotel, luxury residence, noble residential community, intelligent office building, commercial plaza and automobile expo center.

Ye Quan and the others naturally lived in a big hotel in Macheng, and after Jiang Ming's introduction, they also met many horse racing enthusiasts, most of whom were the owners of some sī enterprises who came to redeem the auction.

Now the domestic tycoons also like to buy horses, and most of the purchases are imported thoroughbreds, which seems to represent a kind of aristocratic temperament, a kind of status, and a kind of fashion style.

After lunch, Ye Quan held a brochure about tomorrow's auction, which contained detailed information about the participating horses, including pictures, age, xìng, pedigree, height, weight, and previous achievements.

The 42 horses from eight countries, including the United Kingdom, Liberia, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands and Australia, participated in the auction, and many of them have participated in international equestrian competitions, and many of them have achieved excellent results.

37 of the 42 horses are foreign horse breeds, and only 5 horses are from China, namely three three hippos and two Yili horses, listening to Jiang Ming's introduction, this is still because the auction has expanded the scale, so that 5 domestic horse breeds can participate in the auction, like the horse auctions held in other cities in the past, Qingyi sè are foreign horse breeds, and domestic horse breeds are not on the table at all.

China has produced famous horses since ancient times, and horse racing has a history of 2,000 years in China, and the most famous is the story of "Tianji Horse Racing".

In the Tang Dynasty, various equestrian competitions developed to a peak, such as horse dance, equestrian skills, polo and other sports and entertainment combined projects, which have the prototype of modern advanced equestrianism, and there is a description of playing polo in the "Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty".

Although there are 37 horse breeds in China, the vast majority of them are service horse breeds used for transportation and farming, and there are no riding breeds specially bred for breeding.

The Ili and Three Hippos are already some of the best light racehorses in the country, but they are far behind the British thoroughbreds, which are known for being the fastest in the world.

The British thoroughbred's best time in the 1000m run was 1 minute and 7 seconds for the Three Hippos and 1 minute and 11 seconds for the Ili horse, more than 10 seconds behind the world record.

Not only is it not as good as a thoroughbred, but it also has a gap with foreign famous horses such as Arabian horses, Akhal-Tejin horses, and sweat-blooded BMWs, and it is not commensurate with the status of Xinhua as the world's second largest horse producer.

There are many reasons for this.

First, there is no emphasis and inheritance in the breeding of horse breeds in China, historically, there have been excellent war horses in our country, taking the sweat and blood BMW as an example, often appear in historical documents and various novels in the sweat and blood of the horse, although its description is exaggerated, but it is indeed one of the best war horses in the world, there are three kinds of thoroughbred horses in the world today are sweat and blood horses, Arabian horses and British horses. Among them, the sweat horse is the purest horse breed, and the Arabian horse and the British thoroughbred have the bloodline and genes of the sweat horse.

In 112 B.C., a Dunhuang prisoner captured a bloody horse and presented it to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty got this horse, he was ecstatic and called it "Tianma". But only a thousand miles of horses can not change the quality of domestic horses, in order to seize a large number of "sweat and blood horses", Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent a delegation of more than 100 people, with a horse made of pure gold zuò to the Dawan country, hoping to exchange the stallion of the Dawan horse with heavy gifts.

After the envoy came to Dawan, the king of Dawan refused the request. On the way back to China, Jinma was also robbed in Dawan and killed. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was furious about this and made the decision to seize the bloody BMW by force.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ordered Li Guang to go on two expeditions, and after a bloody war, the Han army defeated the Dawan Kingdom and brought back dozens of good horses and 3,000 male and female horses below the middle level. After a long journey, there were only more than 1,000 sweaty horses left when they arrived at Yùmén Pass.

From the Han Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty, it has flourished for thousands of years, but why did it disappear later?

Judging from the historical data, the number of sweaty horses introduced at that time was quite large, and the ratio of male to female was relatively moderate, and it was completely feasible to breed.

However, due to the absolute numerical dominance of local horse breeds in China, any introduced horse breeds followed the following pattern: introduction-miscellaneous jiāo-improvement-huijiāo-disappearing.

Although the sweat horse is fast, it is slender, and the ancient soldiers were more willing to choose stout horses when they rode horses to fight, which is one of the reasons why the sweat and blood horses disappeared in China.

In addition, Chinese people often like to castrate horses, which also makes some excellent war horses lose the ability to breed offspring.

Eventually, almost all stallions introduced from Central and West Asia died out.

Secondly, it is the demand for horse breeds, so that the horses in Xinhua are mostly used for military service and rarely used for sports, which has caused the degradation of horse breeds and affected the improvement of sports performance.

In the later period of the Anti-Japanese War, Lijianguo sold Morgan horses, Quartma and other horse breeds to China, and arranged them in Minxian and Chongming stud farms respectively. However, due to the war, the plan to improve Chinese horses with Lijian horse breeds failed.

After the liberation, China's government began to import a large number of horse breeds from the former Soviet Union in a planned manner. After several decades of efforts, China's horse breed improvement has made great achievements, and many breeds have appeared one after another, but due to the advent of peacetime and the needs of economic construction, the goal of breeding horse breeds in China is still to pull horses or use horse breeds at the same time.

Therefore, what our country is currently facing is that the Chinese horse breed is not fully suitable for competitive sports horses.

The direction of modern improved horse breeds is to develop in the direction of sports competitions, and a large number of horses used in transportation and farming and service horses in the past will gradually withdraw from the stage of history.

First, they withdrew from the battlefield, and then they will gradually withdraw from the places of agricultural production and transportation.

The third is the late start, Western countries have been purposefully breeding excellent racehorses since the 17th century, and the country has only begun to systematically breed horse breeds since the last century, and most of the horses that have been bred are servant horses.

In addition, the gap in breeding management and training level is not small, and from now on, the Chinese people can only catch up.

After Ye Quan read the atlas, he thought of the current situation of domestic horse breeds, so he had a different mind, his original plan was just to buy a few good horses to raise on the sandbar in Taoyuan Village, usually used to ride, if the space of Tongguò is optimized, he can also go to participate in horse racing, bringing him some profits.

But now it seems that it is better to simply transform the sandbank into a ranch and breed one of the best horse breeds in the world by yourself, so that the horses of Xinhuaguo can dominate the world, instead of looking up to others, this is extremely difficult for others, and it is also a goal that will never be completed in a short period of time, but for Ye Quan, it is very simple, and it can be done in a few years.

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