Chapter 1223 – Extreme Speed Storm (III)

From early in the morning was blindfolded, until a few minutes before the race to take away, these originally grumpy horses, has long been suffocated a lot, at this moment once out of the gate, immediately burst out the strongest fastest speed, as if off the string of the arrow like rushing out of the starting point.

Although there are only more than ten horses, but all run out, the momentum is quite extraordinary, in the runway with a gust of wind, “da da” hoof beats in the ground loudspeaker effect, like heavy drums beating in the audience’s ears.

With the speed of the horse accelerating, the tens of thousands of spectators in the arena also crazy, as if intoxicated shouting, for their favorite horse to cheer, the sound of the sky to form an invisible wave of air, long echoed in the sky above the racecourse.

Before mankind did not invent cars and airplanes, the horse is mankind’s best friend, in the cold war era, occupies an indisputably important position, a fine cavalry, often is to kill the enemy to win the important weight.

Even in the era of guns, whether it is World War I or World War II, cavalry also played a very important role in the war, but in the era of peace, horse racing eventually replaced the war horse, so that the original battlefield to kill the enemy, into today’s race track competition.

Compared with modern motor sports, horse racing can stimulate the primitive wildness in people’s hearts, their ancestors, perhaps once riding on horseback to conquer the world, that kind of primitive speed, in the field set off a storm.

Eight hundred meters of short-range horse racing, just in an instant to reach the finish line.

At the moment the horse crossed the line, like an invisible hand commanding over the racecourse, the huge noise suddenly stopped, all the people at the same time, and held their breath, the kind of crazy shouting to the silence that can be heard, forming a great contrast.

The charm of horse racing lies in this, from one extreme to another, bringing people unparalleled sensory stimulation, so that people deeply love this sport.

“Who is actually first?”

“It seems to be the third horse?”

“No, it’s horse number two, I can see it most clearly.”

“It’s horse number six, it’s horse number six!”

After a short period of silence, roars erupted from the stables, and people were speculating about the horse that would eventually cross the line.

The reason why I use the word “guess” is because when the horse is running at a high speed, except for the seven or eight cameras at the finish line, I’m afraid that no one can tell which horse has crossed the line.

Just now several horses are extremely close, almost all in the same moment to the finish line, even the jockey on the back of the horse, do not know who actually won the first place, and at this moment and the scene of the same horse fans, are waiting for the results to be revealed.

Horse club organizers did not let the audience and horse fans to wait for a long time, just a minute after the horse crossed the line, countless large screen, has begun to play back the slow-motion just when the horse crossed the line.

From the static images, it could be seen that the three horse’s heads were almost at the same time rushing through the highlights, but the one in the middle was slightly ahead by a few centimeters, and it was this minuscule few centimeters that decided the head horse of this race.

“Ugh, why this horse?”

“The number two horse I was looking at was surprisingly only fourth.”

“What’s the hurry! This is only the first race, but with a few hundred thousand dollars in prize money, the following is the main event!”

After seeing the final result, the stables resounded with huge sighs, no matter what item of betting, it’s always the case that more losers win less, and that sighs overpowered the cheers in the stables was the best proof of that.

“Horse number three won the first place, horse number six won the second place, horse number seven won the third place, congratulations, please ask the jockey to bring the horse to the routine inspection!”

The official broadcast also rang out, urging the jockeys to bring their horses to the inspection, only after the inspection had been carried out would the result be considered real and valid.

“Haha, my horse won, my horse won!”

After the broadcast rang out, cheers suddenly erupted from the group of anxiously waiting horse owners, and three or four of them jumped up excitedly at the same time, hugging each other there.

The surrounding ten or so horse owners, on the other hand, were looking at those few people with envious eyes, knowing that winning first place in this kind of horse racing convention not only represented honor, but also extremely lucrative rewards.

You know, each race, there is a corresponding prize pool, the prize pool of the prize money, all by the winning horses, and as the first place in the race, in general, will get the prize pool of about sixty to seventy percent of the prize money.

Like this mat race, the total prize money is nine hundred thousand Hong Kong dollars, if calculated according to seventy percent, the owner of the horse just now, will get six hundred and thirty thousand Hong Kong dollars, for those who are not rich horse owners, this is already considered to be a considerable amount of money.

And according to the rules, the HK$630,000 will all go to the owner alone, but of course, under normal circumstances, the owner will only get 70%, while the trainer, jockey and stable staff will get the remaining 30%.

As for the back of the race, of course, there is also a bonus, but according to the rules of the Macau Jockey Club, for races with more than ten horses, only the top five can get a bonus, and the bonus is also the remaining 30%, which is simply not comparable to the first place.

So the few horse owners who won the second and third places, although their faces also carried joyful colors, they were far less happy than the first place, and were also looking at those few people who were celebrating with envious gazes, just like the bystanders.

“Mr. Chen, those few people, why are they all horse owners?”

Zhuang Rui was a bit puzzled, he could understand some Cantonese, and with the closer distance, he heard that those people were celebrating and seemed to be calculating some kind of prize distribution.

Chen Xiaojun glanced at those people and said with a smile, “Oh, you mean them? A few of them purchased the racehorse together, not to mention, these few people are lucky, and the horses they bought are also very competitive, winning several times over the top horse.”

“Khan, that’s okay?”

After hearing Chen Xiaojun’s explanation, Zhuang Rui realized, dare to say that now in Hong Kong and Macau, there are quite a lot of white-collar people, also began to use the form of clubs to participate in the purchase of horses, and then go to participate in various races, win prizes according to the shares of dividends.

Now a slightly ordinary racehorse, the price between 100,000 to half a million, and if it is a thoroughbred horse, it will have to be more than a million Hong Kong dollars, these horse owners can not afford to be alone, they thought of this approach.

As long as the horse is properly tamed and can participate in more races, the cost of a racehorse can actually be almost earned back in one season, and this has given rise to a number of small equestrian clubs.

The existence of such small clubs has greatly facilitated the development of horse racing in Hong Kong and Macao. On a certain level, the behavior of these small horse owners is what really supports the foundation of horse racing in Hong Kong and Macao.

Of course, under normal circumstances, they can only win these races without the participation of famous horses, like the last three races where the world’s most famous horses are gathered, it’s not something they can get their hands on at all, even if they participate in it, it’s just to end up as a dusty bottom.

After explaining some of the operations of the pony owners to Zhuang Rui, Mr. Chen looked at his watch and spoke, “Mr. Zhuang, it’s going to be your racehorse’s turn to race soon, and now you have to bring it over to be weighed first.”

The interval between each race was around thirty to fifty minutes, so after the last race, the horses competing below must immediately need to be prepared.

“Good, let’s go over here.”

Zhuang Rui nodded and casually asked while walking, “Mr. Chen, what is the total prize money for this second race?”

“The second race is not a mat race, there are four horses from Europe that have won speed horse races before, so the prize money is also much higher, a total of twelve million Hong Kong dollars.”

“So much ah?”

Zhuang Rui didn’t expect that this could also be quite a lot of money from inside the racecourse, seventy percent of twelve million, that would be more than eight million.

“Hehe, there is consideration on the part of the horse club, to drive up the emotions of the horse fans!”

Chen Xiaojun smiled at his words, a total of twelve races, in the front also need to have a few high amount of races, in order to make the horse fans more engaged, of course, the most generous prize money race, or the last three.

“Zhuang Ruian answer, you’re finally here, this person is talking, I can’t understand ah!”

Just walked to the stable there, Zhuang Rui was pulled by Timur, next to it stood a staff of the stable, was sweating gesticulating and communicating with Timur.

“Oh, Timur Anta, he is shouting for you to go out and compete.”

Zhuang Rui smiled and whistled from his mouth, Chasing Wind immediately trotted out from the stables and followed behind Zhuang Rui.

“Man, this time it’s all up to you, fuck them all over, haha ……”

Zhuang Rui doted on Chasing Wind’s neck, looked to Timur and said, “Timur big brother, this time, when you return to Inner Mongolia, you will be a millionaire at least!”

“What millionaire? Zhuang Rui An Answer, I’m doing my brother a favor, I don’t want you to give me money.”

Timur was Zhuang Rui said some puzzled, he knows Zhuang Rui has money, but with his character, to help his brother race a horse but also collect money, it is too unorthodox.

“Let’s talk about this later, let’s go! Any later and it will be too late to weigh in.”

Zhuang Rui didn’t say much and brought Chasing Wind and Timur to the weighing place that was very close to the starting point, and since they came late, there were a few horses and people in front of them being weighed.

“There’s still a lot going on.”

When it was Timur’s turn, this Mongolian man muttered a sentence, in their Inner Mongolia, on New Year’s festivals are also organized horse races, where there are so many rules ah! Ride up to win on the line.

“Hey, you go down, what mess ah! Do not see us busy?”

Just Timur did not expect, he just stood to the scale above, was driven down.