Alpine pasture

Chapter 118 The Racecourse

After leaving the hotel, I took a taxi and asked the driver to take me to the racetrack. After a while, the driver took Ju An to the nearest racecourse, and got out of the car to have a look.There seem to be not as many people as I imagined. A small light green house with a dozen windows open at the door is the betting shop of the racetrack. The crowd in twos and threes does not have the momentum of the second largest sports in the United States. It is sparse. Heaps of them wobbled toward the inside.

Ju An didn't plan to go betting on the horses, so he followed the crowd and walked directly to the racetrack. When he was almost at the gate, he realized that there were people checking the tickets at the gate. Didn't it mean that the racecourse is free to enter? The leader came and asked a black uncle behind him.

Ju An smiled at the black uncle and said, "I'm sorry! Didn't you say that the racecourse is open for free? Why are there people checking the tickets?"

After hearing this, the black uncle smiled and replied: "Hey! Boy, it's the first time to watch a horse race. The racecourse is free, but you have to go to the gate to buy a betting slip to enter. The cheapest one is seven dollars, which is quite It's about the tickets." After speaking, he patted Ju An's arm in a friendly manner, and pointed in the direction of the betting shop.

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

I bought a cup of Coke at the window inside, and found a seat to sit down while drinking. When I was looking for a seat, Ju An struggled a little. The front seat was close to the track, but I couldn’t see the whole lap of the track. It was exposed to the rocky valley, and the seats in the back could see the shed with shade, but they couldn't see the horse racing clearly, which was a struggle for his uncle.

In the end, Ju An had no choice but to face the scorching sun and find a seat in front, watch the horse race first, and then go up to hide from the sun later.

There is a long monitor on the inside of the track, which shows the number of today's races, and there is a larger monitor next to it, which broadcasts images of the racecourse from time to time.

As soon as Ju An sat down, he saw an old man wearing a hat and holding a trumpet in his hand. He came to the middle of the driveway and began to blow the trumpet.

Then, from the door opening not far away, race horses were led out, and a jockey squatted on each horse's back. The jockeys were not tall, and they were small and short squatting on the horse The tall horse looks like a big horse monkey. Ju An just wants to laugh, but it is understandable. After all, it is a speed race. The jockey on the horse is tall and good-looking. ah.

Lifting his head, he saw a big pick-up truck dragging a long starting fence into the track on one side of the field, and the horses were pushed into the starting fence. After all the horses entered the starting fence, the gate suddenly opened. When it was opened, horses rushed out immediately, galloping past Ju An in the blink of an eye, the speed surprised Ju An, even the hand holding the water glass stopped in mid-air, and then I heard people around me constantly shouting the numbers on the horses, cheering the horses on.

Seeing that the horses had rounded the curve, the situation of each horse was unclear due to the viewing angle. Fortunately, the situation of the horses on the other side of the track was shown on the large monitor. Ju An saw a black horse And the jockey on his back was almost two positions ahead of the second horse.In less than a minute, the leading black horse turned around the curve, and now it was the final sprint stage. Behind the black horse, a maroon horse was catching up, and the speed was getting faster and faster, waiting to cross the finish line At that time, Ju An didn't even see which horse ran first. Only after looking at the rankings on the monitor did he know that the maroon horse finally surpassed the black horse. The slow motion on the monitor showed that the maroon horse was only ahead of the black horse. A head's distance away.

Then I heard someone cheering, someone scolding, it was messy, Ju An picked up the Coke, walked towards the back row, and found a seat with a good view to watch the next scene.

The stands above were deserted and there were not many people, but there were a lot of vacant seats. Ju An just found a seat and sat down, then drank the Coke in his hand, waited for the start of the next game, and watched the big screen. There were still more than 20 minutes left in the game, so Ju An turned his head and looked around boredly.

Others were chatting in small groups, only Ju An sat on the stand and turned his head to look around, which made him stand out. After looking around for a while, an old man with white beard walked over , said to Ju An: "Hey! Young man, come to the racetrack for the first time."

Ju An saw the old man dressed up as a farmer in jeans and a cowboy hat, and said with a smile: "It's the first time I went to the racetrack to watch a race, and everything felt new, so I looked around."

The old man smiled and said, "Do you mind if I sit next to you?"Seeing Ju An nodded with a smile, the old man sat down next to Ju An and said to Ju An: "Generally, the Asian faces who come here are in groups of tourist groups, and you look very lonely by yourself. Especially, come and talk."

Ju An replied with a smile: "I'm not here for tourism. I have a ranch myself. I'm more interested in horses, so I came to have a look. I also raised dozens of quarts myself."

The old man was surprised when he heard that: "That's really rare. My name is Brad. I'm a horse farmer. I live in the suburbs of Los Angeles. I have raised some thoroughbred horses and some horses in custody. Today one of my horses A three-year-old pony is coming to race, that's my baby."

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

Brad interjected: "It's good to use quarters on pastures. Quarters still have a small advantage in the quarter mile. If they're longer, they won't be able to outrun thoroughbred horses. Thoroughbred horses are usually used in racecourse races." world".

Ju An nodded and said: "Just now I looked at the front, and the horses seemed to pass by in front of me. It was too fast. I wanted to get a thoroughbred horse to raise it."

Brad said with a smile: "It takes a lot of time and money to raise a thoroughbred horse. Let alone the price of a horse, just the daily maintenance cost. Thoroughbred horses are too delicate. Every day is just feed The money is close to one hundred dollars, and this is still an ordinary time. During the race, it costs three hundred dollars a day. Not to mention anything else, the bandages on the horse's feet in each race cost tens of dollars, and the skin of the thoroughbred horse is very Thin, just like people, a mosquito bite is a big bag, you have to wear mosquito-proof clothing at night, and you have to swim several kilometers in the pool every day.”

"It costs so much money?" Ju An asked in surprise, it was much higher than his daily food expenses, and he was not as nourished as a horse after living most of his life.

"Of course, if you just want to raise a thoroughbred horse for fun, you don't need such good maintenance, but if you want your horse to race, it must be maintained like this. My ranch relies on reproduction most of the time It is too expensive to maintain a pony and foster horses for others, but if your horse can win the championship, its value will increase several times immediately, and the prize money for the three major championships every year is also several million , The Breeders' Cup has a maximum prize of 500 million," Brad said, looking at the field.

Ju An nodded with a smile and said: "This is a good business! It seems that I also want to get some pureblood horses for fun." After speaking, he touched the beads on his neck naturally.

After hearing 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 1 thoroughbred horses are born every year. Not even one, and the offspring of the champion stallion went to the auction as soon as they were born and weaned. The price is at least 20 US dollars, and the breeding of a champion stallion costs 10,000+ US dollars. Unfortunately, I have never encountered it in my life. Such a horse."

When the old man said this, Ju An was really interested. You can’t do it, and I can’t do it if you can’t explain it. Don’t we have a helper here? The space in the bead is not very powerful against adult animals, but it is very weak against developing ponies. It is likely to be useful. When the time comes, buy a few small thoroughbred horses and put them in. When they grow to three years old, they may be money printing machines.

I was dreaming a sweet dream, but was interrupted by the old man, who started to sell his horses to Ju An: "If you want to buy a horse, you can visit my horse farm, they are all good guys, today One of my horses will be in the race, that's the next one."

While the old and the young were chatting like this, the horn in the middle of the track started to sound again, and a new batch of horses were led out from the gate.

The old man pointed to a big blue horse and said to Ju An: "That's my horse, the name is Speeding Train, and the speed is very good."After speaking, he took out a telescope from his pocket, stared at it for a while, then handed the telescope to Ju An, and then pointed to the horses 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 proudly said to Ju An: "The speeding train is the fastest horse in my racecourse. This is the first time I participate in the race. I hope to get a good ranking. Of course, the champion is even better."

Returning the binoculars in the old man's hand, Ju An watched the backs of the horses push into the starting bar. As soon as the starting bar opened, the old man's horse rushed out of the train at high speed, but the speed was still not fast enough. Only grabbing the fifth seat, Ju An and the old man began to refuel the speeding train together, the old man kept muttering nervously: Hurry up!baby!You can do it, hurry up! .

After one lap of the race, the fast train got the No.2 result, and the old man seemed very happy.He even invited Ju An to watch his horses in the stables of the racetrack.

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