Super Zoo

Su Ming and Tony were training Happy and Lion Dragon on a large lawn in the zoo. Tony now has two jobs. Su Ming's aircraft technician and horse trainer, most of the time he stayed in Yangchuan Zoo, and lived in Mingqing Residence with Liang Shi and Master Peng.

Mingqing Residence is about to be converted into a staff dormitory. Uncle Su Desheng, who leads the construction team, sometimes borrows a bed after work. Nangong Huang has moved in a long time ago: Tingfeng Pavilion is under construction all day and cannot be lived in.

Happy and Lion Dragon are racehorses after all. If you want to train a group of racehorses, it is not a simple free-range, giving them freedom. Just like athletes, they must have professional coaches, professional training, and even customized diets. If the two horses are allowed to do whatever they want, it will be difficult to maintain the current level, not to mention improvement. Just wait for them to get fat.

In fact, after just one month of free life, these two guys have begun to gain weight.

Ever since the two reserve mounts, Second Senior Brother and Second Pig, were taken back to the zoo by Su Ming and released in the back mountain, the two horses were reluctant to play with the alpacas.

In some ways, animals making friends is similar to humans, and they emphasize a good match. Perhaps because they felt that the alpacas were too low-end and not on the same level as "mounts", Da Kuai Huo and Shi Bao Long turned to become good friends with the two wild boars.

Although wild boars are spare mounts, they are still considered mounts after all, and playing with them does not lower their status too much.

Playing with the alpacas, the two racehorses learned the skill of spitting saliva, which is nothing, it just makes them look a bit rogue. But the closer you are to the red, the redder you are, and the closer you are to the wild boar, the greedier you are. The two horses followed the two wild boars around the back mountain all day, eating non-stop from morning to night.

It just so happens that the wild boar's nose is very sharp, and it can dig out the food buried in the soil. The resources in the back mountain are rich, which is simply a large food warehouse. All day long, the wild boar is looking for food in front, and the two horses follow behind to eat, eating as they go.

Tony was heartbroken to see that the two purebred racehorses, which were once extraordinary, were developing in the direction of "enhanced" big pigs.

As Su Ming's personal horse trainer, Tony found Su Ming and proposed to take the two horses back to the Hong Kong Jockey Club for training.

Originally, Su Ming did arrange it this way, letting the two horses play in the zoo for a while, and then sending them back to the Jockey Club for training.

However, now the two horses are wild and don't seem to want to go back. And the horse owners, Su Ming and Nangong Yan, are reluctant to let them go.

Which Chinese man didn't have the dream of a wild horse singing when he was a child? Which Chinese woman didn't fantasize about a prince riding a white horse one day?

If the traffic rules did not allow it, Su Ming would have wanted to use the lion burger to replace the wrangler. With a real horse, why would he need a fake wrangler? Even if he could not ride on the street, he would sneak around the ring road every few nights.

As for whether he could win a place in the competition in the future and whether he could earn a prize, Su Ming did not think too much about it. But what Tony said made sense. He could not just watch these two horses turn into super fat pigs.

Fortunately, the zoo has a lot of empty space. About one-third of the entire park is a viewing area, with large tracts of woods and grassland. Su Ming simply marked out a grassland of about 20 acres, surrounded it with fences, and used it as a horse training ground. He also built two horse sheds for Tony to train horses here. Da Kuai Huo and Lion burger finally have a proper home.

The grass was slightly modified. The inner circle was still a lawn, with several rows of wooden fences of different heights and shapes. The outer circle was weeded and covered with sand to form a circular track.

The horses grew fatter, but they were not lazy. They were born with the blood of sports flowing in their veins, and they quickly adapted to the training life. Da Kuai Huo gracefully paced in the inner circle and conducted obstacle training; Shi Bao Long was more unrestrained and ran wildly around the outer track.

The two horses trained here, attracting many tourists, who lay on the surrounding fences and watched with great interest.

Someone who often came to the zoo knew Su Ming. Seeing that Su Ming was there, he went up and greeted him with a smile and asked Su Ming if the zoo was going to set up an equestrian club.

"Not for the time being." Su Ming said.

When he created the "Riding Fish" project, he asked Wang Hao to help order a batch of "saddles". Wang Hao thought he was going to run a horse farm and specifically advised him to give up this idea.

Equestrianism is an elegant sport, a gentleman's sport, and a pretentious sport, but it also means that it is a "very expensive" sport. Unlike those scenic spots where you can take photos while riding a horse, or take a few steps on an old horse, the investment of a truly high-end horse farm is calculated in tens of millions, including renting venues, purchasing racehorses, hiring professional jockeys, and the annual maintenance costs are also frighteningly high.

The opposite of high investment is low return.

Horse riding is not popular in China. The high annual membership fee and the certain risks of the sport have greatly restricted the promotion of horse farms. Even the country has not specifically promoted this sport.

There is a professional horse farm in the suburbs of Yangchuan City. The owner is from Hong Kong and knows Wang Jianshe. It is said that when the horse farm was first established, more than 8 million yuan was invested at one time, and there are still millions of yuan in expenses every year, but the profit model is very simple, basically relying on the membership system. The highest-level annual fee VIP membership is only 12,000 yuan. There are only an average of 30 to 40 new members every year, and members continue to withdraw, so there is no profit at all.

Fortunately, the boss has other profitable main businesses, and opening a horse farm is purely a personal interest.

This is also a realistic description of the current situation of domestic horse farms. In super cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, equestrian clubs rarely make profits, and they can only operate with subsidies from the boss's main business.

Su Ming also specially asked Wang Hao to help count that those who are willing to pay annual membership fees in the Jockey Club have an annual income of at least 300,000 yuan. If it is a family, the annual income of the whole family basically exceeds one million. There are not a few such people in Yangchuan City, but those who love riding are rare.

The audience base is small and the popularity rate is low. There is basically no future for running an equestrian club now.

However, not running it now does not mean not running it in the future. The zoo is preparing to build it into a large tourist area. Having a professional horse farm will add a lot of color.

Su Ming was considering the grand blueprint for the future when the phone rang. It was Sister Tong who called.

"Director, where are you? Go online and check it out. That little bully is scolding on Weibo again!" Sister Tong said anxiously.

"This is endless!" Su Ming was furious.

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I have to say: the college entrance examination has begun, and the high school entrance examination is coming soon. I hope that the readers in these two stages will focus on the exams! I wish you good grades... Anyway, my grades have never been good, so I can only pin my hopes on you~~~