Super Zoo

Chapter 412 Equestrian Club?

Suming was training Da Kuaihuo and Shibaolong with Tony on a large grassland in the Yangchuan City Zoo. Tony now had dual roles, Suming's private jet technician, and horse trainer. He spent most of his time staying at the zoo, living with Liang Shi and Mr. Peng in the Mingqing Residence.

It could be said that Shuomingqing Residence was practically turning into staff dormitories, with Su Desheng, who led the construction team, sometimes borrowing a bed after work. Nangong Huang had long since moved in: Whisperwind Pavilion was under construction and not suitable for living.

After all, Da Kuaihuo and Shibaolong were racehorses. Cultivating a group of good racehorses was not a simple matter of free-range care. It was not enough to just give them freedom, much like athletes, who must have professional coaches, professional training, and even personalized diet plans. If the two horses were left to their own ways, not to mention improvement, it would be difficult to even maintain their current level. They would be waiting to grow fat and flabby.

In fact, after just a month of living freely, these two rogues had already started to put on weight.

Ever since the second brother and Pig Old Two, the reserve mounts, were taken back to the zoo by Suming and let loose on the back mountain, the two horses became reluctant to play with the alpacas.

When animals make friends, in some respects, it is similar to humans' friendships based on matching social statuses. Perhaps feeling that the alpacas were too low-end and not in the same league as 'mounts,' Da Kuaihuo and Shibaolong became good friends with two wild boars instead.@@@@

Although the wild boars were spare mounts, they were still part of the mount ranks, after all. Playing with them didn't seem to lower their status too much.

Playing with the alpacas, the two racehorses learned how to spit water, which wasn't too bad; it just made them seem a bit roguish. But as the saying goes, you become like those you associate with. The two hefty horses followed the wild boars around the back mountain all day, eating nonstop from morning to night.

Worse yet, the boars had exceptionally keen noses, able to root out food buried underground. With the back mountain rich in resources, it was virtually a food warehouse. Every day, the boars would lead the way searching for food, with the two horses following behind to snack as they went.

Watching the two formerly majestic purebred racehorses evolve towards becoming 'enhanced version' big pigs, Tony was deeply troubled.

As Suming's private horse trainer, Tony approached Suming with the suggestion to take the two horses back to the Xiangjiang Jockey Club for training.

Originally, Suming had indeed planned it this way, to let the two horses play in the zoo for a while, then send them back to the club for training.

The sport of horse riding has not become widespread in the country, with high membership fees and certain risks involved in the sport, all of which greatly limit the promotion of riding clubs, even the state has not taken any special measures to promote this activity.

There is a professional horse farm in the suburbs of Yangchuan City, owned by someone from Xiangjiang, who knows Wang Jian She. It's said that when the farm was first established, they invested over eight million at once, with annual expenses of over a million, yet the profit model is very limited, relying mostly on a membership system, with the highest level of VIP membership fee being only twelve thousand. On average, they only gain thirty to forty new members a year, and members continuously drop out, unable to make a profit.

Fortunately, that owner has other profitable main businesses, and running the horse farm is purely a personal interest.

This is the realistic situation of horse farms in the country, including in super-large cities such as Beijing-Shanghai-Guangzhou, where equestrian clubs rarely make a profit and are wholly dependent on subsidies from the owners' main businesses to continue operating.

Suming had specially asked Wang Hao to help compile statistics that those willing to pay for an annual membership at the Horse Club had personal annual incomes of at least three hundred thousand, and if it were a family, the total family income would generally exceed one million. Such people are not uncommon in Yangchuan City, but among them, those who are passionate about horse riding are extremely rare.

With a small target audience and low popularization, setting up an equestrian club now doesn't seem to have much of a future.

However, not setting one up now doesn't mean it will never happen. The zoo is planning to become a large tourist area, and having a professional horse farm would add to its appeal.

Suming was pondering over the grand blueprint for the future when his phone rang—it was Mrs. Tong calling.

"Director, where are you? Hurry up and check online, that Little Overlord is causing trouble on Weibo again!" Mrs. Tong said urgently.

"This is never going to end, is it!" Suming exclaimed in anger.

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I must say a word: The college entrance exam has started, and the high school entrance exam is approaching. I hope that friends who are in these two stages focus on your exams! I wish you good results... Anyway, I've never done well myself, so my hopes are pinned on you~~~