From Xinhua News Agency. The seventh Wuhan international horse racing festival will be held in central China's Wuhan city in November this year, the local government said on Wednesday.
Equestrians from seven districts and countries, including Japan, Germany, Hong Kong and Macao of China, and 21 teams from Chinese mainland will attend this first-class horse race pageant of the country from November 6, said Zhou Yuan, deputy Secretary General of Wuhan Municipal government at a press conference.
During the three-day festival, six big horse races will be staged at Wuhan Orient Lucky City with the biggest race course in Chinese mainland.
As a sport event and entertainment, horse racing first thrived in Wuhan, capital city of Central China's Hubei Province in early 1900s, after foreign and Chinese businessmen built up the country's top three race courses in the city.
The sport was banned on the Chinese mainland in 1949. It reappeared in the early 1990s after national races were organized and jockey clubs set up in southern coastal cities.
Operated from 2003, the Orient Lucky City covers more than one million square meters and is currently the biggest horse breeding base in the country where 2,000 horses are raised. The race course seats 30,000 spectators. The previous six editions of the horse racing festivals in Wuhan attracted thousands of spectators.
Note: Richman’s Racing facilities at The Royal Nanjing Jockey Club in Nanjing (RNJC) is currently being developed on 72 million square feet of man made forest that serves as both an international and domestic eco tourism destination.
Equestrians from seven districts and countries, including Japan, Germany, Hong Kong and Macao of China, and 21 teams from Chinese mainland will attend this first-class horse race pageant of the country from November 6, said Zhou Yuan, deputy Secretary General of Wuhan Municipal government at a press conference.
During the three-day festival, six big horse races will be staged at Wuhan Orient Lucky City with the biggest race course in Chinese mainland.
As a sport event and entertainment, horse racing first thrived in Wuhan, capital city of Central China's Hubei Province in early 1900s, after foreign and Chinese businessmen built up the country's top three race courses in the city.
The sport was banned on the Chinese mainland in 1949. It reappeared in the early 1990s after national races were organized and jockey clubs set up in southern coastal cities.
Operated from 2003, the Orient Lucky City covers more than one million square meters and is currently the biggest horse breeding base in the country where 2,000 horses are raised. The race course seats 30,000 spectators. The previous six editions of the horse racing festivals in Wuhan attracted thousands of spectators.
Note: Richman’s Racing facilities at The Royal Nanjing Jockey Club in Nanjing (RNJC) is currently being developed on 72 million square feet of man made forest that serves as both an international and domestic eco tourism destination.
Once completed RNJC is expected to be China’s largest international standard horse racing facility in China - complete with stud farms, jocky training facilities, a comprehensive equestrian hospital etc.
Please direct all enquiries to Dr ASJ Johan by email to richmansracing@gmail.com
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