Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 853 Chapter 851 It's not easy to take advantage

For Chu Xiangqian, buying seven or eight Arabian horses would only take him two or three days to acquire, but for horse lovers, that would be seven or eight million US dollars.

Not to mention Alice who was only 13 years old, even if it was her biological father Philip, if he wanted to take out such a large sum of money, he would basically empty out the cash he had.

It’s even hard to say whether Philips has that much cash.

This guy looks like a prince, but actually he has no real power at all.

The annual salary he receives from the royal family is only 25 pounds.

If you want to go out and have fun, you have to carefully calculate whether your expenses exceed your budget.

Even though Philip has made more extra money every year because of Chu Xiangqian in recent years, the frequency and quality of his outings have also increased, and his expenses have of course increased.

I can't save much money.

So when Philip saw Alice's expression asking for help, he subconsciously wanted to retreat.

Fortunately, this guy is still quite smart.

Since Chu Xiangqian has said that he is asking people to find a suitable horse for the competition, why not just be thick-skinned and ask Chu Xiangqian for sponsorship.

She walked to Chu Xiangqian with a smile, took his arm and walked aside and whispered.

"Stark, you know my situation. I don't have that much money to buy so many horses, let alone just one or two."

Chu Xiangqian actually didn't mind taking out a few more horses from the Novice Village stable and giving them to Alice to train as training and riding horses.

But Philip might really have no money, but there was no way the royal family could not afford to buy eight Arabian horses.

It's just an attempt to take advantage.

In other words, Philip doesn't like horses other than those used in speed races, like those used in equestrian competitions.

I even think that even if the horse wins the championship, only the value of one horse will increase greatly, and I won't lose money if I buy the other seven horses.

But it will also consume a lot of cash, which is not a good investment in Philips' eyes.

Chu Xiangqian couldn't help but feel contemptuous when he thought about it.

After a little thought, he came up with an idea. Since he had sponsored Alice, the advertisement on her chest and on the saddle would naturally belong to him when she competed in the future.

And with Alice's identity, she will definitely be sought after by many reporters in future competitions and on weekdays.

When being interviewed, he mentioned Kowloon Racecourse, Global International Shipping, and the ranch at Downton Abbey.

The advertising effect is definitely more useful than celebrities.

And the racing horse was only for Alice to use, not given to her.

In exchange for this little girl, we can get advertising promotion for this Olympics, the next one, and the one after that. It's a good deal no matter how you calculate it.

Chu Xiangqian smiled and waved to Alice. When the little girl came closer, there was a look of anticipation and uneasiness on her face.

But when Alice heard Chu Xiangqian's request, she didn't even look at her father's expression and nodded without hesitation.

Charles standing by was unhappy.

At this time, the royal family still followed the tradition of low-key and mystery, rarely accepted media interviews, and protected their children more strictly.

Alice was lucky enough. She was 13 years old and could still appear in the newspapers more or less.

The third prince Andre, who is only 5 years old this year, has never appeared in front of the media, let alone at major celebrations.

So Alice has more opportunities to increase her exposure, which is not a good thing for Charles.

But Chu Xiangqian didn't care about his thoughts at all. His biological father Philip just thought about it for a few seconds and soon nodded to Alice.

Alice was naturally overjoyed when she got the permission. She hugged Philip's arm and said excitedly, "I love you so much, Daddy."

Philip laughed and felt secretly proud in his heart.

He doesn't need the royal family or his biological father to provide him with horses to ride on, nor does he have to pay for training. In the future, he won't even have to pay for air transportation of horses, or for the cost of horse trainers and other staff.

Philips believes that it has saved at least tens of millions of dollars.

Such a huge investment is a huge burden even for the royal family.

As for Chu's previous requests for advertising and portrait rights, Philips felt that it would be abnormal without these conditions.

As for Charles' opinion, Chu Xiangqian didn't care, and Margaret didn't care either. Even though Philip saw that his son was unhappy, he didn't comfort him for the sake of money.

Charles is also a weak and cowardly person, and in the end he could only sulk by himself.

After the main business was discussed, it was natural to eat, chat and go to the stable to see the horses.

It was the first time for Charles and Alice to see the champion knight in this suburban manor. Moreover, one was 14 and the other was 13, which was the age group that loved to play the most.

Not only did Charles seem unable to move his eyes away, staring at the champion knight, but he also forgot about the previous unpleasantness.

Alice even had the nerve to ask her aunt Margaret to let her ride the champion knight for a few laps.

Chu Xiangqian didn't open his mouth to refuse, for fear of falling off the horse. After all, the Champion Knight was a hot-blooded horse, and not everyone could ride on its back.

But Margaret agreed directly and ordered someone to put on a saddle and other horse gear for the champion knight.

When Alice ran over cheering to get acquainted with the champion knight, Margaret turned around and saw her man frowning, and she immediately knew what he was worried about.

He smiled and grabbed Chu Xiangqian's big hand and said, "Don't worry, Alice started riding when she was six or seven years old, and her riding skills are not low.

And she, like me, is very talented in horsemanship, so just a few laps on the champion rider will be fine.”

Chu Xiangqian rolled his eyes and said, "You are my aunt, so naturally you don't have so many concerns."

So Chu Xiangqian thought about it, walked up to the champion knight, stroked the guy's neck, and whispered, "Be steady when you run later."

All animals in the Novice Village, once upgraded, become Chu Xiangqian's pets.

Although the Champion Knight didn't understand what Chu Xiangqian said, he could sense what his master meant. He shook his head a few times to indicate that he understood.

When Alice got on the horse, although the champion knight's speed was not slow, Alice always felt that this was not the champion knight's limit.

No, let alone the limit, it may not even be considered as full strength.

He urged the champion knight to run faster several times, but Chu Xiangqian told him to run steadily, so it was naturally impossible for him to run fast.

After a few laps, although Alice was in a good mood, she pouted and complained to Margaret, "Maybe it's because I haven't participated in the competition for a long time, so I feel that my speed is obviously slower than when I won the Triple Crown."

Margaret also felt that the champion knight was not running very fast today, and she couldn't help but worriedly asked the horse trainer to ask a veterinarian to come and take a look.

Chu Xiangqian knew the reason, but after thinking about it, he didn't say it. He pretended to be worried and watched the veterinarian and horse trainer carefully examine the champion knight.

After working for more than two hours, I finally determined that his condition was not good, so I was no longer willing to run.

Only then did everyone feel relieved.

But in this way, Philip, Charles and Alice didn't have much time to pay attention to other horses.

After lunch, the father and his two sons said goodbye.
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A week passed unknowingly. Chu Xiangqian said a few words to Margaret last night and left the manor alone.

The next morning, next to Margaret's manor, in the small ranch that Chu Xiangqian bought four years ago, 4 Arabian horses with a shoulder height of at least 16 meters, long limbs, strong bodies, and shiny hair arrived.

In addition, in recent years, Chu Xiangqian has been raising dozens of big and small horses on this ranch, which has become the largest breeding base for horses in England. Unfortunately, the foals bred in recent years are just like the horses from Central Asia, with most of their three-dimensional attributes being ordinary.

It can only be used as a riding horse, or to trick outsiders into buying it as a stud horse.

Fortunately, the Arabian horse is now quite popular. Even if it is just used as a stud, there are people willing to pay a high price to buy it.

A few days ago, the news of the auction in Hong Kong Island reached London, and the price of a Arabian horse stallion had been hyped up to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Of course, very few people are actually willing to buy.

Similarly, there are fewer Arabian horses appearing in the market.

So sometimes you can’t buy it even if you have money, which is why the price of the Arabian horse remains high.

Otherwise, perhaps just like a thoroughbred horse, a slightly better stallion can be bought for tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.

As soon as the 16 horses were settled and completed their physical examinations, Philip came with Charles and Alice.

Moreover, not long after the father and his two sons arrived, Norton also hurried over.

When the four guys saw the new Arabian horse, they couldn't take their eyes off it.

In fact, these horses, just by looking at their size, are definitely better than the horses Chu Xiangqian had sold before.

The shortest shoulder height is 1 meters, and the tallest is over 57 meters.

It is only slightly shorter than a thoroughbred horse.

Being tall and long gives them a great advantage in show jumping competitions.

Of course, if placed on the racetrack, these 1.5 horses with a strength of 1.5, a physique of 1.4, and an agility of 1.5/16 are indeed not the fastest.

But when it comes to show jumping and cross-country endurance races, these horses are definitely top-notch horses.

As for dressage, it really can only be achieved through training and developing tacit understanding.

Also because their physique and strength are both 1.5, the shoulder height of these horses is indeed a few centimeters higher than that of normal Arabian horses.

That's why people think these horses are incredibly beautiful.

Margaret, who had always been sticking to Chu Xiangqian, held Chu Xiangqian's arm tightly and kept begging him to give her all the horses as gifts for her pregnancy and childbirth.

After hearing this, Chu Xiangqian rolled his eyes at the girl. Although these 16 horses were not the most agile, they were not the best.

But they are strong, have good physiques, are tall and have long legs, so the span of each step they take is no smaller than that of a thoroughbred horse. For this reason alone, these horses will perform well.

From Chu Xiangqian's perspective, if it were put on the auction, it would definitely attract more attention than the 40 Arabian horses auctioned this year.

The auction price will definitely exceed this year's average auction price. Not to mention 100 million, 120 million US dollars will be no problem at all.

Of course, when it comes to real speed racing, it is difficult to compare the results with the top thoroughbred horses.

However, not all horse owners only care about speed. Many horse owners actually care more about the appearance of the horse.

As long as you have good grades and good looks, you will be very popular.

Just like a good-looking Olympic athlete, even if she didn’t win the championship, she is more popular than the champion in the eyes of the audience.

So no matter how Margaret begged him, Chu Xiangqian just kept silent and gave all the horses to her.

Norton couldn't help but look delighted when he saw this.

This guy has been eyeing a chestnut-colored Arabian horse with a shoulder height of 1 meters.

Ignoring the presence of Margaret, her aunt with dragon attributes, she walked up to Chu Xiangqian and said with a pleading tone.

"Master, I'll trade that chestnut horse for a Chinese antique worth $150 million. How about that?"

After hearing this, Margaret glared at Norton angrily.

Unfortunately, this boy was so thick-skinned that he pretended not to see Margaret's expression and waited for Chu Xiangqian's answer.

Chu Xiangqian has not been with Margaret all these days.

On the third day after returning to the suburban estate, McDonald came to the door impatiently.

After giving Margaret a gift and chatting with her for more than ten minutes, he took Chu Xiangqian to a horse farm hundreds of kilometers away.

I looked at a dozen thoroughbred horses.

It was very easy for Chu Xiangqian to identify horses.

He led the horse into an independent stable and drove away the people around him, using the excuse that his unique horse-judging skills would not be passed on to others, and he even refused to let anyone see them.

This disappointed McDonald and the team of horse trainers he hired.

Don't make your intention to learn secretly too obvious.

Chu Xiangqian would not care about what those horse trainers thought.

He asked the titmouse, stingray and green mamba to act as spies and make sure that no one was peeking or eavesdropping in the private stable, and then he led the horse into the Novice Village.

It only takes a few seconds to return to the real world.

But this period of time was enough for Chu Xiangqian to see the three-dimensional attributes of the horse and judge whether it was good or bad.

After looking at more than a dozen horses, Chu Xiangqian immediately guessed that these horses were definitely good horses carefully selected.

Otherwise, the three-dimensional attributes will not be the lowest attribute, all of which are 1.3.

There is a group of purebred horses whose agility is 1.7, which is the most agile horse Chu Xiangqian has ever seen in the real world.

As for physique 1.3 and strength 1.4, they are also very good.

This is enough to support the horse so that it will not show a noticeable decline in physical strength in the second half of a 2-meter race, or even be unable to run.

After Chu Xiangqian saw it, he wanted to buy it.

But if you think about it, McDonald will never sell it.

Then Chu Xiangqian decided not to reveal the horse's true talent. Fortunately, this thought only lasted for a moment before he rejected it.

If he won a championship, even if it wasn't the Triple Crown, it would mean that McDonald would compensate him with a national treasure.

So after Chu Xiangqian led the horse out of the independent stable, he pulled McDonald and muttered to him for a while.

Tell this guy again and again that this horse has an excellent talent for speed.

The only weakness is that the horse may not have enough physical strength to run a race of more than 2 meters.

The first leg of the English Triple Crown is only 1600 meters. If Chu Xiangqian is right, there is a good chance of winning the first leg.

The second leg of the 2400-meter race is also worth a try.

As for the third 2800-meter race, there was basically no chance of winning, and there was no need to even participate in this race.

But Chu Xiangqian knew that no matter how much he said, McDonald would not give up.

(End of this chapter)