The Jockey Club will hold the “National Day Horse Racing Day” on October 1, but a small “PR disaster” broke out before the race started: The Jockey Club’s promotional material mentioned that it will give a “Trendy Backpack” to the audience entering the Sha Tin Racecourse. One, first come first served. Although the Jockey Club said that the gift is a “backpack”, it has always been called a schoolbag by horse fans and netizens: for many superstitious gamblers, “book” means “lose”, which is quite unlucky.
Nonetheless,Check the Jockey Club websitethe above-mentioned reward registration has also been completed, whether there are viewers who are not superstitious, or whether they are exchanging gifts while making trouble, it is unknown.
In addition, the Jockey Club’s “National Day Horse Racing Day” also displayed a drawing of a golden and red horse, but netizens ridiculed it as why the horse has “antlers”, is it “referring to a deer as a horse”? In fact, the Jockey Club has already stated that it is the “little dragon horse” created by the artist Ma Xingwen, and the dragon horse is actually an ancient Chinese beast.
However, according to Wang Fu, a scholar of the Eastern Han DynastystatementThe dragon also has the image of “rabbit eyes, antlers, bull’s mouth, camel’s head, mirage’s belly, tiger’s paw, eagle’s claws, fish scales, and snake body”. It is not without reason that there is a saying that “a deer is a horse”.
On the 25th anniversary of “7.1”, the Jockey Club has also held the “Little Dragon Horse Tour Hong Kong” in places such as Racecourse, Tai Kwun, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, The Peak, and Stone Street in Central since July this year.exhibitionso the little dragon horse with antlers is not the first appearance.
