On August 2, at the Tokyo Olympics equestrian triathlon, the Chinese team, with the joint efforts of Huatian, Sun Huadong and Bao Yingfeng, won the 9th place in the team competition, creating a new record for Chinese equestrian sports.
In fact, in the entertainment industry, there are also a group of crazy people who love equestrianism, among these people, there are cross-talk actor Yu Qian, rock singer Luan Shu, and singer Sha Baoliang, who is well known with "Dark Fragrance".
Cross-talk actor Yu Qian is a well-known horse fan in the industry, there is a horse farm covering an area of more than 60 acres in Daxing, Beijing, and is now committed to the promotion of youth equestrianism;
Luan Shu is "the best equestrian in the music circle, and the most able to make music in the equestrian circle". After quitting the Panthers, he won the 1997 National Games Equestrian Steeplechase Team Championship for the Beijing Team, with him as the EXECUTIVE PRESIDENT of the Xiwu Country Equestrian Club is a well-known golden sign in the Chinese equestrian world, and the Xiwu Equestrian Grand Prix he participated in is a well-known domestic equestrian event...
Smoking and drinking hot heads, but Uncle Qian's favorite is to raise horses
Yu Qian, who was jokingly called by his old partner Guo Degang, has three hobbies of "smoking, drinking and scalding his head", in fact, his biggest hobby is raising horses - "I don't ride horses, my biggest hobby is to watch them eat and eat grass." ”
Beijing grand masters Yu Qian has always liked to play with flowers, birds, fish and insects, about 2007, accidentally saw a friend's pony, thought it was fun to buy two or three breeding, did not expect to be "trapped in it". In order to raise horses, Yu Qian rented 60 acres of land in Daxing in 2010, and one rent was 30 years. When the racecourse was built, 17 short stallions were imported from Europe, the cheapest of which was 170,000 yuan a horse, and the best breeds were more than hundreds of thousands. For these precious horses, Yu Qian also hired professional trainers, and the forage fed was also airlifted from Inner Mongolia. Yu Qian recalled that the 17 horses he bought that year were very good in appearance, body shape, and muscle, and the ponies that were bred later were also very good. Later, he bought Malaysia from Xinjiang. The racecourse has also gradually gained scale.
In 2016, Yu Qian, who loves to play and can play, was introduced by friends and set foot in the field of speed horse racing. During a horse race, Yu Qian took a fancy to a green male horse, bought it immediately, and named it "Daqian World". Less than a month later, in a horse race, the "Great Humble World" rode the dust and won the first horse. "This time, I will go into the pit."
After "entering the pit", Yu Qian began to "fool" his friends to join together. In 2017, the "Daqian World Star Horse Owners Group" was announced, and its members included 10 horse owners such as Yu Qian, Ma Weidu, Wu Jing, Liu Wei, etc. "Organized to start buying horses, they bought them at once." Among these three horses, the best performance is the "Great Humble And Heroic Wind", this horse is characterized by a strong explosive force in the back, will always stage a counterattack at the last moment, won a number of domestic championships in 2018, and was rated by the industry media as one of the "10 most valuable thoroughbred horses in China in 2018".
Over the years, Yu Qian has also been committed to the promotion of youth equestrianism, and also served as the "Children's Equestrian Promotion Ambassador" of the first Beijing Equestrian Cultural Festival. Yu Qian said that at that time, his son was obsessed with computer games and mobile games every day, "I am very annoyed! Don't listen to anything. Later, I wondered if I could use these ponies to pull my son and my current child into nature and into the animals, which might be good for the child's body and mind. So, I set up a youth equestrian team, there are teenagers, there are children, I gave it a name, called the equestrian kindergarten (nursery) primary (learning) articulation."
It is precisely under Yu Qian's education that Yu Qian's second son, Yu Gengyin, although young, has achieved good results in equestrianism. In November last year, Yu Qian posted an article sharing his son's good result of winning the fourth place in the Beijing Jockey Association Youth Competition, with the text: "Hard work will not be in vain, the first equestrian competition in my life, the results are good!" ”
Yu Qian's son is also an equestrian enthusiast
Leaving the Panthers at his peak, Luan Shu turned around and won the National Games Equestrian Team Championship
Music and horses are Luan Shu's favorite.
Luan Shu recalled that he probably started riding horses in 1989. "At the beginning, I simply liked to ride a horse, faster than people, and ride everywhere up and down the mountain and the sea. In 1992 I saw the professional equestrian team training for the first time, heck, there was so much to learn, it turned out that the horse could make so many moves, and the people and horses cooperated to overcome the obstacles... The technical practice should be like this, the breeding should be like that, and all of a sudden I was caught. ”
In 1993, when the Black Panther band was in full swing, Luan Shu, who was the lead singer and keyboard of the band, suddenly made a decision - to leave the band. In an interview many years later, Luan Shu recalled that at that time, he "didn't like to stand on the stage and sing, probably because he had a horse in his heart and a concern, and ran to the horse farm as soon as the performance was over." In 1994, we decided to leave the band and set ourselves on doing our own equestrian club."
In 1997, Luan Shu represented the Beijing team in the 8th National Games held in Shanghai in October of that year. "Representing the local government in the National Games as a private club was a remarkable institutional breakthrough at the time, and later this model became a major path for the development of equestrian sports in China." For this competition, Luan Shu came to Australia alone to buy horses, find coaches to train, and stayed there for four months. With that little skill in cooking, the coach of the Australian national team was very happy and exchanged Chinese food for equestrian lessons. "At that time, I was a sponge, desperately trying to absorb knowledge, and the training notebook is still in the hands of an insider, who said he learned a lot from it."
After returning to China in September 1997, Luan Shu took a white horse named "Triumph" to Shanghai and represented the Beijing team in the equestrian competition of the 8th National Games. Although he is an amateur rider, he finished 8th in the individual steeplechase and helped Beijing win the team championship in the track steeplechase. "At that time, the Xinjiang and Tibet teams were very strong. There was only one professional rider in the whole Beijing team, and the rest were amateur riders, but in the end we won. ”
Equestrian brings happiness to Luan Shu and also brings him regret. He once recalled that he happened to be in Australia during the months when his father fell ill with liver cancer, "My mother said: you don't have to worry at home, there are your brothers and brothers, you are at ease to prepare for the game!" Not long after I returned, my father was gone. After burying my father, the horses Bought from Australia were also transported, and I rushed directly to Shanghai to compete. When I left, my mother gave me a passbook, and she knew that I had no money on me, and that it was her and my father's life savings. ”
Over the years, Luan Shu and his friends have also been committed to the promotion of domestic equestrian sports. Luan Shu himself is the executive president of the well-known Xiwu Country Equestrian Club in China, the head coach of the club Hada Tie was China's first Asian equestrian champion, and also trained many famous equestrian players such as Huatian and Huang Zuping, and the Xiwu Equestrian Grand Prix held by Xiwu in 2005-2015 for ten consecutive years is a benchmark event in the industry.
In 2019, Luan Shu and Yu Qian initiated and successfully held an equestrian competition called "2019 First China Young Maxiwu Grand Prix", which was highly praised by the industry and praised for "successfully filling the gap in China's equestrian industry in young horse racing, which is the first time in China and even in Asia".
Luan Shu's wife, YongMei, is also a horse lover
In addition to singing with acrobatics, Sha Baoliang also wanted to ride a horse to participate in the Olympic Games
With a "Dark Fragrance" well-known Sha Baoliang's life is quite legendary. He learned acrobatics from an early age and won the Gold Medal at the Future Acrobatic Festival in France in 1987. In the early 1990s, Sha Baoliang carried a guitar through major bars in Beijing and was a well-known bar singer in Beijing at that time. Until the famous musician Sampo once heard his voice on the radio, found him, and handed him "Dark Fragrance", his fate changed from then on.
Less well known is that Sha Baoliang is also an equestrian enthusiast. In the 1990s, Sha Baoliang began to ride horses in the equestrian club, and has represented the club many times with good results. In 2017, Sha Baoliang founded the Junxing Stable in Shanxi, attracting stars such as Jiang Wu, Sun Nan, Hu Jun, Xia Yu, Tan Weiwei, and Ji Kejunyi.
The fate of Sha Baoliang and Ma has to start from learning art in the acrobatic troupe. When he was about 12 years old, when Sha Baoliang was practicing in the acrobatic troupe, he saw the actors of the circus next to him riding horses, and he felt very handsome, and he pestered the other party to learn to ride a horse when there was nothing to do, "I was very happy at that time." But Sha Baoliang really started riding horses in 1997, and "inexplicably liked to get on horseback."
After falling in love with horseback riding, Sha Baoliang also had ambitions and thought it was possible to participate in the Olympic Games? "Later, I felt that my job was not suitable for desperate training, so I used it as a state of 'natural play'. I used to think I had this condition, I had this understanding, I would play very well, but riding is also a high-risk sport. "In 1997, when Sha Baoliang was traveling in Sichuan, he rode a wild horse. As a result, the hat fell off, and I wanted to turn the horse's head to pick it up, but the horse was too fast, and when the horse turned around, the horse was tripped, and the result was that the people and the horse fell, and Sha Baoliang's right collarbone was broken, and it took more than half a year to raise it.
Also a horse lover, Sha Baoliang and Yu Qian and Luan Shu are good friends. Many years ago, Sha Baoliang bought a house near luanshu's West Dock Racecourse, as long as he was not entangled in work, his first choice was to come here, reminisce with friends, go to the horse farm to ride a horse, and every once in a while his heart was empty. When performing in other places, Sha Baoliang also thinks about the horses in Beijing: "Are they sick?" Have you been okay lately? ”
Over the years, Sha Baoliang's BMW has won a number of domestic championships. Interestingly, in a horse race in 2018, Jike's elegant horse "Black Pearl" won the first place, and this horse was selected by Sha Baoliang for her.
Red Star News reporter | Qiu Junfeng
Edited by | Li Xueli
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