Qin Yong(left) and Liu San Ping(right)
The CHC China Dream Project has expanded its international footprint with the arrival of two Chinese representatives in Australia. Qin Yong and Liu San Ping, best known in China as being among the nation’s premier jockeys, will be using their industry understanding to learn more about Australia’s racing and breeding industries to take important lessons back to Ordos, Inner Mongolia where they are contributing to the growth of a racing industry and the creation of a new breeding industry.
The CHC China Dream Project promotes opportunities for talented young Chinese men and women from within the thoroughbred industry. It has previously sponsored Chinese to go overseas for racing competitions as well as sponsoring international experts to come to China to oversee training programs.
“I am very grateful to be offered this opportunity to go to Australia as part of the CHC China Dream Project. I look forward to new experiences and to learning from an established industry,” said Liu San Ping upon his arrival in Australia.
“My role here is to be a representative, to learn and to make a contribution to the emerging thoroughbred industry in China. It is exciting that I have the chance to do that. It means a lot that I have the chance to contribute with a long-range outlook [to what is happening in Ordos]. I look forward to being able to share what I will learn in Australia with my colleagues in China.”
Qin Yong(left) and Chen Li(right)
Qin Yong who, along with Chen Li, was one of two jockeys to be awards a scholarship to ride in Barbados in 2016, was unequivocal on the importance of this exercise in the future growth of industries in his homeland.
While on his scholarship, Qin Yong is believed to have become the first jockey from Mainland China to have won a thoroughbred race outside of Asia, a goal he set in a bid to motivate young aspiring Chinese riders. The effervescent Tujiazu jockey sees his current role as equally important both in helping building relations between the two thoroughbred industries and in bringing back important lessons to China’s emerging industries.
“Australia is a significant thoroughbred industry and I believe this trip will be very beneficial not only to me personally but to what we are trying to achieve in Mainland China,” he said.
“I am looking forward to experiencing a new industry, to meeting industry leaders, to experience major race meetings and to learning how the industry in China can continue to grow and realize its potential.
“Hopefully this is the first of several steps to build relationships between China and Australia. I cannot wait to experience the culture, the lifestyle and everything about the horse industry here and, looking forward, I hope to share our culture with more Australian representatives in China.”
Liu San Ping and Qin Yong at The Chase
While in Australia Liu San Ping and Qin Yong will undertake visitations to leading racing and breeding operations, experience premier racing carnivals, meet with industry leader and with Racing NSW (the governing body of thoroughbred racing in the state) representatives and will see first-hand how the China Horse Club’s facility, ‘The Chase’, is run and managed.
The duo took the opportunity to immediately immerse themselves in Australian racing by rushing from Sydney’s Kingsford-Smith Airport to watch the final races at Warwick Farm. It was a chance to take in some new sites and to reacquaint themselves with some former associates in John Thompson and Quinton Cassidy. Thompson oversaw a team of racehorses at the 2013 CECF Hohhot and has attended subsequent CECF events and Quinton Cassidy was the inaugural head trainer for the China Horse Club in China.
The CHC China Dream Project is part of the social responsibility of the China Horse Club.
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