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[Trychineb Cysylltiadau Cyhoeddus]The Jockey Club 10.1 horse race day schoolbag presentation was bombarded. Geely Xiaolongma’s artwork was ridiculed for “referring to deer as a horse”

10.1 Jockey Club to hold “National Day Racing Day”

The Jockey Club will host the “National Horse Racing Day” on October 1, but a small “PR disaster” started before the race started: The Jockey Club’s promotional material mentioned that it will give the audience a “Trendy Backpack” that comes in. Sha Tin Un Racecourse, first come, first served. Although the Jockey Club said the gift was a “backpack”, horse fans and netizens have always called it a school bag: for many superstitious gamblers, “book” means “lost”, which is quite unlucky .

Nevertheless, after looking at the Jockey Club website, the registration for the above prizes has also been completed. It is not clear if some spectators are superstitious, or if they exchange gifts when they are having trouble.

馬會贈送的「背包」,被指是「書包」,有「輸」之意,正中迷信賭徒的要実馬會贈送的「背包」,被指是「書包」,有「輸」之意,正中迷信賭徒的要実

The “backpack” given by the Jockey Club is said to be a “schoolbag”, which means “to lose”, and it hits the spot with superstitious gamblers.

In addition, the Jockey Club’s “National Horse Racing Day” also showed a picture of a gold and red horse, but netizens ridiculed it because the horse has “horns”, does it “refer to deer as a horse”? In fact, the Jockey Club has already declared that this is the “little dragon horse” created by artist Ma Xingwen, and the dragon horse is actually an ancient Chinese beast.

However, according to Wang Fu, a scholar of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the dragon also has the image of “rabbit eyes, horns, bull’s mouth, camel head, mirage belly, tiger paw, eagle claws, fish scales, and body snake” Therefore, it is not without reason that the outside world believes that the dragon horse above has the shape of a deer, and there is a saying that “a deer is a horse”.

And on the 25th anniversary of “7.1”, the Jockey Club has also held an exhibition “Little Dragon Horse Travel in Hong Kong” in places such as Racecourse, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, The Peak, Central Stone Street and others. places since July this year, so the little dragon horse with horns Not for the first time.