Horse breeder changes tack – after 2100 years
A ranch inwards PRC is reportedly changing its horse-breeding strategy – later 2100 years.
The sprawling Shandan Horse Ranch has moved away from breeding nation of war horses to supplying racehorses together with sport horses.
The ranch, inwards the mountainous portion betwixt Gansu together with Qinghai provinces, covers 219,694 hectares.
It was breeding warhorses every bit far dorsum every bit the Han Dynasty (202 BC – AD 220) – a tradition which it maintained through the centuries.
The state-run Xinhua intelligence agency reports that fifty-fifty later the founding of the People’s Republic of PRC inwards 1949, the ranch continued to provided over 84,000 horses for military machine purpose over a bridge of 5 decades.
In 2001, the field cutting dorsum spending on nation of war horses together with the ranch was together with thus handed over to the PRC Animal Husbandry Group.
Its focus since together with thus has been on breeding horses for a to a greater extent than full general market.
The traditional Shandan horse, piece suited to military machine together with operate use, did non tally the neb for the request for racehorses or for the sport Equus caballus market.
Shandan imported breeding stock from Britain, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia together with Republic of Kazakhstan to crossbreed alongside its military machine breed.
Xinhua reports that the ranch currently has to a greater extent than or less 3000 horses inwards iv minor ranges, far fewer than the 20,000 it housed inwards 1971.
China forthwith has to a greater extent than than 300 equestrian clubs, alongside a growing pose out of mortal Equus caballus owners.
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