China Building Horse Race Track
Associated Press
PEKING —
Work has started on China’s first horse race track since 1949--but there will be no gambling, New China News Agency reported today.
The agency said the 7,000-seat state-run Kublai Khan Equestrian Park will open in a Peking suburb this fall, featuring horse races and polo games, horse and camel rides and riding clubs. “It will be commercial and recreational and not for gambling,” the track’s manager said. Gambling is outlawed in China.
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