The “sport” of racing pigeons has a strong following around the world. But with few exceptions (Absa’s founding CEO Piet Badenhorst among them) in most parts of the world it is a decidedly middle-class past-time – the poor man’s horse racing if you like. Like so much else, that’s not the case in China. In the Middle Kingdom, bird racing has attracted the attention of rich entrepreneurs, one of whom paid $320 000 to buy back his own bird at an auction this week. That lofty bid was still some way short of the record $400 000 paid last year by a Chinese businessman for the Belgian racing pigeon champion called Bolt. Not quite Holland’s Tulip Bulb Mania, nor even South Africa’s still expanding Buffalo Bubble. But not too far off.
Posted on: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 07:08:32 +0000
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