Gathering speed

After a long period of uncertainty, horse racing seems to be hitting its stride in China. Wang Kaihao reports from Ordos, Inner Mongolia.

When British equine industry veteran John Warren joined the advisory council of the China Horse Club in 2013, he faced plenty of doubts from his countrymen.

Even he once wondered whether the eagerness to develop the thoroughbred race industry in the Chinese mainland would "last for five minutes and disappear".