Features

Wager on any or all of the four racetracks within the game each day.
Win, place, show, exacta, trifecta, daily double, pick 3, and pick six betting available at each racetrack.
Realistic speed ratings are generated for each horse in every race.
Easy to use betting screen.
Realistic odds are generated for each race .
Tip sheets are available for all tracks, providing helpful selections and comments.
Bettors may begin the game with as little as $500.
A "Recent Trouble" page is available, informing players of any poor racing luck in every horse's last three starts.
Bettors may apply advanced handicapping techniques such as pace analysis, breeding, trip handicapping, workouts etc.

Each race simulates the actual dynamics of a real thoroughbred horse race.
Every horse is rated in a dozen categories, including early speed, stamina and running style.
Realistic fractions and final times.
Stretch duals may be decided by horse's winning spirit or jockey's strength.
Horses may break slowly, get boxed in on the rail or run wide around the turns.
Watch standard view of race and extra wide view to track every horse's position.
Watch any or all of the thousands of races run each year.
Replay the last race to relive the excitement.
Advance to any race that day, skipping races you don't want to see.
Indicator display's distance remaining in race.
Names of the three race leaders display during a race.
Both dirt an turf racing are realistically recreated with horses showing a preference to one or the other.

Buy horses at any of the four auctions held annually.
Bid against computer owners, as well as other human players.
Evaluate young horses for sale by browsing the sales catalog before bidding.
Sales catalogs contains virtually all of information available to bidders at a real auction.
Bid on progeny of more than 300 of North America's most popular sires and broodmare sires.
Watch as retired horses within the game become the championship breeding stock of the next generation.
Play for a number of years and pedigree information will extend back three generations.
Spend the big bucks to buy proven bloodlines or take a chance on finding the bargain of a lifetime.
Select names for the yearlings that you buy, or have names randomly generated for you.
Buy proven runners at the annual auction for "horses of racing age."

Manage a stable of up to 40 thoroughbreds.
Select races for your runners to enter or allow your computer trainer to choose.
Choose from a wide variety of distances and classes when entering races.
Claim horses from other stables and try to turn them into champions.
Play for up to 40 years in an effort to become the most dominant owner in all of racing.
Learn how to read the "Condition Book" in order to maximize a horse's earnings.
Battle with other owners to become annual leader in races won or money earned.
Buy a horse with great potential and try to turn it into racing's next big star.
Select your own racing silks and watch as your horses run down the stretch wearing your colors.
Begin your stable with as little as $100,000 or as much as a cool million.
Try to build your initial bankroll using your skill as an owner and bettor.
Players may elect to begin the game with five random horses.
Choose to play with or without a monthly income.
Sell your best horses as potential breeding stock.
Ship your best horses across the country to run in major stakes races.