"Horse Racing" Topic

On a scale of 0 (no interest) to 10, what would be your level of interest in a horse racing miniatures game?

2-3.

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Been done before, Avalon hill had a game abut it. I didn't buy it then, wouldn't buy it now.

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Waddington's produced Totopoly in 1938, which covers buying horses at auction, training them and managing a stable, with a separate game portraying races. It is, in many ways, a horse-racing themed Monopoly, although probably a better simulation of the former than the latter is of property speculation.
IMHO, this game deals successfully with the administrative/financial side of managing a stable and betting on races, and the race game is fun and easy to play with the rule that makes one have to roll the exact number to cross the finish line allowing an outsider to come up and snatch the victory at the last moment, so remaining in doubt to the very end.
I don't think any game – other than a first person computer simulation – could recreate a jockey's perspective and control of his horse during a race.
So, 0 for me.

0 No interest whatever.

0, unless the jockeys carry pistols.

I remember my grandparents had a horse racing themed board game. I would look at a miniatures games out of nostalgia.

Probably a 0.

I have several dice and card sport sim games for horse racing – They're Off, The Thoroughbred Racing Game, Top of the Stretch, and Two Furlongs From Home; the latter is the only one that uses paper miniatures and is more of a stable management game with a straightforward race component added. The others (maybe not TotS, haven't played it yet) use paper tracks to trace the movement of horses, giving you a record of the race.

So I do do horse racing gaming, interest is probably a 7 or so, but there's no need for the miniatures part.

Two Hour Wargames (or maybe Rebel now) has a horse racing miniatures game, not sure if there are figures too.

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Horse Racing with Chariots, yeah!

Without Chariots, then I'm in for Velociraptor Racing. ^,^

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In a horse racing game, most of the dynamics are in things that do not get represented in the miniatures. The fun in such a game is in mastering the dynamics and using that mastery to compete. You would likely have a detailed "status card" where the game was really played and the miniatures representing only a one-dimensional part of the status.

0 unless they were connected to chariots. Then a 10!

I am a 5 on this one. Fun paint jobs. The old 3M horse race game really worked great fun.

Edit – "Win Place Show" was the name.

ditto to John

I recall (or am making it up) an article in old war game magazine about a cross country horse race by officers in 19th century. Not just around the track format.

I recall something similar too,maybe in an old MW or WI? There was a sheep herding game too, I still have the figures for it sonewhere

"Without Chariots, then I'm in for Velociraptor Racing."

Then this is just what you want link. Wagers of Sin, from Eureka – " Street urchins race savage velociraptors around the fetid sewers of Victorian London in a base travesty of the sport of kings. You can wager your ill-gotten gains on the outcome."

2.

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No interest in a game, but like betting on the real thing.

I've played and enjoyed "Camel Up"….camel racing round a pyramid therefore I guess I'm a 3

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