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1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 22
Date: January 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I cant complain but its NOT good for people who arent good witth playing computers!!!! Waste of MONEY!! [...] Unless you LOVE horses.!!!![...]

Was it worth the money? I am not so sure

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: October 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I was soooo excited to pick up this game that I snaped it up very quickly. but even though I was impressed with the graphics I could seem to win a race(even when I bought a horse with good parent , training an health but I can never seem to win a race . I have run my horses in like 20 or 30 races and placed twice and never a 1st. It has many great features but it has made it impossible to get anywhere at all in the game.

This game is unfair!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 14
Date: January 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is unfair!You never win races ,you loose money before the year is over and before the foal is born!At least you can get 2 horses.So,I give it 1star!

Save your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: February 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is a wast of time!!!
I am a BIG horse lover but I could not find a two fun things about this game the only kind of cool thing was getting to see the babbys and they don't even show up little.
the only thing you can do is race but all you do is whip and stear your horse and it is all most inposibull to win.
so SAVE YOUR MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Game sucks..buy quarterpole plus instead

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: April 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I found nothing to like about this game but the graphics. no real handicapping info at all. I did buy quarterpole plus which is put out by action games while googling horse racing games. This is an updated version of the great but buggy HOOVES OF THUNDER racing sim. It has the bad bugs removed and is well done and more of a challenge. It is updated for windows XP. If you loved HOOVES you must get this new version. retails at 19.95.

You can not win!!!!!!!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: November 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Like one of the other reviews, great game but you cant win???
Easy and hard are the same! I got this game as a present from a friend but it had no information on how to play the game.
Can some one please tell me how to atleast come third and why does the energy level go so fast and the other horse's dont??
Please reply!

ANNOYING

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: December 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This Game is the most annoying software. The races are nearly impossible to win. Your horse is always the one that tires at the end. TOO many horses in each race. Save your money on this TURKEY!!!

A Horse Racing Management Simulator - Where Can This Go?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 16 / 17
Date: April 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Be warned: this is not your typical "tycoon" or management game, nor is it for people who only have a passing interest in horse racing. It is very dry and in depth, but you can learn a lot of things if you are willing to give it a lot of time and effort. Did I mention most of the game takes place in a planner screen?

Horse racing manager started out by surprising me - there were 3 modes of play. Betting, Racing and Stable. In Stable mode you are put in charge of managing every little nuance of the stable. In this mode you also get opportunities to bet at any races that come up as well as having the racing option. Whenever your horse is entered in a race, you have the choice of watching, going straight to the results, or racing the horse yourself. Of course the jockey you choose to sit on the horse, specifically their temperament (harsh, gentle, strict etc) has a lot to say. This is the only part of the game that has actual moving graphics. The learning curve for racing is fairly high, learning how to balance endurance and speed and positioning, as well as picking one of three things your jockey should focus on: Wind protection, whipping, and regaining energy to whip. Not to mention the days and weeks of training to help your horse have a greater chance to win. But just like real life, sometimes lady luck throws you for a spiral. A victory is never assured.

To greater or lesser extents you can manage the training, breeding, gambling, racing and management parts of the game, but only through management methods. You pick out tasks and make decisions from your planner book. You never actually get to see your horse being fed or trained nor your employees performing any of their tasks. It's all done through numbers and directions. You can buy about 6 buildings on the building map, and 3 levels of each type. A pretty boring and basic map with little points of colour and shapes where different buildings are. The various buildings increase different things such as training time, horse nutrition, fame etc. Some buildings become available only after you've built others. What you can build is also dependent on what country and stable you purchased at the beginning (difficulty level, weather conditions, types of racing etc is determined by which site you choose),

There is an amazing amount of detail that has gone into the information and numbers part of the game. This can actually get confusing and makes the learning curve even higher. The tutorial is basically one of the read and click variety which doesn't help out the difficulty. It is quite a simulator, but I am left with the feeling that it could have been more FUN somehow. The game is rather like looking at a horseracing magazine with the long lists of numbers and breeding etc, and the learning curve is high. Graphics are practically non-existent and the sound is mediocre. It is by no means a bad game, but be prepared for some seriously heavy management and lots of time to learn the game. A great idea, very dry implementation, but I hope to see more to come in this sub genre of simulators.

I'ts an okay game.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: January 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is sort of fun. You don't start out with alot of money. All the horses are worth alot of money. What I don't like about it is that you don't get to train your own horse, you only see the horse when you click on the horse button and in a race, It is also hard to race your own horse. I gotten broke 3 times in this game. It is sort of hard. But this game is okay.

It's Just OK

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: December 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

How the heck are you supposed to win in this game? I was racing and my horse gets tired VERY easily, therefore I lose everytime. I've paced myself and still got in last place. It doesn't get much better when you play as a manager. It's confusing and took me a while to understand. Now. I've played every horse sim game around and I have never been more confused with this game. It would be a lot better if you could actually have instructions and understand it!

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