Horse Racing Fantasy Community

Personally, I prefer buying horse files, with which you can set up your own personal races, but you may prefer to re-run races such as the Breeder's Cup races, and maybe seeing if you can try to win with a longshot or see how often the favorite or horse that actually won wins. It's all up to personal preference.

The major difference between horse files and race files is that horse files allow you to build races, set all the conditions, pick the tracks, track surface and other parameters. Race files are exactly that - a file of a particular race - one that could be coming up, a race that actually happened, or a fantasy race we construct with champions throughout time. Race files usually contain 2 to 4 races, but the track, the contenders, and all the racing conditions are pre-set. The only thing you can do with a race file is randomize the horse's performance level. Every horse has a minimum and peak performance range. Each time you re-run a race file, you can randomize those to ensure fresh, new outcomes each time. Race files are a great way to really understand, under the same racing conditions, how your actions as a jockey will affect other horses in the race and the race outcome.

With the new version of the game being released by the end of this month, horse files you purchase will function in community mode. Currently, they do not. So, you'll actually earn points while playing with the champion horses. The catch is, if you want to race the champions in community mode to earn points, you will have to allow the computer to choose the horses. Of course, you'll be able to continue to play in private mode and have complete control over all parameters in a race, but earn no points in the community. Race files allow players to earn points only the first time they're run. You will be forced to run a race file in private mode after the initial running. The reason for this is that once a race is run, the player becomes very familiar with the setup, making it easier to earn points and jockey or bet more successfully. In the next version, people who buy race files will have a chance to earn a significant amount of bonus points if they're able to break the race record as a jockey compared to the other owners of that same file. This will be a one-time event per race file. For example, if the race file was the 2009 Kentucky Derby and the current best time for one of our players was 2:02, the next player who beats that time as a jockey winning the race will receive not only his regular community points, but extra bonus community points for being the new race record holder in our game. This is a new feature that will be part of the next version and will only be available with prebuilt races.