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I can see absolutely no point whatsoever in doing a Horse Racing simulation. Maybe if you could ride the horse in a race, it might be worth doing, but not a game where you simply bet on the horse in question.

Omni-Play press this game's claim to fame with the fact that you can buy loads of expansion disks to go with your horse racing simulation allowing you to play lots of other horse racing simuations.

You start the game with a set amount of pretend money, and you use this money to put pretend bets on pretend horses in pretend races. After putting your pretend money on your pretend horse, you watch the pretend race and see if you've won some more pretend money. What fun.

And that's it. There are lots of menu options whereby you can study jockey and horse form but that's all a lot of stuff and nonsense. Just put large amounts of 'money' on the horse with the best odds and you're bound to win.

Biggest disappointment of this game is the lack of graphics. The packaging promises incredible skills that you see when you play the PC game. The only graphics I could find were a still shot of the horses under starters' orders. After that, the nearest things to graphics are a set of numbers, each one supposed to be a horse, bobbing around a circular 'track'. What happened to excitement?

Horse Racing is a pretty dull and pointless game. With friends you could possibly get an hour ot two out of it, but otherwise it's not worth bothering about.