Quarter Pole January 3, Year 1

How to play

1. Open your stable

Log in on the forum, then come back to the game and name your stable.

2. Create your first horses

On your Dashboard, choose Create a foundation horse. Pick a name, sex, surface and age. Each one uses a creation credit. Older horses can race straight away; 2-year-olds have time to grow.

3. Read the trainer's notes

Open a horse to see its trainer's notes. They tell you what the horse is good at, and which distances and running style suit it. Hire a better trainer for a more reliable report.

4. Train

Press Train once a day on each horse that hasn't reached its peak. Training brings young horses on faster.

5. Enter a race

Go to Races, pick a day and a race, and use Enter a horse at the bottom of the race page. Only horses that fit the race are listed. Watch your horse's Energy: rest it between races.

6. Check the results

After race time, open the race to see the chart: where each horse was at every call, the margins and the times. Purses go straight into your Cash.

7. Breed

When a horse's racing days are done, Retire to breeding on its page. Book your mares to stallions on the Stallions page.

Questions? Ask on the forum.