I’ve been racing horses at HorseRacingPark for over 2.5 years now. I’m a small time owner. I race mostly in claimers and allowances. My horses find their way into stakes company rarely, but they have a big shot when they do. My winning percentage of 15.4% at pay tracks is pretty good by most standards. I’d willing to say that Horseracingpark.com is the best horse racing game on the internet, and if you haven’t checked it out yet you are truly missing out.

HorseRacingPark, or HRP for short, has everything related to horse racing that  you can imagine. Horses can be purchased through claimers, auctions, breeding, and can be automatically generated. Full pedigree analysis is listed for every horse, along with conformation statistics. Players have full control over every aspect of their horses career. They get to train the horse, decide if he needs something like blinkers or lasix, and are left to decide in which race their horse will compete.

Players can race for free at Mountaineer, or try their hand at the pay tracks. The pay tracks include nearly every track in the United States such as Del Mar, Belmont Park, Churchill Downs, Keeneland, and many more. There are also U.S. jockeys in the game like Rafael Bejarano and Garrett Gomez. Just about any jockey you will find in real life is also in virtual form at HRP.

Nearly every stakes race that happens in reality also happens at HRP, but on a 1:1000 scale. The $5,000,000 Breeders Cup Classic is the $5,000 Breeders Cup Classic at HorseRacingPark. The Triple Crown hasn’t been won yet, and the first trainer to take all three races will get $30,000.  Purses go as low at $1, and horses can be claimed at prices ranging from $1 to $120.

Other features at HRP include the weekly handicapping contest, in which players can wager on the races being contested each day. The top two finishers get to compete in the end of year contest for $500, and free horse vouchers.  They also have Pick ‘Em contests from time to time where the winner is awarded free horse vouchers.

Breeding is one of the best parts of HRP. There is no feeling like winning a race with a homebred. There are plenty of options for breeding. You can use your own sire and mare, or you can pay a stud fee and use your own mare or lease a mare from someone else. Sires can be found in the price range of $1-50 in most cases, and the best mares go from anywhere to $50-100 per foal. Breeding at HRP is just like in real life. Breed the best to the best and hope for the best.

When players breed horses they have the option of starting the horse as a yearling or a two-year-old. There are many owners who are in the game strictly for breeding. They breed horses for the sake of selling them in the auctions. This can be very profitable if you are able to get a horse that is quick early on or has a great pedigree and conformation.

The auction is one of the best parts of the game. It runs four times each year, and allows owners to buy/sell horses for small and big money. I’ve seen horses sell for under $10 that went to be a Grade 1 winners, and horses that sold for over $1,000 only to bust.

I have had a lot of success with the auctions, with total sales in excess of $1,000 (my investment was much smaller). The horses I’ve sold haven’t really gone on to do much (knock on wood) so I don’t really regret selling any of them. Perhaps the worst was Daiwa Major, who won the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth after I sold him. I didn’t really mind that though because a friend owned him and I got a decent price at $250.

Some of the biggest sales in recent memory at HorseRacingPark are $1,000 Grade 2 Pennsylvania Derby winner Whats Up. He sold for around $1,500 after burning up the track in an allowance en route to a track record breaking win. The owner that sold him claimed Whats Up for just $7. Not a bad return on investment! Another big sale was Breeders Cup Turf winner Siberian Rhythm. He sold for $2,555 after his big Breeders Cup win.

I’ve had a couple of good horses in my time at HRP. The best was a two-year-old colt named Entourage. He broke his maiden first time out at Golden Gate, and then ran respectably in an allowance. He was training very well and I had a feeling he was sitting on a big race, so I entered him in the $122.50 Grade 3 Kentucky Cup Juvenile at Turfway Park. He was a longshot, but he got up to win the race by a neck. Always one to make a profit, I sold him in the next auction for a hefty sum of $351. He didn’t really pan out on the track as a three-year-old, but is currently standing at stud in California. He has a great conformation and pedigree so he may see some success as a sire.

Other horses I’ve had include a four-year-old named Angry Again. He ran very well for me, winning two races in a row by a combined 10 lengths before losing by a nose to eventual Arlington Million victor Eviction Notice. I ended up selling Angry Again for $301. He didn’t do much on the track after I sold him, but he looks to be a future star at stud. He has sired a Grade 2 winning filly in his first crop. My best horse at the moment is a filly named Chopped N Screwed. She broke her maiden against maiden claimers at Golden Gate by 11 lengths and has quickly progressed. She won an allowance at Del Mar in her last start. I think with a bit of luck she could become a stakes winner.

I highly recommend giving HRP a chance. You won’t find a better or more realistic horse racing game anywhere on the internet. It is great for those of us who have always dreamed of owning horses but cant really afford the real thing. It is the best alternative you will find.  Gradedstakes.com visitors will get a special offer of 5 free horses by signing up through one of the many links on this page, or by clicking the banner below. Good luck and I’ll see you at the races!

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