Champion Trainer

Build on horse racing's Golden Age of the 70s and 80s as you to take the reins of your own stable on January 1st, 1990. Manage day-to-day running, from staffing to breeding to facilities - can you etch your name alongside the greats?

BREEDING & BLOODLINES

• Mendelian and polygenic inheritance:  a comprehensive 15-trait genome, with trait linkage, alongside sporadic mutation emergence.

• Real Thoroughbred lineages, over 300 years deep: featuring over 14,000 real pedigree records that reach back to the foundational sires: the Byerley Turk, the Darley Arabian and the Godolphin Arabian.

• Chef-de-Race dosage: 222 chefs from Roman's tables shape distance aptitude, and dosage re-enters the line with every foal bred.

• Bruce Lowe families: full family and subfamily numbers on every pedigree. 

• Nicks built from real historical race records: cross affinity calculated from three centuries of breeding data. Authentic black-type winners and real crosses, weighted by historical evidence.

• Line-breeding: tighten a good line, but push too far and risk poor foals or stillbirth. 

THE BLOODSTOCK MARKET

• The sale ring: bid live at auction or consign your own stock.

• Private treaty: browse the wider market and deal directly.

• Mare leasing: lease broodmares for your stable or let your own out.

• Stud fees: monetise your champions at stud or source elite sires from the open market.

RACING

• 24 real UK and Ireland courses: the real racing map, growing on history's schedule: Wolverhampton's all-weather opens in December 1993 and Newmarket runs both its courses, Rowley Mile and the July Course, by season.

• The full schedule: sellers to Pattern class, official-ratings handicapping and a win-keyed penalty that punishes the sandbagger.

• Race day: riding tactics set before the off, weight that costs real lengths, and a top-down live viewer with silks, furlong poles and commentary.

• Jockeys: bookings, retainers and apprentice claims.

• A world with a past: every horse arrives in 1990 with a rich background built on real ancestry and their real race records.

THE BETTING RING

• An honest market: every price is built from public form only, with win and each-way singles. If you can read a maiden better than the market can, the value is yours.

YOUR YARD

• Training that makes a difference: an 11-option weekly training regime to build fitness, freshness and sharpness.

• Juvenile education: yearlings need to be broken, ridden away and stalls-schooled before they ever see a racecard. Skip the schooling and the stalls gate will tell you why.

• Injuries: how you manage a setback genuinely moves the recovery: box rest heals, work and neglect extend the spell.

• Facilities and staff: gallops and facilities with real recovery physics. Trainers, bloodstock scouts, grooms and head lads can be brought on to support your rise.

• An economy that bites: real costs, real insolvency. 

• Rivals on your rules: every NPC yard runs the same engine, the same rules, the same information. Outbreed them, out-train them and out-place.

ONLINE

• Race rival trainers: send your string into scheduled feature races against horses bred and trained by other players, run live by the same race engine.

• Results of record and watch-back: every online race publishes to the official site with a leaderboard showing the best of the best.