Rules

Your stable

Every player gets one stable. New stables start with Cash and creation credits for foundation horses.
Cash is the game's money. You earn it from purses and spend it on entry fees, stud fees and services.
Creation credits make new foundation horses. Sending a horse to the TRP gives a credit back.

Each horse has hidden stats. You never see the numbers: your trainer's reports describe them, and better trainers judge more accurately.
Every horse prefers one surface: dirt, turf or steeplechase. Horses only enter races on their own surface.
Horses grow stronger until their peak age, hold their peak for a few years, then slowly decline.
Energy goes down when a horse races and comes back a little each day. Tired horses run worse.
Horse names follow the Jockey Club rule: up to 18 characters, letters, numbers, spaces and ' . -

Races run once a day. Enter before race time; you can scratch and get your entry fee back until then.
A horse can run in only one race per day.
Race types: maiden (horses that have never won), claiming, allowance, and graded stakes (Grade 3, Grade 2 and Grade 1).
Steeplechases are for 4-year-olds and up.
Races with no player horses are cancelled. Fields with few entries are filled out with house horses, whose purses are never paid.
The top five finishers share the purse.

Entering a claiming race puts your horse up for sale at the race's price.
Other stables can put in a claim before the race. If several claim the same horse, one is picked at random and the others are refunded.
You keep any purse your horse wins in that race.

Retire a horse to breeding to stand a stallion or breed a mare. Retirement is permanent.
Stallion owners set a stud fee and a book size. Your own mares breed to your own stallions for free.
Coat colour follows real horse genetics. A genetic test shows a horse's genes.

Pensioning sends a horse to the retirement home. It no longer races or breeds.
The TRP (Thoroughbred Rehoming Program) takes a horse out of the game and returns a creation credit. It opens once the horse has been offered in a claiming race or at auction.