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Owning A Virtual Horse In A Horse Racing Game
Daichi Hoang
Thinking about owning a racehorse but not prepared to invest too much? Start by owning a virtual race horse.
For many of us around the globe, the "Sport of Kings" is an attraction fuelled by watching high powered animals thunder their way down the race track. Whether it's the Kentucky Derby, Melbourne Cup or the richest horse racing days in Dubai, all the fans can only dream of one day owning a top class race horse.
In the virtual horse racing world however, common people have an opportunity to own horses that compete at these highest levels, albeit in a horse racing game.
Horse racing games have been around since the 1990's and developments in graphics, technology and broadband have now made it possible for extremely realistic 3D horse racing games to come straight to your desktop.
In many of the online horse racing games, it's the players job to manage a stable of horses, looking after everything to do with each horse including training, racing and even breeding. Although it may sound simple, there's a lot more strategy and detail involved in getting the very best out of each race horse.
For example, training a horse isn't as simple as making it run around the track a few times per week. Players are challenged to discover several handfuls of variables that affect the way in which a horse performs. Just a few of these include applying various gear to the horse, racing it under different jockey instructions, finding the right distance, surface, and more.
Racing each horse requires careful planning and clever placement of horses, typically starting the horse in a maiden race (races for horses that have not won yet) and then working up the grades to the very top.
Breeding is an aspect of thoroughbred racing that interests a particular group of people who enjoy studying the bloodlines of each horse and trying to figure out the best combination between a stallion and a mare to produce the ultimate offspring.
About the author:
Daichi Hoang is a veteran player of online horse racing games, with over 8 years of experience managing a stable of virtual horses. For more information on virtual horse racing visit www.virtualraceday.com
Article submitted Sunday, October 12, 2008
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