Champion Trainer

About the Game

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.