(Sorry, 'fast' isn't one of the options.) You can buy and race as many horses as you wish, but each horse costs $15 per month, kind of like training and stabling fees in the real world.

There you select your future Secretariat, specifying all the particulars you want your horse to be. After registering at the site, you go to an area called The Sales Ring. None of this is free, but if you think about it, that makes the experience all the more realistic.

Virtual owners can buy horses, purchase equipment (like blinkers and aluminum shoes) to enhance their horses' performance and even design their own silks. You can even bet on your horse or someone else's.ĭigiturf tries to make the virtual racing experience as close as possible to the real thing. Thanks to a new web site - you can buy a virtual horse, of any color or sex you wish, name it whatever you want and then watch it run in 3D computer-animated races.

Then comes the wake-up call - buying and racing a thoroughbred can add up to big bucks, even at the lowest levels of the game.īut just because you don't have money to burn, doesn't mean you can't experience the thrill of racing your own stable of horses. You can just picture it, standing in the winner's circle following a Grade I stake and telling Jim McKay how you knew your horse had it in him all along. Like most horse racing fans, you've probably dreamed of owning your own thoroughbred.

How to win on virtual horse racing