
Starters Orders 7 is the latest in the acclaimed horse racing management series from Strategic Designs Ltd. New features include in-depth breeding stats and lineage, realistic dynamic commentary, newspaper style race and form cards, new racecourses, old-school style betting shop race modes and more.
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Starters Orders 7 is the latest in the acclaimed horse racing management series from Strategic Designs Ltd. Train your string of horses and take part in races around the globe. Breed new stable stars. Build your stables and even take the role of the jockey.
Starters Orders 7 adds a number of new features including in-depth breeding and lifetime stats and lineage, realistic dynamic commentary, Newspaper style race and form cards, new racecourses and locations, etc. There is also an old-school style betting shop racing mode.
If you own Starters Orders 6 you can view the list of new features here: . Please note that SO7 focuses primarily on simulation improvements.
Starters Orders 7 continues to be developed and updates will continue to be made available on Steam.
Vast horse racing game world with thousands of horses, hundreds of jockeys and trainers.
The most realistic races ever in a racing game.
Permeant horse records with historical stats.
The only game ever to accurately simulate UK jumps racing.
Train, own, breed, bet and race in a realistic horse racing world.
Cutting edge real time commentary engine.
Alternative betting shop race mode.
Jockey mode. Ride your own horses!
Oculus Rift mode for the VR race experience!
Dynamic never ending horse racing game world.
Breed your own race horses or start a stud with your best stallions.
Sales. Buy yearlings, race horses, breeders from game trainers.
View any horses lineage and data back over 100 years!
Stewards enquiries, non-triers, fines, photo finishes, accurate handicapping etc.
Vast form book detailing previous form!
Offline management game. Pay once play forever!
Build a stud and put up your best stallions for offers from AI trainers/owners.
Improved jockey AI for the most realistic horse races ever in a game!
Hundreds of world-wide premiere races such as the Melbourne Cup and Grand National!
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
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Feels dated and janky, plagued by UI and performance issues. Opening the instruction manual crashes the game. This should not be a yearly release, there is no excuse but greed to keep releasing the same broken game every year instead of fixing it. It is pretty nostalgic to have to navigate this early 2000s UI with tiny illegible buttons, but it's not as fun compared to similar games that are more user friendly like horse racing manager. There is also a free mobile version that is exactly the same game, starters orders touch, get that instead of paying $25 for this.
Horse run fast. Hopefully.
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If you are interested in horse racing, you should enjoy this. I enjoy breeding my horses, training them, then watching them race. The details of the horses (condition, preferences, breeding, and psych) are better than I've seen in other horse racing sims in the past, and give you a good amount of control over your stable.
loads of fun for all horse racing fans
One of the best horse racing games ive played, think football manager for horse racing.
Best horse racing sim with graphics...great mods and community. I play single player but plan to join an online league after I get a few race horses ready.
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Main complaint is that twice now, it has crashed after playing for a couple hours, without saving the current session's progress, and unfortunately it isn't quite engaging enough to make me want to go back and restart from the previous save. To be fair, you can easily save at ~any point, so do that if you play. The other thing I find less enjoyable is that it is difficult to make enough money to stay afloat by racing your horses; while it's quite easy to make money by betting on other races, doing so is grindy and boring. Other than that it's not bad, if you like sports management games or horse racing.
Great Horse Racing Manager game, we need a new one!
Fun game once you learn it. Cant figure out how to turn off auctions on horses. But otherwise, seems pretty good!
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