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Sheep Meadow Road Games · Published by Sheep Meadow Road Games · Official site ↗
Very Positive — 89% positive (216 reviews) · 28 achievements
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
Manage your own horse racing stables, breed and train future champions. Compete across diverse tracks, balance finances, manage staff, and expand your reach in the world of horse racing. Turn ambition into legacy, one choice at a time.
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Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access, Sports, Racing · 2025 · More £15 - £30 games
Dive into Horse Racing Manager, where you'll manage stables, train horses, and strategize your way to success across various tracks. Build a legacy through careful management and bold decisions in this immersive simulation experience.
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About the Game
Our goal is to make Horse Racing Manager the most realistic management simulation where you build and grow your own racing empire. You will make your way from small beginnings to world-class glory, every decision you make will pave your way, and you choose where it leads.
Roadmap of Horse Racing Manager
Road to Owner
Start from nothing. Begin as an unemployed manager or jockey, hire on with an existing stable, and work your way up. Ride other people's horses. Run other people's training programs. Bank every paycheck. Once you've got the cash, the reputation and the contacts, open your own stable and start calling the shots. Want to skip the climb? Drop straight into ownership on day one. Your career, your call.
Auctions and Trading
Buy and sell horses through a full market system. Bid against rival stables at auctions of every tier, hunt for the underpriced talent nobody else spotted, and arrange private deals for horses that aren't going to auction.
Breeding with the Pseudo-DNA Feature
Breed with our Pseudo-DNA system, where genetics actually matter. Every horse has a unique genetic profile (speed, stamina, acceleration, temperament, soundness, and dozens of other traits) passed down from both parents through dominant and recessive genes. Smart pairings stack strengths. Lazy ones stack weaknesses. Read the pedigrees, spot the hidden talent, and chase the rare pairing that makes the next champion sire or dam. Then watch your bloodline take over the sport.
Experience the Race
Race on different tracks and surfaces, from local meets to majors. Win or lose comes down to preparation, training and tactics. Once the gates open, either sit back and watch the simulation play out, or drop into Jockey Mode and ride the race yourself. Hold your position in the pack, time your move, save the horse for the final furlong, and finish it off. Every race rewards knowing your horse: when to push, when to wait, and when to ask for everything they've got.
Race Worldwide
Race across the world. Ship horses to international meetings, target the biggest names on different continents, and put your stable on the map. Every region has its own circuit, its own style of racing and its own rivals to beat. The best stables prove themselves on more than one of them.
Road to Champion
Climb the ranks. Start in Not Graded races, break into Listed company, then push through Group 3, Group 2 and up to Group 1, the level where horses earn a place in the record books. Every horse has its own grade. Every race has an entry tier. Moving up the ladder means picking the right targets, preparing properly, and timing your shot.
Succession and Social Life
Build a dynasty. Marry, raise kids and pass the stable down through the generations. Your children inherit your traits and grow into jockeys, trainers or managers in their own right. Decades later, the bloodlines you bred will still be running, with your family name still on the silks. Along the way, deal with jockeys, trainers, owners and journalists through social events and personal relationships that shape your contracts, your reputation and your long-term decisions.
Training and Care
Develop each horse the way you want. Choose training routines, set feeding plans, and decide how hard to push. Rest, conditioning and nutrition all matter. Get the balance right and you'll see the difference on race day.
Staff Management
Hire and manage jockeys, trainers, veterinarians and support staff. A good trainer turns potential into wins. A bad jockey throws away a race you should have won. Your staff are as important as your horses.
Facility Upgrades
Build out your stable. Construct and upgrade specialised facilities, each one with its own impact on training, horse development, staff performance and race results. A well-built base is the difference between average runners and serious contenders.
Every stable starts small. Only a few become legends. Build the stable, breed the horses, win the races, leave a name behind. The rest is up to you.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 or newer
- Processor: 2 Ghz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Support for OpenGL 3.3
- Storage: 1 GB available space
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Supported Languages
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
0.9.11.2 - 2026-09-18
Added - New race announcer system with a real life announcer (Sketchy The Horse Guy), replacing the AI voice system - Horses can now get dirty in races & training and just being horses - You can now groom your horses in their profiles, horses with caretakers assigned will automatically groom. You can also auto groom yourself if you do not enjoy it, by turning on this in your personal automation settings (found in settings) - You can now do three new interactions with your horse - Caretaker skill now effects how clean they can get the horse - If you have unclean horses, you can get an inspection by the Horse Welfare Authorities, continued neglegence will land you in jail with seized horses - Some people are making sites and supporting software for their stables/world, to aid with this you can now bulk export images of either your stables horses or your whole world, with or without background in the horse import/export tool - Ancestor view in horse details under pedigree that is text only, you can also use it in breeding pedigree view. Supports deep lineages (e.g. real world data Romantic Warrior 12 generations deep) and you can also copy it to clipboard as list or then copy in spreadsheet format - In races page, there is now an all races tab that some people were requesting as a registering method Improved - Manager budget instead of a % of the pool, now works like a hardlimit, if you go over it once you get warning from owner the second time you are fired - Look of the pages unified a bit more, padding is more unified, main content is now also on panels with a slight shadow to make them pop - Person training page is now on work tab, since it did not really have enough to be own tab - Race preview and auction preview pages top bar made simpler - In concepts you can now have only 1 race - Family now asks for gifts a bit less frequently, and kids should not ask for whiskey - Added social event options to telemetry so that we can better balance them - Sorting on breedin...Read full article on Community Announcements (Hamnyr)Patch NotesOfficial
[0.9.11.1] - 2026-09-15
Added - Now get invites for concepts where your horse is involved to pre-gala and before final race - Journalist now asks questions around concepts where your horse is racing Improved - You can now choose in settings if concepts where your horses are running come in or all concept results - In interface settings you can now choose to only show verified information on the oldschool racecard - In concept builder you can now filter by words the races - You can now select standardized birthdays and births on 1st Aug - Concepts created with real world data should now most of the time also work with parody world data Fixed - Game shipped concepts now have 1K as the priority - Made disasters a bit more rare still - Race preview should now work smoother for big saves - Concept pages should now work smoother for big savesRead full article on Community Announcements (Sheep Meadow Road Games)Patch NotesOfficial
[0.9.10.9] - 2026-09-14
Added - Bald & buzzcut hairstyle Fixed - Turn down jockey offer emails a bit - Remove historical concepts - Freelance jockey list showing horses with jockeys assigned - Freelance jockey gigs not linked to the correct race - Cancelled race still showing up in Past Races - Horse animations at the gate when horses are in the idle state - Incorrectly formatted track length, in the custom racetrack data, could be parsed as 1 meter. All implausibly short track lengths are now set to a fallback value of 1000 meters. This stops races with thousands of laps showing up, even if the racetrack data is not correctly formatted.Read full article on Community Announcements (Sheep Meadow Road Games)Patch NotesOfficial
[0.9.10.8.1] - 2026-09-12
Fixed - Bug where the autoregister also for non-concept races could register without a cooldown - Staff hiring should work a bit better now, so less empty stables - Bug where the birth mode setting changed on load game (this seemed to be a more visual bug - Update cocept names and descriptions) - Manual stallion fee resetting - World generation rules immediately respected, not after the start 180 day simRead full article on Community Announcements (Sheep Meadow Road Games)Patch NotesOfficial
[0.9.10.8] - 2026-09-12
Added - You can now in races make season campaings and assign these to your horses, this way you can control the autoregistering better (or specifically target races). Ability to import and export these, and you can also put them on the Steam workshop - People who purchased the game before 4th November 2025 now have access to a super special hat, as promised - Steam workshop integration for concepts, recurring races and auctions - There is now a in-game Steam workshop browser (usually near imports, sometimes own "Browse workshop" button), so that you don't have to leave the game to subscribe to items others have created - Show past winners of a race in the race details - Show past winners of a concept in standings Improved - Horses when battling for a concept, do not have a registration restriction anymore, this should let them even sameday enter another race - Race ovals should now work better in general - Covering requests have now been balanced better and overall should be more interesting for the player - Jockey ride offers should now be for higher tier races - In the inbox besides the favorite button, there is now also a quick mute button that turns of the email type - Character creation in new game and person creator, now has a seed that you can copy and paste so that you can quickly create a character you always use - When you scratch a horse, it now also shows hearts - Some more mutable email types - Expanded the localized names for persons - Stable owners should now be more local - Horses now have a seed for their whole DNA, including patterns in horse creator. We can also ingest now a DNA column with this value (covers the coat color only for now) with the custom horse data. This way you can replicate how real life horses look exactly - Stable names are now sometimes named after the owner - Apperance of NPCs should now be more geographically fitting - Inbox is more efficient for very big saves - New panel style for the simulation, that tells the user what ...Read full article on Community Announcements (Sheep Meadow Road Games)
