Following on from my posts regarding the Sport of Kings, namely horse racing, I have decided to create a blog specifically for Win, Place & Show, a board game for horse racing.

The board game comes with a vinyl race track which is cleverly part of the box packaging. Unclip it and lay it out, hey presto, you have the track. It also comes with a program of races, six very flimsy horses, dice and cash.




I want to use more than just six horses and have created this add on piece from cardstock to match the track. Not perfect, but good enough to allow for larger fields. The horses in lanes 7 - 12 must join the regular track before reaching the first bend.



Very basic, just coloured card, ruler and ink. Very low tech.


I have much better horses from the Grand National board game, at the front are the original 24 horses and jockeys that come with the game.



I managed to obtain a second set of horses, I retained the cap colours but repainted the silks. This gives me a total of 48 different horses for my races.



Using modified tables from the All Star Replay magazine, published by Avalon Hill in the early 1980's I have a system to create my own horses and the running strength points.


Also a way to determine the bonus number.



Also from the same magazine, a way to record times of races, this will allow a form book of sorts to be created.



Finally, the horses, I have created a number of record cards, the horses running strength is given in each box to give an overall rating, needed for each race. The rating are very experimental at the moment, I need to check them out with a number of test races to make sure they are not too powerful or too weak.

So the scene is set, the track, horses, time sheets and record cards are all ready, time to begin the season.

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