My last races
Your horses race without you: races take place at the stated time, whether you are logged in or not. This page is what you open on coming back, to watch your races before knowing how they ended.
That is its point, and it is why the players asked for it. It tells you neither the finishing order, nor the earnings, nor even whether your horse finished: only that it ran, and where to find the race again. The suspense stays whole until you launch the viewer.
Each line is one horse and its last race run, the most recent at the top. At the end of the line, the Watch button opens the viewer: you attend the race in 3D without leaving the page, and you move on to the next by closing it. That is where to start when you have several horses, rather than opening their cards one by one.
The game is built for that from end to end. The race's name leads to its card, and that card opens on a Watch the race button, not on its result: you can pass through it without learning anything. The finish is put away behind a second button, Start, and that is the only door that shows it to you. You decide when you open it.
What each line carries
- the name of the race, and just underneath its speciality and its length;
- the date and time at which it was run;
- the horse's name, clickable through to its card, followed by its for-sale mention if it is on the market;
- the Watch button.
One line per horse, not per race
A horse that has run three times this week appears only once, with its most recent race. The page answers “what have I got to watch?”, not “which races have I run?”.
For a horse's complete career, go through its card and the Races button: there you will find all its history and a summary by age. See A horse's card.
The dashboard, for its part, counts something else: the races run in the last twenty-four hours. The two figures therefore have no reason to coincide, in either direction. The tile looks at one day only, but counts each race — three races by the same horse count there as three. The page goes back much further, but keeps only one line per horse.
What the page does not show
Only finished races appear in it. An entry taken for tomorrow is not there yet: the Next race column of My horses is there for that. The two pages complete each other — one looks forward, the other backward.
The list also keeps the owner written on the entry, that is to say whoever owned the horse on the day of the race. Two consequences, which explain some surprising lists:
- a horse you have just bought only appears after its first race in your colours;
- a horse you have sold stays in it as long as it has not run for its new owner.
Finally, the list stops at no date: it goes back as far as the races kept by the game, that is sixty days. Beyond that, a race is purged and can no longer be watched again: if a finish matters to you, do not delay.
Watching, and not only reading
The viewer is worth more than a finishing order: it shows where the race was won and lost. A horse that leads from end to end and cracks in the last few metres, another that comes back without ever having been asked — you do not read that in a result, and yet it is what will tell you what to correct at the next preparation.
Get into the habit of watching your races, especially the bad ones. The viewer details its controls, and Jockey — My races explains what to draw from it for the next ride.