Horse Racing Manager 2026 Reviews

I have enjoyed playing the game, however it gets boring. The whole game is revolves around earning cash. (Race winnings and selling horses). However there is no use for cash other than buying hay and terrible breeding rights. Everything good is done with gold horseshoes. I understand they want people to spend money on their game but it takes away the fun for most. There needs to be breeding rights available for let’s say 2.5 or 5 million with AA or A horses available. Also it is boring how race odds are pre-determined before the race starts (whoever has the 1-1 odds wins) there should be multiple horses with 2-1 odds or 3-1 odds. Then the races would be exciting to watch. I hope the developers read this and understand that it is close to being a fantastic game but not there yet.

This game is perfect in the way that it executes the feel of a managerial type game. However, the races begin with odds being displayed and before you even start the race you know if your odds aren’t “1-1” you will not win. Also, I have over 5,000,000 in game cash and all it’s good for us buying the “+5” weight after training. The other options should not be horseshoe purchases. If the only thing that was horseshoe purchases were breeding rights that’d be better and I’d be way more inclined to purchase them. If they want to charge for horse purchases, they should charge for horse readiness.

Overall, very frustrating to know that I spent a couple hours with another app that I’ll delete, because it doesn’t do enough to reward the player for putting in the time in app.

This game is clearly not fair. Some people who been in the game for a long time are racing against people who just started meaning no matter what your horse will never advance. I believe if you are a 1 diamond horse you should race against a 1 diamond horse afterall we don’t have all the perks that those who have been playing this game for a long time have. I’m very disappointed that I had to learn this after two years at the 26-27 level for two years. Clearly unable to advance further because of impossible goal to be reach. I would like to continue playing but had deleted my account and restarted only to learn I’m at a 1 and racing a 60 diamond horse. Please correct this and make it a fair opportunity for us. Fair isn’t fair in this game.

During the beginning of the game after my 1st horse was about to retire they suggested I buy breeding rights. I used the horseshoes I earned from challenges to buy 3 S rated breeding rights all of which didn’t show up. I then purchased $10 worth of horseshoes because I had no horse to race with. I bought 5 more breeding rights none of which showed up. I was unable to continue the game which is unfortunate because I loved playing it a few years ago it was amazing! Unfortunately I can’t even play past the first horse and wasted my money. Unless they fix this I highly suggest to not even waste your time downloading this game. On the other hand if it works for you and you’re able to breed it is an amazing game. Very disappointed.

For starters the graphics aren’t that good, and it keeps on restarting me every time I exit the game, or sometimes it just kicks me out which is really frustrating😡😡😡😡😡. so I can’t even make any progress in the game and you don’t even really do anything besides train a horse and then race and then train the horse and then race again that’s all it is. Plus, I just downloaded this game thinking it was pretty good, but it’s not. and I can’t believe I haven’t seen any thing on it saying that it kicks you out and restarts you. I don’t know if it’s just happening me but it’s really annoying so before you download HorseRacingManager2026 like me, please read this so you don’t make the same mistake I did.😤😤😤😤

I played this game for a good few hours steadily when I first downloaded it. I love the concept of the game, except breeding rights and horseshoes! Horseshoes are so ridiculously hard to come by, I hate how you have to pay in horseshoes to feed your horses. With multiple horses who are constantly losing weight, there’s absolutely no way to maintain an ideal weight because the feed costs so much versus the rate to earn the horseshoes. Also breeding rights, why do we have to continually purchase them over and over again? The ratio from horseshoe income and outgoing are not balanced at all. Will be deleted later. Hopefully you can improve it for future players!

I love this game. I do wish that it wasn’t so reliant on the horseshoe currency though. Have more than 2 horses that can race? Ha! Go pay 100 horseshoes so you can keep them for 1 year. What happens after that time period? You pay again!
I also do not like how you pay for feed with horseshoes.
Yes, horseshoes are a BIT easier to get than the secondary currency in most games, but I still struggle with it. And I know other players are. I would greatly appreciate it if you make things take less horseshoes. It would be better for everyone, especially those you cannot purchase in-game currency.

I’m about to delete HorseRacingManager2026 and try others, I wish someone could tell me which is the best. Why?
I have the BEST SS grade horses, lose every single race “live version” and I literally study the attributes of the other horses that beat mine; typically all of them. Only IF I knew why I was losing (dead last) and only if it was understandable, I might keep this game and even continue to use real currency. That being said, what’s the point of even awarding as much currency as you do when it’s not good for ANYTHING that actually matters! Only if you could use currency to get the best breeding possible, I might continue to play. But then again, I already have the best horse in every race, or top 2 , yet come in dead last. Unclear as to why.

1) The way odds work on this game is so silly. The odds are “perfect” and pretty much, whatever odds you get, is where you are going to place. In short, I believe that the horses’ condition, preferences, strengths/weaknesses should play a higher role in the game. If some sort of new system that takes this into consideration is put into place, it could open up the possibilities for bidding.

2) Breeding rights, wth! Why is it that you get breeding rights for the same horse over and over? It’s like some kind of crappy gacha. Breeding rights may work like this in real life, but I believe for a game, it would be better if, once you got a breeding right, you have the ability to always breed your horse with that breeding partner. It’s frustrating to get breeding rights with the same garbage horses over and over again. Also, inbreeding should not be allowed! Or at least discouraged and warned of unhealthy offspring, as other more prominent horse racing games have done.

3) There needs to be more incentives to keep playing. Most of that has to do with the previous two problems I just addressed.

4) This is a good starting point for a potential Gallop-Racer style game, which I believe is the prime example of how to make a realistic horse racing game. Implementing the option for playing as jockey would add a more interesting spin.

Really good idea and the basics are there for it to be a good game. However the following things i think need fixing...

If more than one horse in your stable enter the same race they should be in the same race, not copies of the same race.

Odds are not properly calculated, first because they are too short, the overall oddsmaker cut should be 5% not 200%, but also the best horse should be favorite, looks random to me.

Not enough variability, horses always run as well as they can with little variation. In real world races they position differently during the race and how they are ridden might vary, who they get stuck behind etc should have some effect. Even random would be good, but perhaps including jockey instructions would be a future feature.

Vs races are too random. The horses seem to be matched to other similar horses ( though i always lose so i may be missing something ). I would expect better horses in richer races etc.

Breeding alway produces males. Why? Mares race, and you could receive payment from other players for breeding for example.

More variation in races would be good, how about 3 year old derbies or 2 mile handicaps... which brings up, there is no concept of carrying weight so no handicaps or weight for age or anything like that.

If the horse doesn’t train you should be able to feed him.

I’ve been playing Horse Racing Manager for about a month now. As a veteran of 40 years at the track, as a bettor and an owner, here are my thoughts.

There needs to be a betting component, with realistic odds. In this vein, there need to be some long shot winners. In the races against the computer the horse with the best odds shown by the game pretty much always wins. Here it’s worth mentioning that it is much too easy for the player’s horse to win against computer opponents. There need to be surprises.

In the online races, the classes each race is open to are unrealistic. In the real world, a B horse would not always have to race against better horses. There should be more than the “B- to AA” and “AAA to SS+” classes. Let the B horses sometimes compete against the C and D horses, sometimes let them step up against better horses. And always give the weaker horses a chance of winning or finishing well, however slight. Likewise, a AAA horse is a pretty good horse. Why force those horses into races against SS horses, where, thanks to your algorithm, they have no chance? Let them run against A and AA horses sometimes.

Finally, what good is the purse money you win? Other than renting stalls and paying for training and moving horses into the racing barn, not much. We can sell our horses, so why can’t we buy some, too?

It’s a promising game. It’s fun. But it needs work if you want it to be realistic.

This is an amazing game I love the prospect of breeding different tiers of horses to make better ones, but I feel it’s unfortunate that you can’t sell breeding rights of your own horse. I would rate 5 stars if this could be added in even if it’s only a one time deal. Example being you can only sell breeding rights for your horse one time. The price would be fixed at the same rate as in the shop if not more depending on how the devs want to make it. Example being if you are selling a C class breeding right it would be worth the same market value as a bronze breeding case. If you are selling a SS it would be worth the usual 1000 premium currency. Omegas would have a hugely increased price or legendaries also.

I love the game. I also had a problem with the game loading and their tech support’s response was almost instantaneous. I used to play the Derby Owners Club game at Dave and Busters and this is the closest game to that.

My issue with the game is the fact that I have spent some cash to get horseshoes so that I could get better horses to breed with. I only did it because it said I had a 50% chance of getting an SS horse so I figured I would get at least two SS horses out of the five. I didn’t even get one. I tried it a couple of times and each time got zero SS. I hate being ripped off. I won’t be spending any money for a while. At least till I cool off about it. Now in all fairness I have been able to earn horseshoes over time and have used them to purchase horses and have gotten some SS horses here and there and I do have a competitive stable but when I take cash out of my pocket and get zero SS horses I’m irked. If that didn’t happen I would have rated it five stars

I also think that we should be allowed to breed our own horses with our own horses like you can at Dave and Busters. We would be able to tweak our line and really make some great horses.

Other than those couple of things it is a great game and I find myself playing it more than I should. Lol

I love horses and horse racing management games and this is one of the best out there! However i think it could use some work, maybe make horseshoes more easily accessible? I know there are in-app purchases where you can buy horse shoes but i am a broke college student (lol). I have way too many bucks and not close to enough horse shoes, maybe you could trade bucks for horseshoes? Or maybe make treats and and oats purchasable using Bucks? I only write reviews on games i really like so i hope the developers see this, take it into consideration and maybe make HorseRacingManager2026 my favorite game.

UPDATE (Nov ‘18): Greatly improved - issues from my initial review have been addressed. Online races and community breath a big sense of life to the game that was missing before as well. Still pretty grindy and meter management can be a bore unless you’re spending a lot to bypass, but core game makes way more sense and developer is actively improving.

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Horse breeding and their stats are entirely irrelevant.

Played for several hours and invested $15. Worked up to having an A Grade horse. It becomes pretty apparent that the races are generated randomly and don’t seem to have a base value - an A Grade with better stats can run the same race as a C Grade but be 24-1. The entire premise of the game is flawed because stats don’t matter, just a roll of the dice as to if your horse will win the all-important early races to reach expert.

Still waiting for someone to do the genre justice like Gallop Racer used to :(

I’m enjoying it so far but I was wondering if you could add horsey stable sound effects at the scene where you are at the stable scene of the horse just standing there looking about and pawing and shaking his head. Would be cool to add hoof noise when he paws the ground and does that prance thing that he does and some snorting and hard shaking noise❤️❤️❤️ I love the track running noise though the music of the thunder of their feet. 🐎 and nice that there is water swimming noise in the water training. The horsey noises matters to me a lot soothes me when I’m away from the real horses that’s why I love horse games it’s closest thing to having real horses in my apartment besides horse hair and tack haha😄❤️🐎 🤗 🥰. Another request is it would be nice if it’s possible to play this offline too. I don’t always get good internet a lot and that makes it hard because I got attached to my horse. I’d love to still train and feed and race him offline too. Thank you God bless

I love the game. One of the best horse racing games out there. The one thing that I would really like to see is make cash a more important thing. After you get an A+ horse it is really easy to get money and no way to spend it. I would like the ability to buy breeding rights with our money. Maybe spend 500k on a SS horse or more. The game is great but if we could use our money other than training and stables the game would be uncontested in the horse racing category.

Great Game,all I want to see,is handling the foals,leading the horses,auctions and vet visits. Other than that it’s a extremely fun game, and I think it’s the best racing game I’ve ever played. I would like to see some in stable breeding, and genders, so we can use our own horses to breed. Other than that, it’s an awesome game. I do get a bit bored after awhile since I am at the top level. I also think that you should be able to buy horses with your cash, and bet on your horses. Due to that fact of not being able to spend our cash in an adequate way, and having so much of it, I never bother to look at the prices. I would like a bit more diversity throughout the game like a storyline quest or something like that. Besides those facts, it’s a great game.

I’m just posted here lookin like an absolute Major League Baseball Player as I indulge in Horse Racing Manager 2019. By far the best horse racing game I have ever downloaded. This FAR EXCEEDS Horse Racing Manager 2018 as well as Pigeon Farm Manager 2017! Do not overlook the laborious tasks that you must complete though. I have always wanted to be a professional horse racer and my dreams are coming true with this game. Horse racing is my life as you can probably tell, but contrary to your belief, I do have quite a fallow swoop of beings I relish to call my friends. Anyways, this game is the absolute definition of perfection and I have not fulfilled my obligation if I haven’t persuaded you to download this game as soon as you are done reading this.

I love this game the online races were a great addition but it seems the same few are always the top racers, you don’t always seem the same people running horses in the derby otherwise Art Sherman never would have had a shot with California Chrome, give the little guy a shot at the big time. I work full time and barely get to play enough to earn a vip ticket, you need and even mix of horse shoe races and vs point races. Others have mentioned that while we can earn money there is little to spend it on, give a money option for the top tier (SS) horse breeding rights, also allow us to breed our own horses at little to nothing (like real owner/breeders) you never know what we may get 15 purple stars?