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2021-12-151.055 USA Claiming races 2yo eligibility changed. Now 1 run. More claimers. League mode players can now view sire stats (previous bug reintroduced as requested).
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Strategic Designs Ltd. / May 2, 2019 / Racing, Simulation, Sports, Strategy
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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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1.055 USA Claiming races 2yo eligibility changed. Now 1 run. More claimers. League mode players can now view sire stats (previous bug reintroduced as requested).
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75% positive, 155 reviews
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...
9 found this helpful, 2026-02-21
Fun game once you learn it. Cant figure out how to turn off auctions on horses. But otherwise, seems pretty good!
2 found this helpful, 2025-11-20
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...
2 found this helpful, 2026-04-13
Graphically I like it. Many wont. But this puts me back when management games were hard but fun. The information is overwhelming, you can go into it with a bit of fun, serious, buy horses that sort of thing. I did not even realize this at all! Each race could have done with the name of the horse rather than the number. But for the money, this is a delight.
1 found this helpful, 2026-03-10

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