Apparatus for playing a horse-racing game

Claim 1

Apparatus for playing a horse racing game comprising: a horizontal rectangular base; a rectangular playing surface located above the base and held parallel to it by a plurality of like vertical posts, the surface bearing printed and ruled indicia suggestive of the sport of horse racing and further bearing a plurality of slots arranged to form a concentric family of closed loops spaced equidistantly from each other in the shape of a horse racing track, each of the loops having a single circular hole therein, all of said holes being arranged in vertical alignment; a plurality of playing pieces, each piece taking on the form of a horse and rider; and a like plurality of vertical standards, each standard being attached to the bottom of a corresponding piece and having a small circular disc located at its lowermost end and a larger circular disc located above the small disc with the small discs being at most equal in size to the holes and the larger disc being larger than the holes so as to allow the standards to be introduced into the slots and removed therefrom only at those points along the slots where the holes are located.