Horse racing game

Claim 1

A horse racing game method comprising the steps of: (a) providing a game apparatus including a game board having a business track having a plurality of land spaces and a plurality of action spaces printed thereon, and a race track defined concentrically within the business track for permitting the simulated racing of horses; (b) providing a bank having money; (c) providing a plurality of land title cards, the land title cards each defining a particular land space on the business track of the game board; (d) providing a plurality of horse cards, the plurality of horse cards each defining a particular horse as a type of horse being either a mare or a stallion, a pre-race value of the horse, an age of the horse, and a ranking of the horse; (e) providing a plurality of disparate player tokens, for positioning upon the business track of the game board; (f) providing a plurality of race horse pieces for positioning upon the race track of the game board; (g) providing a pair of dice; (h) initially giving each player a land title card, a horse card, and a predetermined amount of money from the bank, and an individual one of the player tokens; (i) selecting a player order; (j) rolling the dice by a player in the player order; (k) moving a respective player token in a predetermined direction about the business track of the board in accordance with a number generated during a rolling of the dice; (l) permitting the player to purchase land when residing on a land space and permitting the player to purchase a horse card when residing on an action space which allows a player to purchase a horse; (m) attempting to qualify a horse by the player, wherein the player must land on an action space indicating that the player can roll the dice to qualify; (n) rolling the dice by the player to determine which horse card can be qualified; (o) paying a fee by the player to qualify the horse; (p) positioning a respective one of the race horse pieces corresponding to the horse card onto the race track; (q) repeating steps (j) through (p) until six horse cards have been qualified and six horse pieces are positioned on the race track; (r) rolling the dice separately for each of all six race horse pieces, starting from the race horse piece positioned on a track number one through to a track number six of the race track to define a set of rolls of the dice; (s) advancing a race horse piece for a particular roll of the dice a corresponding number of spaces in a predetermined direction about the race track; (t) repeating steps (r) and (s) until after a completion of a set of rolls, and a passage of at least one horse past a finish line marked on the race track of the game board; then repeating sets of rolls until all positions of the horses in each race have been finalized; (u) determining a winner as the player with a horse piece first to pass the finish line, as well as determining the remaining horses finishing positions 1st through 6th as they pass the finish line.