Sheep Meadow Road Games

[0.8.6] - 2026-02-10 (Windows only!)

We are currently in the process of transitioning to a new CI/CD system. During this process, we’ve run into an unexpected issue, which we’re actively working to resolve. We expect it to be resolved in the next couple of weeks.

What does this mean?

  • Game updates will be less frequent, but they will be larger.

  • Development will continue at the same pace.

  • Unfortunately, we won’t be able to update the macOS version temporarily, as we currently don’t have the ability to manually produce macOS builds. Updates for macOS will resume once the new CI/CD system is fully operational.

Thank you for your understanding, and we apologize for the inconvenience.

Added

  • Start of road to owner, where you can start without a stable, work for someone elses stable as manager, get enough money to start your own or stay with them.

  • Added person reputation, works in similar way to stable prestige. You get this by winning things.

  • The bigger the stable, the more reputation they want from you before hiring

  • Added racecourse functionality into the game, you can now trade racecourses or construct them

  • You can manage the finances of the racecourse and create custom races in the racecourse detail page

  • Racecourses have their own accounts, but once a month if the racecourse is negative it does a sweep from your stable to cover the short term debt that has occured

  • Sound effects and a mute button for the lootbox minigame

  • Sound effects to: quick selling a horse, harness racing, transferring money between player and stable

  • In top bar, quick way to move cash between player and stable button. You can also access this with T hotkey

  • In yellow pages table now show listed date, default order is to show newest first

  • Small easter eggs

  • For interactions add a scene system, where it’s a bit nicer to look at. Still a bit WIP with some drawings missing.

Improved

  • Added two new table data types, distance and ratings. This should make these look more consistent across tables.

  • For metrics, round the values for racetracks from say 2012 to 2000m

  • Stops race sounds when showing result screen

  • The purchase share emails now includes the % of shares

  • Added button to change role to the person work page

  • Added change role specific dialogue

  • Order of stats across all views is consistent and in logical order

  • Added decay to prestige and person reputation, this is also exposed in settings

  • With successful negotiations you now gain negotiation, and loose skill for unsuccessful

  • The lootbox costs now scale with the max horse costs in the game, to make them a bit more balanced

  • Hidden initial demands of staff negotiation, to make it more interesting

Fixed

  • Staff negotiation flow should be better now, with the people not increasing their demands as the negotiation goes on.

  • Horse valuations should not fluctuate anymore when horse is born to a couple of weeks old

  • Minimum jockey age is now 16

  • When you used autoregister, it sometimes did not use the correct jockey

  • Distances would sometimes not be localized

  • You should only be able to be pregnant with one child at once for now

  • Horse imports should work again

  • Fixed some of the wording in the Gipsy Lee email

  • Ambient sounds in race were not playing if skipped prerace introductions

  • Changed audio balancing when zooming out in the race

  • Corrected active sponsor ID so active sponsorship is displayed.

  • Missing Stable name during Negotiation fixed

  • Sounds playing when opening the game

  • Logic for which gallop sound to use based on the surface

  • Sometimes the player would get emails not related to them regarding shares

  • When changing roles you don’t get poaching message

  • Renamed Black Roan coat to Blue Roan. Note: The change will only affect horses that are created after the update.

  • Grullo horses no longer have a black coat

  • In staff hiring table, remove the person and staff prefix and suffix from the colums

  • In lootboxes show stars instead of the raw ability stat

  • Gipsy Lee and other easter eggs, should now trigger correctly

  • The Options tab now appears only when the horse is in the player’s stable and alive, and the Pedigree tab is shown at all times.

  • Remove tidbit descriptions from fan named horse, this was causing confusion

Original announcement on Steam

Horse Racing Manager on Steam
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