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When Racing Goes to the Games: 3 Great Horse Racing Slot Machines

Horse racing is not a thing to be taken lightly. What people see – minutes of galloping on the track – is the result of a combination of breeding and hard work, both for the horse and the trainer. But horse racing has a playful side, too – the anticipation of the race, the bets, and the excitement of the win. This playful side is the one that the games below are focusing on, bringing the world of the racetrack one step closer to the player.

Sure Win

Sure Win is a five-reel, three-row, 25 win line video slot machine you can try at https://www.europalace.com/aus/. It focuses on the playful side of horse racing, with three horses, three jockeys, and several other racing-related symbols on its reels. With all its smiling (or even evil) faces, the Sure Win slot machine perfectly reflects the playfulness of the Euro Palace Casino – it’s a place with an amazing entertainment variety and some big wins for its players. And when it comes to big wins, Sure Win is not an exception: it’s one of the highest paying non-progressive slot machines at the Euro Palace, with a maximum win worth 560,000 coins attached to it. With a coin size of 25 cents, it can be quite a payday.

Lucky Horse

Lucky Horse is not your usual video slot machine. For one, it has six reels instead of the standard five, which gives it the possibility to offer way more win lines – 466 of them. Instead of focusing on the racers themselves – the jockeys and the horses – Lucky Horse takes its players among those owning and watching them race. Lucky Horse also features Horizontal Expanding Wilds, which creates lots of big and exciting combinations! Lucky Horse. A horse worth betting on… 4 by 6 reels. 466 pay lines. And it has quite a few Special Features, too, like Stacked Wilds, Connected Lines, and Horizontal Expanding Wilds.

Available on social networks, and as a native app on all major smartphone platforms, Lucky Horse is one of the most special horse racing inspired slot machines.

Derby Dollars

Derby Dollars is a slot machine that combines the best of the two games above. On one hand, it’s available for free play and real play alike, on the other it has plenty of bonus features, jackpots, and tons of racing fun for its players. With its retro visuals and sounds, the game almost makes its players feel like being in a Las Vegas casino back in the 1920s. It’s a fun way to spend some time between two races – although the game doesn’t run on mobile devices.

John Ferguson Discusses His Cheltenham Festival Runners With Emma Spencer

Newmarket handler John Ferguson is hoping to end his training career with a bang at the Cheltenham Festival, and feels he has a good chance of doing so with Champion Bumper contender High Ridge.

Ferguson is leaving the training ranks next month to become chief executive at Godolphin, for whom he has had a long association as a bloodstock adviser to Sheikh Mohammed.

But before concentrating full time on his new position with the Boys in Blue, Ferguson is sending a strong team to Cheltenham in the hope of landing his first Festival winner, and he told 888sport racing ambassador Emma Spencer he has particularly high hopes for two-time winner High Bridge. Read More of Emma Spencer’s Blog

 

Limato Takes the July Cup at Newmarket

The July Cup at Newmarket held on the final day of Newmarket’s three-day July Festival meeting is one of Britain’s most valuable and prestigious sprint races, and many of its winners have been acknowledged as the champion sprinter in Europe. According to 888sport Newmarket horse race odds, Limato (9-2) was the favorite going into the race, beating out Suedois (25-1) who finished second by two lengths, and the 7-1 Quiet Reflection finished third.

Limato is a four-year-old gelding, ridden by Harry Bentley and trained by Henry Candy who said, “He’s exciting, isn’t he? Absolutely amazing to watch…. Absolutely wonderful. In a year when things haven’t gone great, it’s doubly wonderful but to see a horse perform like that is just very exciting.” Candy had a 42 year winless streak in the Group 1 competition at the July Cup. Limato was the odds on favorite having won 7 of his previous 11 races and finishing second three times and a fourth place finish. 888Sport listed Limato’s Newmarket horse race odds at 9-2  and Limato made good with a thrilling finish.

BBC Racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght was quoted as saying, “The 2016 July Cup was billed as an outstanding staging of the historic Group One sprint with no horse absent that you would have wanted to see, so for Limato to drop down from a mile to win by two lengths in a very fast time – one minute, 9.97 seconds – and despite drifting off a straight line late on, is outstanding.”

The Newmarket July Cup is part of the The Global Sprint Challenge as a series of six sprint races run across three racing jurisdictions in Australia, England and Japan. 888sport will have the most recent and up to date information on the remaining races and the horses’ odds in each race.