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Article: Youbet.com to Offer Virtual Horse Racing ...
Business Wire;  June 15, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... s highly popular virtual horse management and race ... fans to the sport. "Virtual horse ownership games could ... the same effect on horse racing on and off line ... the widest variety of horse racing content available via ...

Article: Vis odds-on for racing win; Breakthrough deals puts Dundee firm ...
The Sunday Herald;  August 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... raft of deals that will see its virtual horse-racing game available to gamblers around ... Portman Park and Steeple Downs virtual horse races that run on screens in ... of the game acts like fantasy horse racing, where you can own, train ...

Article: Victor Chandler offers virtual horse racing ...
New Media Age;  September 4, 2003 ;     694 words ... ... Chandler is the latest online bookie to launch a virtual horse racing product. The Gibraltar-based firm will be competing ... Digiturf.com. Virtual racing replicates actual horse racing, with users able to look at the ground condition ...

Article: Who needs horses, grass and a smoke-filled bookies?; ...
M2 Presswire;  April 19, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... horses, grass and a smoke-filled bookies?; Virtual Horse Racing offers better odds, races 24 hours a day, and ... from a GBP10 bet in the first week of a new online horse racing game - without even leaving his house! The phenomenal ...

Article: VISiTV bets o virtual horse racing channel
Scotland on Sunday;  August 26, 2001 ;     525 words ... ... channel yesterday. Edinburgh's International Television Festival was the setting for a preview of I-Race, a virtual horse racing channel that combines interactive TV with the latest computer games technology. The channel represents the first ...

Article: Lottery report says slots viable; Consultant also favors ...
The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  January 20, 2006 ;     693 words ... ... Advisers was commissioned by the Braintree-based state Lottery. It also recommends launching a keno-style virtual horse- racing game and creating a televised bingo game. "This is encouraging for the issue of slots at the tracks," said ...

Article: WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? OFFICIALS AT HORSE-RACING ...
The Boston Globe;  April 9, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Horse-racing officials in Massachusetts say they are worried that a virtual horse-racing game proposed by the state lottery ... Downs, said he didn't know whether horse-racing fans would find virtual contests ...