Play Saratoga
NYRA introduced a Facebook game called Play Saratoga today. It's being touted as a "social racing league," but as far as we can tell, it's kind of like fantasy horse betting.
Fantasy sports are so big right now that we figured there had to be fantasy horse racing/betting. There seem to be a few games -- but it doesn't look there's the wide field of options like there is for sports such as football, baseball, and... golf (really -- there's fantasy everything now).
The Saratoga game looks fairly straightforward: you're just picking races. The better your results, the more points you get, the more points the better your chances of winning prizes. Picks for a day's races have to be in before the first post time.
It starts Wednesday. It's free. And: it's not Farmville.
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Bet the Jockeys, not the horses. It's the only way to go.
... said Leah the Nosher on Aug 1, 2011 at 10:01 PM | link