Escalado

That must be a repeat you've seen Scrabbler as i've seen that before. Very popular in the 50/60s, trouble was lots of the lead horses fell and broke a leg and had to be put down.

True SR, I didnt relise there were that many barriers across the Track. They done a lovely job of it.

Thinking back to my youth and recalling other horse racing games.
I think one was called Jump Jockey and was a variation on Scalextric. There were fences across the track and you had to slow down at each obstacle or you would go backwards.

I can't recall the name of the other game. It consisted of an LP record which you played on a record player. The commentary was always the same apart from the end when the stylus would jump and fall into various grooves on the record, each with a different result.
I can still remember some of the commentary now 'It's building up to an exciting finish with Shoestring and Lemaine coming through on the rails and the winner is....Jet'

Anyone remember them?

The record was called ''They're off''. John Oaksey was the commentator.
I had Escalado every Christmas, the legs use to break but i'd have up 10 runners squashed together .
More runners than Fakenham.
i also had jump jockey and yes it was like a scalextric format.
My son has got Escalado but its plastic horses now. a bit like subbutteo of today, cardboard fitted into a slot on the base,
unlike years ago when you could buy a whole team in its colours.

Totopoly was another Racing board Game

I always backed Marmaduke Jinx in Totopoly.

think ive still got my Totopoly up in loft!!

I expect many of you will know this but the Totopoly horses were named after a sequence of Lincolnshire Handicap winners from the 1930's. Marmaduke Jinks was the winner in 1937. He was returned at 33/1 and paid 18/1 on the tote.  Nothing changes then!

Well i had the game as a kid 55 plus years ago and been a horse racing fanatic for last 50 years and I never knew that Blackbarn!!  Everyday a school day.

Dark Warrior was my fav. Think he was Number 1 black.

I could post an identical post as Geoff blackbarn

The game was published just before the war, so the winners were in recent memory at the time. It was fairly faithful to the weights, in that the 'black' horses (Nos 1,2,3) carried the highest weights of those Lincoln winners, the 'red' horses (4,5,6) the next highest weights, etc. For instance, '#3 black' was Dorigen, and she was a high class filly owned and trained by George Lambton. She was unnamed at 2, and ran then as 'the Trilogy filly'. She was just about the best of her age and gender at 3, but hadn't been entered in any classics, so couldn't run in them. She was ante-post fav for the Cambridgeshire at 3, off 8-1, but went off 2nd fav and finished 5th. She won the Lincoln on her 4yo debut, off 2nd top weight of 9-1 (bottom weight was 6-7). She'd won on her 3yo debut (the first time she raced as 'Dorigen'), winning at Liverpool, the race immediately before the Grand National. Unplaced in her 1933 Lincoln was Knight Error (Steve Donoghue), the winner of the 1931 Lincoln, and '#9 yellow' in Totopoly.