Great job Ted, thanks for the review.

I don’t like that the horse names no longer correspond to a colour.  I don’t imagine it will be quite as exciting to yell after horse #4… yay, go #4 go!  This will happen since the numbers always correspond to the same colours, and the names will be changing.

I also thought the board would have been increased to 40 spaces, this would make counting the new location of a horse at the beginning of the race easier.  A minor quibble, but there it is.

It is interesting that the 7 horses won’t have independent values for a roll of a horse head.  In Royal Turf Earl Gray always moves 1 on a horse head, Albino 2, etc, up to Othello who moves 7.  Having the possibility of many horses with the same --or very similar-- movement on the most common roll will introduce some new betting strategies.

A late draft of the rules included a “Royal Turf” variant in which you draw horses at random and reject ones that match the horse head number of a horse already in the race. Voila—Royal Turf is reborn.

As for remembering the names of 28 horses, I can’t help you there.