Upzen Downs Racing Association is a thoroughbred racing board game that simulates multiple aspects of the sport from the races to backstretch scenes of the jockey colony.
The game may be played as a stable owner investing in horses and racing them, competing with other stables in tournaments for profit or loss. Play through a race, a season or multiple seasons with victories and failures, surprise results and inevitable difficulties. There are ten stables. Each owns eight race horses that compete in each tournament season.
Horse identities are established as performance results make each horse a greater or lesser threat in the next race. Streaks and injuries affect performance through multiple seasons. At the extreme, but not impossible situation, a horse may be destroyed due to injury.