App: Starters Orders 5
Developer: Strategic Designs Ltd.
Genres: Games, Sports, Simulation, Sports

The No.1. Horse racing management game arrives on the Apple Mac!

Starters Orders 5 builds on the 2010 release Starters Orders 4 with many new features, improved AI and realism and also improved screen mode options for the Mac.

For a list of improvements since Starters Orders 4 see: http://www.startersorders.com/so5/.

Train, own, race, breed and bet on your own string of race horses. Target all the big world-wide races in an open ended, unlimited play game world over both the flat and Jumps.

UK, US, Irish and Australian game modes!

The Starters Orders series has long been considered the No.1. PC horse racing management game series world-wide and has received rave reviews from both the racing and gaming press (PC reviews):

"Where Starters Orders scores over other racing games past and present is in the level of accuracy in the underlying game world." - RACING POST.

"It's hard to find fault with Starters Orders and Strategic Designs deserve racing fans' support for developing such an excellent game." - RACING AHEAD (monthly horse racing magazine).

"If the prospect of raising and racing a cavalcade of horses interests you then Starters Orders 4 wins the roses!" - OUT OF EIGHT GAMES REVIEWS.

"A photo-finish at a big purse meet can get you screaming at your monitor every bit as much as watching the Grand National on TV!" - IT REVIEWS.

"Both editions (of Starters Orders 4) are superb, in-depth management simulations, the like of which rare on the casual gaming-heavy App Store" - Pocket Link (iPad).

Just a few STARTERS ORDERS 5 FEATURES:

*Play in a vast horse racing world with thousands of horses and hundreds of computer controlled Jockeys and Trainers.

*Relatic races and Jockey AI. Watch as the jockeys settle their mounts and jockey for position before driving their horses for the finish.

*Relaistic betting and dynamic odds with Ante-post and racecourse betting.

*Fields of up to 40 runners.

*Hundreds of realistic feature races to target including the Derby, Breeders cup, Melbourne cup and many, many more.

*Improve your stable by purchasing add-ons and evaluate your horses by running them on your home gallops.

*Realistic races including Maidens, Claimers, Sellers, Handicaps, Group races, Listed races, Hunter chases etc.

*Hundreds of world-wide race courses.

*Realistic form analysis with in-depth form book to study and realistic race cards on race day.

*Injuries, stewards inquiries, disqualifications, non-triers etc. etc.

Release notes:
Memory leak fix.
Rare crash fix.