Patent ID: 8075378

Claim:
A horse race gaming machine comprising: a plurality of racing games constituting a horse racing game; a plurality of stations each provided with an input device with which a player inputs information used for progressing the horse racing game; a performance point which is given to racehorses individually based on a racing game result of the racing game each time the racing game ends; a horse owning expense, in which a credit amount being collected as the horse-owning-expense from a player who owns any of the racehorses is accumulated; and a processor which is programmed, for progressing the horse racing game by controlling the plurality of stations, to execute processes of: (1) determining whether or not a player has become an owner of any one of the racehorses based on an input made by the player using the input device; and (2) in the station at which the player who is determined to have become an owner of any one of the racehorses is playing: (2-1) collecting a predetermined credit amount from all of credit amount which the player has at each predetermined timing; (2-2) accumulating the credit amount collected in the horse owning expense; (2-3) determining whether or not a performance point of the racehorse whose owner is the player satisfies a predetermined condition after every ending of the racing game; and (2-4) refunding a credit amount corresponding to a content of the performance point to the player at each time it is determined that the performance point of the racehorse whose owner is the player satisfies the predetermined condition.