Last updated on November 25th, 2025 at 03:05 pm
Photo Finish Horse Racing – Racing Game Review
Photo Finish Horse Racing is a Racing/Sports/Sports game from Third Time, Inc, first launched in 20th August 2015.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 21,592+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Photo Finish Horse Racing Stand Out
The best horse racing series on mobile!
Can you win the Cup and take the Crown of Horse Racing? The Quest has begun!
Hire a jockey, train your horse, and compete in a variety of races from a local derby all the way up to winning the quest for the Cup! Photo Finish Horse Racing is the ultimate horse race simulation, featuring lifelike animation, stellar graphics, addictive gameplay and intense competition. Live the life of a jockey, owner, and spectator in the Sport of Kings!
Play a quick race in a spare minute, or battle your way through the major derby to win the Cup!
CHAMPIONSHIPS:
Breeder, Jockey, Cup Champion. Triple the roles, triple the fun. Be it all in Photo Finish Horse Racing!
Have Kentucky dreams? Belmont ambitions? Intentions for Epsom? Start your racing quest now!
Will you earn your crown as Champion? Breed a championship caliber horse to win
Rise in ranks until the day comes – the day you race in the derby! Get to the stable and get going!
BREEDING:
Develop your stable and breed the ultimate stallion!
Do you have what it takes to be the best breeder? Breed the best to beat the best!
Make your stable a haven for the fastest horses!
RACING EXPERIENCE:
Triple your rewards in online stakes!
Graphics so good you’ll think you’re racing in VR!
Race every day to reach the haven of the success!
Race online against players from Belmont to Epsom!
TESTIMONIALS:
Lloydo 2000 – “fantastic game, honestly the best I’ve played on my phone.”
Hannabooba – “This game is amazing if you haven ‘t downloaded yet, go download now”
Jungnshjej – “I love how you can breed the horses and enter contests”
Oh My Gosh Shelby A Wolf – “OH MY GOSH LUV IT!!!”
Hemlock Stable – “I love every aspect of this game”
Matfat – “I’ve been playing this game every day for two weeks!”
Spilla R. – “It is exactly like being in the Kentucky Derby, but being in it”
Erica I. – “wish each tier of horse could have triple crown depending on their record for their season” – Added more races to every tier!
Luke W. – “create your own jockey, name your horse, race others online, all this on a phone”
Shah S. – “Best horse racing game I have ever seen in my lifetime”
Miguel N. – “Fun chance to play all roles – jockey, trainer, breeder and owner”
Well, what are you waiting for? You haven‘t begun your quest for the crown!
- PLEASE NOTE! Photo Finish Horse Racing is free to play, but it contains items that can be purchased for real money.
Meet other players and find out more about Photo Finish Horse Racing: - Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/photofinishgame
- Twitter: @photofinishgame (http://twitter.com/photofinishgame)
Note: Kentucky, Belmont, and Epsom are examples of cities and states our players have played in. No race takes place in Kentucky, Belmont, or Epsom. VR not supported, though we do love VR as much as the next VR enthusiast.
This Racing game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Photo Finish Horse Racing is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 15th October 2025
Recent improvements include:
Default language – en-US
- Fixed a bug where Leaderboard and Events rewards were not given properly
- Fixed the daily free spin issue
- Added horse position display when losing a race
- Optimized game assets to reduce build size
- Other performance and policy updates
Download & Availability
Photo Finish Horse Racing is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Photo Finish Horse Racing on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Is not letting us play the London championship is only says loading and we cant avance to the third tier because of that race.
Love the game but Im stuck on the 5th major race in France and keep getting a loading screen. Tried to reach out theres no support or help Id love to continue the game if possible.
For some reason we have started to have issues accessing the Championship Races. The game stays frozen on the loading page and we have to close the app. We deleted and downloaded the app again and we keep having the same issue. Would rate 5 stars but this issue made us give it two.
It works about a quarter of the time, and only when you hit 3 times.
We cant figure out how to find the instructions as to what to do. Im buying horses and doing things but it just seems to be but we only have one course we can race we dont know how to play the game.
For one you should be able to choose if your horse and jokey is male or female (female horses should be smaller.) And secondly you should be able to customize your horse a little more, like white markings on the legs and forehead, to make the game a little more realistic, but other than that l like your game and would recommend it for horse-racing loves.
This game is actually fun because Im a real big horse girl and cowgirl. We love all rodeo games and and horse games so hopefully s is a really fun game this time s one of the best games ever.
We love it so much because we love horses and how they gallop through the wind thank u so much for making this game it can give you free horse shoes by just getting the apps that it tells u to Thank u suporters.
This game really puts you at a challenge while keeping you exited. Very good game and strongly recommend.
We really like this game. It is easy to play, it doesnt require a ton of concentration, end it can be played in a few spare moments that you have. The only complaint we have is the horsess energy.The energy is shared between the horses. Each horse should have their own energy, because each horse is separate. You have to pay for each ones upgrade separately, so we think their energy should be separate as well.
THIS IS THE BEST HRG YOU WILL EVER PLAY.
This game is amazing but you literally have to buy horseshoes but the money is easy to make.
Super easy and simple but still really fun.
We think its a very nice game! If you love horses then this is for you. Our friend told us to get this game and we got it and Im have it a great time.
This game is so fun and having the horses race is so fun in our opinion you should get this game.
Bye love yall too Yesss hope yall enjoy your game.
We love this game the way u can change the horses color name same with the jockey it's a great racing game and the start is amazing same how u can change the team color and breeding can u use ur own horses to breed anyway the best racing no horse game EVER . It's great it would be good for eight nine ten year olds but we love the game we would recommend getting this game. P.s. If u do play we're rainbow fire/ Sam short/wildfire.
This game is awesome!!! As someone who travels a lot and loves horses it is an awesome game cause you dont need internet/wifi so perfect for flying on planes! This game is so entertaining you can literately play for hours on end. Its free and doesnt have to many in app purchases and NO ADS. (Except if you want to earn some coins you can watch one.) Recently we have been playing this game and it never gets old. We love watching horses and playing with them, so in this game you can do both. You can breed horses, upgrade their tack, customize them, pick their uniform, and change their names.It never glitches so we have no complaints about this game. If you like horses, no adds, and a boredom cure this is definitely the game for you! DOWNLOAD NOW.
Este juego es muy bonito porque yo jugaba con mi primo.
The game is really fun but we do have a couple suggestion we wish you could pick your horse and have more foals it would also be fun if you could ride in a arena or a field kind like trail riding and every good race horse need a jockey so maybe let us pick the jockey we wish you could rename the horse multiple times.
This game is so so good and we won the last game.
This game is outstanding we are so addicted to it. Every time we win we get SOOO excited!! There is just one thing. You have to get 40 skins and 12 packs to unlock your foal or colt. 40!! But we still think that this is an amazing game.
We love this game our mom and we would always play it.
Ok listen we we love this thing you do not have to pay anything exept horse shoes and money.
Ok so this game has so much life in it and its free and it helps us with our confidence and u can name your horse we named our horse dave cause our human name is David anyways it a fun game.
Add caring for the horses please and trail ride thanks.
This game is like so fun we hope you make some more updates plz so this game can be more fun.
Hands down the BEST horse game EVER.
Really good game but when it said you lost it is mean so can you fix that like saying good worksomething but really good game you should get it if you havent.
Love this game! Very realistic. Have finished game. Now what! Why arent you adding more tiers so we can continue breeding and racing more horses.
We love this game so much but we think there should be a way to get horses to grow up faster so you can race them.
We know you guys need money to keep making it, but waiting for tack to come is a nuisance! The game is great, and if you really know how to work it it gets better as time goes on. We just dont have five hours in our day to wait for better tack, so the time needs to be shortened to a few minutes or cut out completely. Its great, but since you have to wait for tack by tier 3 you want to delete it for lack of time. We dont have the game currently, but if this was to be changed we would certainly get it again. Or at least if you could stack up waiting for tack, and while waiting for the fifth upgrade you could buy the sixth, seventh, etc and wait for them all together. We wish the game was easier to play in a smaller time frame but this isnt a game for a busy schedule. If this was fixed, it would be (even more) amazing though.
We think its a good game. We love it very much! But the only thing that bothers us is when our goals grow and we want to race it breed then its locked. Overall, its an AWESOME game.
Great job with this app. Its our favorite.
We really like this app, personally and dont get on horse racing or watch it or really anything, but this game is honestly a lot of fun and it doesnt enforce racing it just shows how you a fun game, we in fact would prefer if racing became a thing of the past and all that remained were games like this but we still think its a lot of fun to play and it definitely entertains us for a long time.
Its fun when you almost lose and then you win. And when you need to calm down some its good too we love it cause horses are so fun and we love horse racing.
This game is amazing!! But if you guys could for some updates when the quarter horse races run if you could do races from different distances and more horses per race. Also when they run the thoroughbred races could you not make them just run in a line if they can make those races more realistic like when they run in a pack and then it gets excited coming down the stretch, and maybe add an announcer that calls the races. That would be awesome! And maybe some cool tracks like church hill down and other tracks like that. Also if they can do a 1st person jockey view like droning the horse that would be awesome to! If you could maybe consider doing these things we think this would help the game because it will be even more realistic. Thank you this game is amazing.
So at first we did not know how and now we do and Im kicking butt.
We love riding in real life and in this game we love it.
This game is great so far- especially love the Napa stakes we won one of them the game is great no lagging no bugs so far this game is absolutely a GREAT game five stars- Taylor B.
Deberan poner mas colores de caballos.
App and game is great! Awesome quality! However when it comes to the free horseshoes page..its basically a page where you buy stuff from other websites or play free games and get real warded in free horseshoes. We did one and we never got our free horseshoes. Tried contacting customer support and no answer/cant send them messages.
We had a lot of fun with this one. The horses are very well done and you dont have to wait an unreasonable time for more energy and for upgrades. We never felt overwhelmed by commercials and we could watch as many as we wanted to get rewards. After a while we did wish the game was more realisticnot convinced the creators know horses or racing well. If we manage to sprint endlessly, we win. Yes it takes a lot of money and time to raise a racehorse that good but buying tack is not the same as training and strategy. The biggest drawback is the breeding but we appreciate that they came up with a way to skip having to worry about which horse is male or female (and other games let you inbreed like wildfire, which is strange). We just want to have the goal of owning both horses being bred. Anyway, you absolutely have to see the racehorse with Okapi markings. So gorgeous.
Can yall plz add where u can race agianst your friends plz.
On photo finish can you plz put an update where if you follow some sort of account you will get horse shoes pleaseeee.
The #1 horse racing have is definitely rival stars but this app is pretty good.
We dont like when you lose it says you lost.
This is a great game!!! Its a lot better then oh most all the other horse racing games!!! Wish it had a little better graphics. But over all its a great game and easy to navigate.
Where is the option on selling owned horse.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 10.15
- Size: 306.51 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Contests, Loot Boxes
- Developer: Third Time, Inc
Last updated: 15th October 2025 | Genre: Racing, Sports | Developer: Third Time, Inc