Gold Cup horse racing challenge

The Gold Cup Horse Racing Challenge - sometimes called a hobby horse racing game or a horse racing simulator - is a four-player head-to-head race where each player straddles a hobby horse and rides as hard as they can. The physical motion is linked to a small horse figurine sliding along a lane on the green felt racecourse in front of them: the harder you ride, the faster your horse goes. The built-in commentary calls the race as it develops, announces the winner by colour and name, and resets automatically for the next group. A round takes under a minute.

The racecourse unit is a rectangular box with horse-racing imagery on the front panel and a green felt course on top with four coloured lanes, each with a small horse figurine at the starting position. The hobby horses - one in each of blue, yellow, red and green - are realistic horse-head props mounted on coloured poles, with handles on either side of the head. Players position the pole between their legs, hold the handles, and bounce and ride the horse forward with their arms and body. The game tends to pull a crowd once it's running - the sight of four adults bouncing on hobby horses at full effort is usually enough.

We include a member of staff for the whole hire to run the rounds, keep the game moving and help first-timers get started. It runs off a standard 13amp socket and sets up indoors, outdoors or in a marquee.

Equipment details

• Four-player racing game, one player per colour (blue, yellow, red and green)
• Racecourse unit: 1.7m long, 0.8m wide and 0.35m deep, transported in an industrial flight case
• Rounds take under a minute; a good number of players can take a turn over the course of an afternoon or evening
• Built-in commentary announces the winner by colour and name, then resets for the next race
• Requires a standard 13amp mains socket
• Indoor, outdoor and marquee use; operated by our staff throughout

Works well at

Corporate fun days and office parties, birthday parties and family events, school fetes, charity fundraisers and community events. It also suits exhibition stands and trade show floors, where short rounds mean a steady flow of visitors can take a turn without a long wait, and the commentary carries across a busy hall. It suits events with a racing or country theme, and is a natural choice around the Grand National or Cheltenham Gold Cup.

Gold Cup Horse Racing Challenge hire in Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex and London

We've run Monster Event Hire from our unit in Havant since 2002 and all the kit is ours - no sub-contracting. The staff who come with it are RPII-trained, first-aid certified and enhanced-DBS registered, which is worth knowing for any booking involving children, schools or council events. The electrics are PAT-tested every year and we carry £10 million public liability insurance with the certificate on request, plus additional licensed-premises cover for pubs, clubs and bars.

If you want more racing at the same event, the racing simulator is a different kind of speed game. Have a look at the full electronic games range for everything else.