Bank of screens in a betting shop showing animated race cards between the races

The news desk

Virtual racing news

16 stories, newest first: what the circuit ran, what the industry shipped, and what this desk got wrong.

16Stories
6Categories
18 OctLatest
1Corrections

Industry

as at 25 October 2026

Games 15 Oct 2026

What the simulators do differently

Photo Finish LIVE, ZED RUN, Rival Stars and the rest resolve a race by modelling a horse. A shop-screen draw models nothing at all.

Ilsa Brandt · 5 min

Correction 13 Oct 2026

Correction: The Global Draw went to Scientific Games, not Inspired

A column of 29 September said Inspired inherited The Global Draw. It did not, and the only real link is one person's biography.

Gus Abernethy · 2 min

Industry 11 Oct 2026

Trackside: an Australian circuit documented by its own patent

A Keno-style draw picks an index number, the index points at a finishing order, and the animation is made afterwards.

Gus Abernethy · 3 min

Industry 9 Oct 2026

Three televised virtuals, and what each one proved

One named the real winner, one took money on a race that was already on tape, and one put Frankel in the Cox Plate.

Gus Abernethy · 3 min

Industry 7 Oct 2026

Who built the screen wall, and when it went up

The earliest date anyone will put in writing is 2001, and it comes from the company that builds the races.

Gus Abernethy · 3 min

Prices on this page are the draw weighting in another notation. They are reference figures published with the card, not odds available anywhere, and not a betting recommendation.

What the desk covers

Two beats. The industry: RNG racing on shop and online screens, the televised one-offs, and the simulators people play. And this paper's own circuit — 10 venues, 21 published cards, and the weighting table every result was drawn from. Industry figures carry their source and date in the sentence.

Start with the method

Reading a weighting table16 Oct 2026

A weighted draw has no form to read. How a virtual race is decided works through the arithmetic.

The latest correction

Correction: The Global Draw went to Scientific Games, not Inspired13 Oct 2026

Corrections run in the first line of the column, never at the foot of it.

Next on the circuit

Circuit clock, 25 October 2026.

Virtual racing news

Industry

What the simulators do differently

Correction: The Global Draw went to Scientific Games, not Inspired

Trackside: an Australian circuit documented by its own patent

Three televised virtuals, and what each one proved

Who built the screen wall, and when it went up

The circuit wrap