Terms of use

These terms cover galloppost.com and everything on it, including the demo at /play/. Using the site means you accept them. They were last read through on 18 October 2026.

• This is a newspaper about virtual racing. Everything on it is editorial.
• It takes no bets. There is no account that holds money and nothing to deposit or withdraw.
• The simulator is free, runs on play credits, and awards nothing. There is nothing to win and nothing to lose.
• The circuit is simulated. Its runners, venues, fields and results are not real racing and are never presented as real racing.
• Read, quote with a link, argue with the desk. Do not copy the site wholesale or pass its work off as yours.
• Nothing here is advice. Rely on your own judgement.
• Victorian law applies, and nothing in these terms takes away a right you have under the Australian Consumer Law.

Gallop Post publishes reporting about the real virtual racing industry — the shop-screen products, the suppliers, the broadcasts, the simulation games — and it runs a simulated circuit of its own across 10 venues, currently 21 published cards.

The circuit is a simulation. It is drawn by the GP-Draw 4.2 engine, every card publishes the seed and weighting table it was drawn from, and every page that prints circuit data says it is simulated. The runners, drivers, trainers and venues on it do not exist outside the engine. None of it is a record of a real race meeting, a real animal or a real person, and anyone representing it as such is misrepresenting it.

Form desk columns, previews and analysis are opinion. They are an argument about a published weighting, not a prediction, and a weighted draw cannot be predicted. The rules the desk works to are set out in the editorial policy, which is enforceable against the paper by anyone who finds it breached.

• This site does not accept bets or wagers of any kind, from anyone, on anything.
• It is not a bookmaker, a wagering service provider, a betting exchange, a tote or an agent for any of them. It holds no licence to be one and does not want one.
• No account on this site holds money, credit, tokens or anything else with a monetary value. A registration holds a username, an email address and a password hash, and that is all it has ever held.
• There is nothing to deposit, nothing to withdraw, no balance, no cash-out and no payment method on file. The site takes no payment from readers at all.
• Prices printed beside a runner are the draw weighting expressed in another notation. They are published with the card as reference figures. They are not odds available anywhere, they are not attributed to any bookmaker, and they are not an offer, an inducement or a recommendation.
• No promo codes, bonus offers, affiliate links or operator sign-up material appear anywhere on this site, and none will.

The demo at /play/ is a harness racing animation that demonstrates how a weighted draw looks on a screen. The terms of it are short.

• It is free to play. No money changes hands and no payment is possible.
• It runs on play credits. Credits are play-only, have no monetary value, and cannot be redeemed, transferred, exchanged, withdrawn or bought.
• There are no prizes, no leaderboard with a prize attached, and no reward of any kind. There is nothing to win and nothing to lose.
• No account is required to play it, and your play is not recorded on the server.
• It is a demonstration, not a game of skill, and not a product that trains you to do anything. The result is a weighted draw.
• If any of the above ever changed, this page would change first, and the page would say what had changed.

Read it, quote it with a link, print a page, send a page to someone, use the figures in your own argument. None of that needs permission.

These are the things that are not on:

• Copying the site, a section of it, or a substantial part of its data to republish as your own, with or without attribution.
• Automated scraping that costs the server real work — a crawler that ignores robots.txt, or anything hitting pages faster than a person reads them. If you want the circuit data, ask the desk; it is published as files for exactly this reason and nobody has to scrape it.
• Trying to break, overload, probe or get into any part of the site or the server behind it.
• Presenting the simulated circuit as real racing, or the reference prices as odds you can take, to anyone, anywhere.
• Using anything from this site in material that promotes a wagering operator, a tipping service or a staking system.
• Impersonating the paper, a member of the desk, or an author.

Breaking those loses you access, which in practice means the registration goes. There is no appeal process because there is nothing at stake: no money, no balance, nothing to recover.

• Registration is free and optional. It exists so that comments have a name attached. Use a handle if you prefer — the desk does not ask for a legal name.
• Keep your password to yourself. You are responsible for what is posted under your username, so tell the desk at [email protected] if you think someone else has it.
• Every comment is read by a person before it appears. The grounds for rejecting one are in the editorial policy, and they are the only grounds used.
• Posting a comment gives this paper permission to publish it on the site, keep it up beside the story, and quote it in a later piece with your username. It does not transfer your copyright: the comment stays yours.
• Do not post anything you do not have the right to post, anything defamatory, or anything that abuses another reader.
• A comment can be taken down on request. Ask, and it goes.
• A comment correcting the paper is published and then acted on. Being right is not grounds for moderation.

What a registration stores and how long it is kept is set out in the privacy policy.

• The writing, the design and the code are this paper's, © 2026 Gallop Post. The masthead and the name are ours as well.
• The circuit data — cards, fields, weighting tables, seeds, results, standings, venue geometry — is generated by this paper's own engine, so the paper owns it outright. That is worth stating because it is unusual: a publisher printing real Australian race fields needs an agreement with Racing Australia or an authorised distributor, state by state. This circuit raises none of that, because none of it is real.
• Quoting it is fine. Take a figure, a sentence or a table into your own piece with a link back and a credit to Gallop Post. No permission needed. Taking the whole weighting table of every card and republishing it as a data product is not quoting, and that one needs a conversation.
• The demo bundle at /play/ is third-party software, licensed by this paper and credited inside the game through its own credits button, which points at its developer, Code This Lab srl. It is not ours to relicense and you may not take it from this site to use elsewhere.
• Photographs of real racing, real screens and real venues are used under the licence they came with, and the real-world figures in a story carry the source and the date the desk read it, in the sentence.
• Your comment is yours, as set out in section 6.

If you think something on this site infringes your rights, write to [email protected] naming the page and the material. The desk answers that ahead of anything else in the inbox, as it does a correction.

Stories link out to sources: company filings, regulators, racing authorities, broadcasters, studios and the occasional trade publication. Those links are there so you can check the claim yourself.

• This paper does not control those sites and is not responsible for what is on them, what they collect, or what they change after the desk read them. Each source carries the date it was read for that reason.
• A link is not an endorsement, a partnership or a recommendation. No link on this site is paid for, and there are no affiliate links anywhere on it.
• Naming an operator, a supplier or a studio in a story is reporting, not a recommendation.
• The one link on this site that is a recommendation is the Gambling Help line, and it is there in every footer: 1800 858 858, free and available 24 hours, or gamblinghelponline.org.au.

What the paper promises is the editorial policy: sourced facts, printed corrections, published seeds, and no operator buying its way into a column.

What it cannot promise is this:

• That the site is always up. It is a small publication on one server.
• That every figure is right. The desk checks them and prints a correction when one is wrong, which is the honest version of a guarantee.
• That a third-party source it links to is accurate, or still says what it said.
• That reading a weighting table will do anything for you. It will not. A draw cannot be predicted, and the paper says so on every column.

So, plainly: the site is provided as it is, you use it on your own judgement, and this paper is not liable for a loss you suffer from relying on something you read here or from the site being unavailable. Nothing on this site is financial, legal or betting advice, and none of it is an inducement to wager.

One thing that cannot be signed away. Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies any guarantee, right or remedy you have under the Australian Consumer Law or any other law that cannot be contracted out of. Where a liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to supplying the service again, which for a free website means putting the page back up.

These terms are governed by the laws of Victoria, Australia. Any dispute goes to the courts of Victoria, and both of us accept their jurisdiction. The circuit clock runs on Australia/Melbourne for the same reason: this is a Victorian publication and the dates printed on it are Victorian dates.

If a court finds one part of these terms unenforceable, that part goes and the rest stands.

These terms change when something about the site changes. A change that matters — anything touching sections 3 or 4 in particular — is described at the top of this page when it is made, not folded into a new date at the bottom. The current version was read through on 18 October 2026.

Write to [email protected] about anything on this page, or to [email protected] for general enquiries. The contact form reaches the same inbox.