Horse Racing Themed Online Pokies

The Australian horse racing season has about a month to go. There are a few races with million dollar plus purses that will be on the sights of the punters. At online casinos there are two fantastic horse racing themed online pokies that are drawing high traffic.

Rival Gaming powers leading online casinos like Joe Fortune and Ignition Casino. It offers a video pokie titled A Day at the Derby in its portfolio. The reels are set in the background of a picturesque horse race track that becomes totally visible when the reels spin. The background audio plays the cheering of the crowds. All the symbols are thematic and include trophy, male race goer, female race goers, horse shoes, cold drink, binoculars, betting slip, jockeys and horses. The win animations bring the race day alive on the screen. The best is the betting slip turning into wads of cash. The brown horse is the wild symbol that appears only on reels 1, 2 and 3. The payouts are multiplied by the number of wild symbols on the reels.

The blue jockey triggers the free spins when three or more appear scattered on the reels. You can win up to 20 free spins in which all payouts are tripled. The bonus game on the second screen is triggered by three or more grey horses appearing anywhere on the reels. It simulates a horse race. You have to back one of three horses. The virtual race plays out on the screen, complete with the frozen finish snapshot. The player receives bonus credits depending on the position of his horse.

Derby Dollars is the horse racing themed online pokie from Realtime Gaming. It can be played at Australian online casinos like Fair Go. Thee reels are set in the background of a race track as usual. The high paying symbols are female race goer, jockey, trophy and binoculars. These symbols start paying even with combinations of two like symbols aligned left to right on an active payline. The horse is the wild symbol and also awards the highest line payout of 3,333 times the line bet. The gold coin is the scatter symbol that awards payouts multiplied by the total bet and also triggers the free spins feature. But the symbols have to appear left to right. You are awarded up to 25 free spins with all payouts tripled. During the feature additional wild and scatter symbols are added to the reels. Derby Dollars online pokie also includes the Realtime Gaming randomly triggered progressive jackpot.