About Horse Race Picker

Horse Race Picker is a single-purpose web tool made by an independent developer based in the UK. It does one thing: turns a list of names into a random horse race and shows you the finishing order.

Why it exists

Most "fun" random name pickers either want an account, hide the actual picker behind a wall of adverts, only exist as a phone app, or are one page of a huge site that loads slowly on a classroom laptop. Teachers, raffle hosts and streamers just want to paste names and press a button. This site is that button.

Principles

• Fair by construction. Speeds come from the browser's cryptographic random generator on every frame. No weighting, no pre-chosen winner.
• Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for. It is a web page.
• Your data stays yours. Names are never uploaded. They are kept in your browser's local storage only so your list is still there tomorrow.
• Fast. The whole tool is one small page with no frameworks, so it loads in a second even on old school hardware.

What it is not

It is not a betting or gambling tool. It does not handle money, odds or wagers, and it has nothing to do with real horse racing events. The horses are cartoons.

Roadmap

• Offline edition: a single file that runs without internet, for schools with unreliable Wi-Fi.
• More race themes (ducks, turtles, cars, rockets) using the same fair engine.
• Embeddable version for slides and websites.

Contact

Suggestions and bug reports are welcome on the contact page.