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Horse Race Tests, also known as Test Horse Race or Horse Racing Tests, refers to an unreleased video game by Twitter / X user @snakesandrews showing horse icons randomly bouncing around a green maze, representing a race track, to the end goal of a carrot. @snakesandrews ran the prototype simulation every day at noon in early April 2025. Each day, viewers guess which horse will win the day's race. The tweets generated buzz on X via fan art and viral discourse. Fandoms for each colored horse also grew with the game. For instance, many jokes were made about the cyan horse never winning a race.

History

On April 1st, 2025, X^[1] user @snakesandrews tweeted, "New prototype," showing a video game of colored horse icons bouncing around in a maze. The tweet received over 740 likes in eight days (shown below).

new prototype pic.twitter.com/PY1WK1kgP9

— Horse Master (BLA?) (@snakesandrews) April 1, 2025

On April 2nd, X^[2] user @snakesandrews shared another video, called "Test race 2," showing the same prototype but with more features, like sound effects for the horses hitting the walls and an ending animation showing the color of the horse that won. In a week, the tweet received over 4,400 likes (shown below).

test race 2 pic.twitter.com/d6AFukb9gr

— Horse Master (BLA?) (@snakesandrews) April 2, 2025

On April 3rd, 2025, X^[3] user @snakesandrews shared "Test race 3," gaining over 6,100 likes in six days. The user continued uploading race recordings at 12 p.m. on every following day. For instance, on April 6th, 2025, X^[4] user @snakesandrews shared parts 1 and 2 of "Test horse race 6," gaining over 1.8 million views and 21,000 likes in three days (shown below).

test horse race 6 part 1 pic.twitter.com/nWEkXnd4KR

— Horse Master (BLA?) (@snakesandrews) April 6, 2025

test horse race 6 part 2 pic.twitter.com/gXBVWP4cSn

— Horse Master (BLA?) (@snakesandrews) April 6, 2025

Fandom

In early April 2025, viral tweets and memes about the Horse Racing Tests surfaced en masse.

For instance, on April 3rd, X^[5] user @johnnys74231614 shared one of the first memes about the game, showing the orange horse with a hat, writing, "Gave my chud son a hat because I love him," gaining over 250 likes in six days (shown below).

On April 4th, X^[6] user @wizardzzpellz shared fan art of the blue horse, captioned, "Place your bets," receiving over 1,100 likes in five days (shown below).

On April 6th, 2025, X^[7] user @F1l_ters tweeted, "A leisurely day off after the race," attaching fan art of all the horses resting in a yard, gaining over 12,000 likes in three days (shown below).

On April 7th, X^[8] user @PetrichorCrown tweeted fan art of the cyan horse with text reading, "I bet on losing dogs," amassing over 11,000 likes in two days (shown below).

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