Daily Races

Daily Races is a 1947 single-player pinball machine with a horse racing theme, credited to an unknown manufacturer. According to IPDB, it is actually a conversion of Bally's 1941 title Jockey Club, meaning it reuses that earlier game's hardware and playfield with new horse-racing dressing rather than being an original design.

Conversion games like Daily Races were a common practice in the coin-operated amusement industry, allowing operators to refresh older machines with new themes and artwork at a fraction of the cost of a brand-new game, particularly in the years just after World War II.

Because the original manufacturer of this specific conversion is unknown, details about who performed the conversion or distributed Daily Races are not documented. Its horse racing theme and connection to Bally's Jockey Club nonetheless make it an interesting example of the conversion-game practice in postwar pinball.