Derby Owners Club
The Toolbox
For twenty years the Derby Owners Club community built its own tools: card editors, breeding calculators, whip-chart spreadsheets, relationship guides. Most players heard of them and never got them. This page is two things at once. First, it is where you download the project's own tools, open, browser-based, free. Second, it is an honest record of every tool the scene made, listed and credited by name so that work is not forgotten, even where it is not ours to hand out.
This page pairs with the English preservation record and the Japanese one, where the people and sites named below are documented in full.
These are the project's own tools. They run in your browser, they are free, and there is nothing to download and install. Your card files and horse data stay on your machine, in your browser, and are never uploaded. Think of them as the modern, browser-native successors to the old community spreadsheets: the same jobs those workbooks did, rebuilt so anyone can open them on a phone or a laptop without hunting down a decades-old Excel file.
The tools hub collects every browser tool the project ships in one place. The flagship pages below are the ones most people want first.
The three 2004 DOC Racing Handbooks by Michael Pule ("Michael in Tempe" of the Horse Stable, of doc.rbcb.net), the organised compendium of everything the 2004 community knew. Long heard of, rarely held. The original PDFs, hosted here with Michael's permission.
The table below documents the tools the DOC community built over two decades, drawn from the people and sites named on the preservation pages. It is a record and a credit, not a download mirror. Where a tool is the project's own, or a direct evolution of the old spreadsheets, it lives in the section above and you can use it now. Everyone else's work is listed here to honour it and to help you find the makers, several of whom are alive and named on the preservation record. This site hosts no game files and redistributes no one else's software, and there are no download links in this table except to the project's own successor pages.
We list and credit; we do not host other people's tools. A row here means the tool existed and names who made it. Where a maker is alive and reachable, that is noted so the community can ask them directly, on their own terms, about their own work.
| Tool | Maker | Year | What it did | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Super Juicer (spreadsheet) | Lance Woodrum | 2005 | The long-lived Excel card editor and progression workbook, posted to Arcade-Projects, the root of the US editing tradition. | Community claim Name of record only. The project's browser tools are its living successor: /tools/. |
| DOC Card Modifier (handle "Solinox") | Chris, Steel City Stables | 2007 | A commercial VB6 card reader, writer and editor with direct MSR206 read-write. | Community claim Commercial software; recorded, not distributed. Author attributed by JJ Kam, who resold it. |
| The whip-chart production template | "gerschsf" | 2003 | The spreadsheet the printed whip charts were generated from; the earliest dated US-scene tool. | Community claim Recorded. |
| The DOC Racing Handbooks (Beginners / Advanced / Mini) | Michael Pule ("the Horse") | 2004 | The organised compendium of everything the 2004 community knew, in three volumes. | Community claim Now hosted here with Michael Pule's permission, see "Community documents" above. The first third-party work on this page we can hand out, because its author said yes. |
| Wing's Menu | "Wing" | ~2004 | The scene's most-coveted whip chart, deliberately never released. | Lost Not recovered. |
| The Tokyo whip charts | "Ken Sakagami" (Japan) | ~2003 | Per-course expert charts; the Japanese material the US corpus was translated from. | Community claim Recorded. |
| Ayelis Relationship Guide v0.6 | Steven Mattison | 2007 | The definitive personality and relationship response guide. | Community claim Recorded. |
| richei_basics | Richie Perez | 2005 | The most quantitative English training and breeding write-up (the "blips" arithmetic). | Community claim Recorded. |
| YACardEmu | GXTX, with Bobby Dilley | modern | An open-source card-reader emulator that revived DOC card read and write on modern hardware. | Community claim Open source, maintained by its authors at github.com/DerbyOwnersClub/YACardEmu. Linked, not mirrored. |
| Arcade hardware toolkit (card-emulator, JVSCore, OpenJVS, NAOMI netboot) | Bobby Dilley | modern | The open hardware-side stack the cabinets lean on: a SEGA card reader/writer emulator in C (the DOC-relevant one), JVS I/O drivers and emulators, a Sega-Arcade JVS reference, and a NAOMI/Triforce netboot uploader. | Community claim Open source, maintained by the author at github.com/bobbydilley (card-emulator). Linked, not mirrored. |
| DOC_Menu (v48) | "Gewal" (Daniel Gewargis) | 2022 | A Windows card-reader emulator and GUI for DOC WE Rev C. | Community claim Recorded; author reachable. |
| ID3CARDEMU | "winteriscoming", with Metallic | 2016 | The ancestor NAOMI mag-card emulator the later DOC tools built on. | Community claim Recorded. |
| 16-Step Theory tools, parent and aptitude tables, breeding calculators | The Japanese community | 1999–2001 | The original instruments the whole game's play-science was built on. | Community claim The project rebuilt the foal calculator: /preservation/japanese#calculator. |
Makers are credited for public work only. Where a source used a handle, the handle is what appears here. Nothing on this page includes registration codes, keys, customer names, card data or game files, by design and on principle.