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Originally Posted by VigorsTheGrey
Santa Anita has exactly ZERO Starter Allowances carded for the next thru tomorrow to the 15th of Jan per the condition books, although they had a few the first week through Jan1.
Maybe they should start carding more of these races in the future,
is the demand there from trainers...?
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It's true that you seem to see a lot more of them at the smaller handle tracks. They basically just run N2L's for higher priced claimers at both SA and DelMar. However, LosAl will write races for lower level clamers, with more open conditions. I don't watch the mid-Atlantic tracks much, but I've noticed tracks like Penn seem to have more of them.
Edit: On Super Bowl Sunday, Santa Anita will run a small stake race called the Super Bowl Handicap, or something to that effect. They've been running it for years. If I'm not mistaken, it's basically a $25K starter allowance of sorts.