I'm huge into understanding race conditions and try to keep up on all the subtleties that are written into them, but in the 1st at Santa Anita on 1/3/2021, I can't figure out for the life of me how the
or
are eligible for this race. They both won at MSW, and they've both cleared this class condition, though in AOC, but neither were in for a tag in their state bred AOC wins. Is there a surface allowance? They get to clear statebred N1X on both dirt and turf? Whatever is going on here, I'm not privvey to it. I see the
has already run at this condition again 2 more times since clearing it, albeit, clearing it on dirt, and then competing the next 2 times on turf. The surface is the only thing I can guess. Anyone know the skinny on this?
Knowing conditions is very important in handicapping. This one has me flummixed.
