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It's too bad the good old days of claiming a 5 to 10,000 claimer with 4 or 5 friends are gone. Trainer's put you on their badge list, and you would go to the racing office and get a parking and entry pass for all tracks. You could go to barn in the morning, track kitchen, and after races go back to the barn and check out your horse with friends. Stand around maybe have a few beers, and some laughs. You knew all the horses in the barn, the other owners, and everything about everyone's horses besides yours.
The end of year if you did a decent job claiming you showed a profit, and had a good time.
The sport has gone full circle from sport of Kings, where a little guy couldn't afford to be in the sport... to about 20 years where you could break even as a little guy... back to the sport of Kings where you can't afford to be in the game or you have to put up money for crazy schemes like the ones described here!!!
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Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
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