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Alrighty. Re-read it, assuming no typo.
It now looks very N2L, however, the entered horse may be the winner of any maiden claiming race, and must have been entered at some time in a claiming race with a tag of $50K or less. This eliminates the MSW winners, but because the win is not restricted as to what claiming price the maiden win could have been attained at, the winners of those high priced maiden claiming races for 2yos and 3yos are eligible, as are the older horses on the turf for Mdn$62.5K, as long as they get entered for $50K or less at some time.The state bred allowance ineligibility needs to be written into the condition because in the conditions for those particular races it is written that winning of the state bred allowance will not be counted against eligibility. You'd think "other than maiden of claiming" would cover that, but no harm in closing a potential loophole.
Winners of MSW and those that broke maiden in state bred allowance, which there have been a few here and there, particularly down the hill, no longer are eligible for the StAlw condition. That looks to be the only change to it.
This will encourage the writing of more $40K N2L claimers, as MSW winners that weren't good enough for the N1X company, before the initial change a couple years ago, had to go to Cl$25K if they wanted to face N2L. I think a lot of connections thought that drop too steep for their MSW winners, and that's why they worked the MSW winners into the StAlw condition. But with the higher priced N2Ls they've been offering here and there over the past few meets, they can make the StAlw condition for the cheaper maiden breakers, as was the nature of the race for so many years.
If this is it, I like it. Before when the MSW winners weren't eligible for StAlwN2L, there were some subtle handicapping variables in the N2L world that even seasoned handicappers missed. Those variables are revived. There were many times when the TVG commentators, while discussing the race, totally misinterpreted those variables. I know they're not alone.
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