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Originally Posted by oughtoh
It would be interesting if the horse that came in first got claimed and then got disqualified because he shouldn't have been in the race. Then would the claim still be good?
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This isn't your normal scenario where a horse is dq'd for interfering with another horse as that claim would still be good, and the positive out of that for the new barn is if the horse was in for a certain condition the new barn now gets to race for that condition as the horse didn't lose the condition.
This scenario is: was the horse actually allowed to race since it didn't meet the condition? If the stewards rule any other way but to take this horse down, the other owners and trainers in the race have a legitimate case against the track. Maybe someone who knows California racing rules can chime in.
