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Originally Posted by Tom
This is the condition NYRA has been using for a while now.
Basically, you can run claimers and not get them claimed.
Keep you eyes open in these.
I posted on at NYRA here last year or so that paid like $15.00 and it had won 8 races - nothing else in the field had won more than 1.
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That's an interesting angle, and probably works best at those mid-odds range, where the horse is slightly dismissed.
There was a similar one at Gulfstream over the past couple days. Paid pretty good in a full field IIRC.
One of the last things I remember my father telling/talking me about horseracing was
"these starter allowance horses stink"...
I'm no historian, but I have a vague impression that
'Allowance' races were serious races during the 70's and 80's, while today that group a notch below stakes races is mostly called
'Optional Claiming'.
