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It's been my experience that measures to keep bottom tags and purses in proportion aren't quite as noble in motive as those who propose them would have you believe.
Small outfits that focus on low claimers still outnumber their higher class peers at most tracks (an Aqueduct perhaps excluded) and don't want the better barns dropping 86 beyers on their heads.
If someone can show me definitive proof that breakdowns and pullups are a function of purse-ratio in cheap claimers, I might rethink this. Until then, I'll consider such concerns an elaborate ruse intended to make cheap races winnable for mediocre horses and barns.
Horseplayers just don't comprehend how counter their interests run to the agendas of most horsemen.
Last edited by mountainman; 10-26-2013 at 01:48 PM.
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