Hi Jeff
Our long friendship has shown me, We have a common bond,
We have had to endure a hard road, I know you have the skill
I feel for you. You have dreams. I see in you a desire to never give up.
I won't give up thinking it will all come together for you. My hope that soon your love of racing will reward you.
Dad and I were chatting the other day and he asked how you are doing.
I told him you are doing well, he admires you so much, You made a lasting impression on us both.
FTL knows so much,
Here is what I have learned from him.
The Optional Claiming condition,
Actually I posted a race yesterday from Del Mar It was an Allowance Optional Claimer
The winner of the race. Horse # 7 was the only horse eligible to be claimed.
They raised the horse in class after so much success at Golden Gate
None of the other horses in the race were up for sale. In the race, every other horse had recent wins at the CL40000 level. Today's race was for $62500
Not many older horses are going to be claimed for $62500. If they carded a race for 62500 the field would never fill. If a horse is worth 62500 and is offered for sale It will be claimed and the connections would lose probably one of the best horses in their barn. This field looked like a group of established claimers, Only horse 3 and the favorite horse 5 had any stakes races shown.
They have to add conditions to high level claiming races, There just are not that many places for them to compete in straight allowance Nonwinners X3
and they might be unable to win stakes races.
