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General Category => Harness Racing => Topic started by: dinkadoo on November 01, 2023, 08:26:02 AM
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NW of $1500 L4 for KY trainers
Purse $17,000
Handle $ 3.837
Bad part of this.... if you win, you have to move up about 6 classes.
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NOT TRUE. Read the condition sheet. You move up ONE CLASS. It clearly states in the next class up AE: starters in this class or lower.
Great program. If all the tracks were run like Kentucky the industry would be in much better shape.
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When many racetracks first opened as new tracks with slots, the same scenario was in play. I am speaking of Thoroughbred tracks. They still had the same horsemen and horse population with a barn full of $5k claimers. So they wrote races and conditions from the available horse population. $5K claimers up to say $20K.
Guys were taking $20 claimers and dropping in for a $5K tag. With the purse being $30K the risk was minimal.
Allowance races offered a lucrative safe haven as their purse went from $9K to $40K. Finishing 2nd and keeping your conditions was the game.
Presque Isle Downs was a perfect example of this. Of course things have changed but, it was wild for a while.
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isn't this the last week they are open?
It is a very short meet
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isn't this the last week they are open?
It is a very short meet
Yeah next week is their final week.
4 weeks of racing, 3 days a week.
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NOT TRUE. Read the condition sheet. You move up ONE CLASS. It clearly states in the next class up AE: starters in this class or lower.
Great program. If all the tracks were run like Kentucky the industry would be in much better shape.
you got a decent horse that you can sneak into a bottom class - you can rack up some big cash in a few starts.