Claiming a Horse

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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

A lot of really expenses horses end up running in cheap claiming races. If you look at the 4th race this coming Thursday at Hollywood Park, there are a few fairly expensive horses in there. It is an $8,000 claiming race. Corvinus was purchased as a 2 year old for $110,000. Babcock Lake was purchased as a 2 year old for $100,000. Candy's Bro was purchased as a yearling for $90,000. All three of these horses are geldings. It's fairly common to see horses that sold for a few hundred thousand eventually running in cheap claiming races.

A horse does not know how much it cost a slow gelding no matter what the breed is still a slow gelding