11/12 (AQU): My Pal of Pals (AE 13)

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Originally Posted by Cuse Fan

Steve,

What determines whether or horse gets entered or ends up on the AE list? Are they randomly drawn? Seeded in some way? Other?

Thanks

It goes by a date system according to the last time the horse ran, or when the dates reset. The system can be somewhat Byzantine in determining what takes precedence, turf dates, NY bred dates, yadda yadda...unfortunately "Pal" has a "scratch date" (from last week) which is the worst type of date to have.