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Old 02-18-2012, 06:14 PM
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Originally Posted by v j stauffer View Post
No one in the field is "allowed" to scratch. By the same token no one can be forced to run a horse they don't wish to.

At Santa Anita if a horse scratches out of the body of the race such as today. That horse is on the "list" and cannot enter in another race for 10 days.
Seems a bit short. Since horses hardly run more than once a month these days anyway, maybe it should be changed to 30.
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