Beulah, River Downs the next to go...

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Originally Posted by ArlJim78

i think you could tell the difference in GR1's from 5K claimers if you've been watching that long. cheap horses don't look as fluid, have shorter strides in the stretch, etc. if the classes were closer, like gr3 vs. allowance, or higher claimers vs allowance, i agree that without any visual cues it would be hard to know the difference.

Maybe so, i was just defending river downs and beulah on the comment they were rubbish. I get just as excited in the stretch run in a claimer(if my horse is in lead or coming hard ) as i do stakes races. The person who said river has a nice turf course is very correct. They were running these way back before it was popular. very nice track. Just cheap horses.