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Originally Posted by freddymo

How do they get away with offering such horrible pots and why? Why would anyone race claimers on dirt at TB. I get the mdn turf races and how insignificant the purses are if you have to have turf but claimer on dirt WTF? 800 bucks gets your horse to FG, Oak, Philly, NY even Penn. People like racing for 8000 purse instead of 15-25k all for a 800 dollar ride to somewhere

The main reason is that the horseman organization there is run by clowns who want to keep purses depressed so that the place wont be more attractive for guys with better horses. If you are from Suffolk Downs you need someplace to go in the Winter. 20% of the horses that race there are training in Ocala and have to run somewhere. Some of the more established outfits use the place to winter like Proctor and have just enough bad maidens and turf horses to run to keep their stall allotment.

There are enough struggling and broke outfits there that need to run as much as possible and they keep the field size up. I quit running there much a few years ago because blowing conditions for cheap pots is counter productive in regards to the fiscal health of your horse operation. Look at Prospect Knight at Philly today. He has made 30k since late October. Had we shipped to Tampa he would have made 12k running in the same conditions. That is the difference between breaking even or making a few dollars and losing money.