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03-17-2015, 05:47 PM
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Venue for March 21 - Aqueduct
Most of the time, our contest trail tries to include the top stakes races, and we follow the "blue bloods" of the thoroughbred world. For our contest on Saturday, we will have a change of pace and instead pay honor to the blue collar horses by playing the New York Claiming Championships at Aqueduct.
Aqueduct has seen the success of the Claiming Crown series elsewhere, so has inaugurated a series of 10 stakes races worth a total of $710,000, with each race open only to horses that have started for a claiming price this year or last year. There is a range of eligibility - two of the races are open to horses who have started for a claiming price of $12,500 or less, while at the other end of the spectrum is a race open to horses who have started for any claiming price, no matter how much. All in all, it should be an interesting day of racing. The purses are generally larger than most of these claimers normally run for, so the fields should be large. I would not be surprised to see horses ship in from other tracks as well. There are probably some trainers who have what I would call "starter handicap specialists", who have run for a tag last year and can now use that fact to enter a race such as this even though the horse may have been competing against much tougher competition recently. Anyway, I thought this would provide an interesting and competitive handicapping puzzle. The 10 race card should be enough to handle without any simos. 
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03-17-2015, 08:59 PM
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Alright Mr. Smarty Pants (BKA as The Professor). So it's been a looooong time since I (and others) took the SAT or the GRE (not sure if they even call them that anymore, who cares) but, but, but . . . this appears to have comparable signs.
    Why not. It'll be fungh?!
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03-19-2015, 06:40 AM
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Let it snow.Let it snow. Let it snow! (Friday)
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03-20-2015, 07:53 AM
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Aqueduct has canceled racing on Friday in the hope of getting the snow off the track quickly and running the all stakes card on Saturday.
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"The more I learn about humans, the more I love horses"
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03-20-2015, 09:08 AM
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4-5" of snow predicted for the New York area for Friday. Happy Spring everyone.
 Winter just won't let go.Disappointed that they canceled today's card - I was looking forward to Wonder Gal's making her return to the races. On the brighter side, they will be able to seal the track and should be able to have it cleared and ready for Saturday's card.
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