Paying for mediocrity at Monmouth

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Originally Posted by Danzig

benny, why would a trainer run a horse above his class, when there will be races for the horse at the class in which he belongs?
monmouth is trying to build fields, and having a bit more money on the table is an enticement.
not sure, tho, that it's an inducement to run horses where they don't belong, or when they're sore or injured. it's money, but it's not a lot of money.

The logic that i never understood was that a trainer would be tempted to run an injured horse for a big pot as though the horse would have a better shot because the pot was bigger? Now you can make a case that unscrupulous trainers could more easily hide a horse they want to get rid of by claiming and dropping as a normal tactic because the size of the purse was making up the difference in the amount lost of of the claim price because of the drop in class. However there is a loophole or angle regardless of whatever rules are in place and in the end unscrupulous people are just that.