Well, this isn't good...

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Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

If I'm going to claim a horse for $5,000 I want to win as many open 5K claimers with him as possible...

I get all this, but that isn't the way the game was supposed to played. You didn't expect to lose 5k horses because they were legitimate $5k horses. People claimed horses because they thought they were undervalued, not valued just right. Slots changed all that, and the horses get the short end of the stick.

This isn't a new thing as you know. The purse/claiming price ratio has been a problem for a decade, but it is mostly at places where nobody notices outside of us diehards. It was never going to fly in New York when horses started breaking down.