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Originally Posted by POINTGIVEN1985
i do not like betting claimers, i agree with the poster earlier who said at first dont bet maidens and cheap claimers, if i were you i would start with allowance and stakes races, allowance/optional claiming is ok you will find some hard knockers in those races, depending on where you are i wouldn't start off by betting ny breds or cal breds or any state breds, i would just look for open company stakes or allowance races.
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PG1985, to be clear, I'm not trying to pick on you....I've seen a few people post this on here. What's the big deal about betting claiming races?? I have always found them just as "game" as the stakes. If anything, the stakes/allowances/handicaps tend to be deeper, more contentious fields. Granted, the studs of the sport race in stakes which gives them a degree of predictability, but the information you use to look at a stakes race is, for the most part, the same as what a player looks at to play claimers. In fact, one might argue that after getting some familiarity with a track and the trainers/jocks/owners, claimers are as suitable to play as any.