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Location: The best kept secret in TX | I don't know. But Google Knew! https://www.toba.org/owner-education/claiming.aspx  |
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| you will first need a racing license in the state where you are trying to claim the horse. You will then have to have a trainers name to claim in. You will have to have $$ of money in your racing account( plus state sales tax) 15 mins prior to post time of the race the horse is in. The claim slip has to be filled out perfect, no misspellings at all or they will throw it out. If there is more then one claim on the horse you will have to shake for it. If you win its your horse, if it breaks down its still your horse... |
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| Strawfly - 2015-04-30 3:41 PM you will first need a racing license in the state where you are trying to claim the horse. You will then have to have a trainers name to claim in. You will have to have $$ of money in your racing account( plus state sales tax) 15 mins prior to post time of the race the horse is in. The claim slip has to be filled out perfect, no misspellings at all or they will throw it out. If there is more then one claim on the horse you will have to shake for it. If you win its your horse, if it breaks down its still your horse...
So like rock paper scissors or what? Do all states have sales tax on claimers? Specifically LA, NM, TX, or OK. |
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | Whiteboy - 2015-04-30 4:29 PM Strawfly - 2015-04-30 3:41 PM you will first need a racing license in the state where you are trying to claim the horse. You will then have to have a trainers name to claim in. You will have to have $$ of money in your racing account( plus state sales tax) 15 mins prior to post time of the race the horse is in. The claim slip has to be filled out perfect, no misspellings at all or they will throw it out. If there is more then one claim on the horse you will have to shake for it. If you win its your horse, if it breaks down its still your horse... So like rock paper scissors or what? Do all states have sales tax on claimers? Specifically LA, NM, TX, or OK.
Ok has no sales tax. If there is more than one claim dropped on a horse you go to the office and they have the claim forms and a pill box with that number of pills (numbered balls) in it. Claims are numbered, the ball that is pulled with the corresponding claim number is the winner. |
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| I saw a special on it and that is the limit of my knowledge. Sounds crazy too me that you are risking your horse being claimed but maybe most hope to have their horses bought at a claims race?? A couple of the trainers they were following were sweating bullets that their horse would be claimed. |
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| total performance - 2015-04-30 4:38 PM Whiteboy - 2015-04-30 4:29 PM Strawfly - 2015-04-30 3:41 PM you will first need a racing license in the state where you are trying to claim the horse. You will then have to have a trainers name to claim in. You will have to have $$ of money in your racing account( plus state sales tax) 15 mins prior to post time of the race the horse is in. The claim slip has to be filled out perfect, no misspellings at all or they will throw it out. If there is more then one claim on the horse you will have to shake for it. If you win its your horse, if it breaks down its still your horse... So like rock paper scissors or what? Do all states have sales tax on claimers? Specifically LA, NM, TX, or OK.
Okay so do I have to be present or can I get a trainer to do it for me and then ship me the horse and any idea what they would charge to do that if it is even possible?
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Location: Oklahoma | rodeomom3 - 2015-04-30 4:45 PM
I saw a special on it and that is the limit of my knowledge. Sounds crazy too me that you are risking your horse being claimed but maybe most hope to have their horses bought at a claims race?? A couple of the trainers they were following were sweating bullets that their horse would be claimed.
Huh??? Someone please explain this!! Why would you enter in a claiming race if you didn't want the horse claimed??? |
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| rodeomom3 - 2015-04-30 4:45 PM I saw a special on it and that is the limit of my knowledge. Sounds crazy too me that you are risking your horse being claimed but maybe most hope to have their horses bought at a claims race?? A couple of the trainers they were following were sweating bullets that their horse would be claimed.
Yeah I have a friend that has had some pretty successful TB's that have been claimed. He gets all huffy that they were claimed, especially when we remind him that it was his choice to put them in that race. lol |
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Location: Buffalo, Wyoming | Whiteboy - 2015-04-30 3:47 PM total performance - 2015-04-30 4:38 PM Whiteboy - 2015-04-30 4:29 PM Strawfly - 2015-04-30 3:41 PM you will first need a racing license in the state where you are trying to claim the horse. You will then have to have a trainers name to claim in. You will have to have $$ of money in your racing account( plus state sales tax) 15 mins prior to post time of the race the horse is in. The claim slip has to be filled out perfect, no misspellings at all or they will throw it out. If there is more then one claim on the horse you will have to shake for it. If you win its your horse, if it breaks down its still your horse... So like rock paper scissors or what? Do all states have sales tax on claimers? Specifically LA, NM, TX, or OK.
You do not have to be present, or at least we never were. We have a trainer friend in CA that claimed all of our horses for us. |
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| Do they allow for anytype of vet check at all? |
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | Whiteboy - 2015-04-30 4:56 PM Do they allow for anytype of vet check at all?
You don't have to be present, but someone does. And NO vet check...they are in for a tag so you get what you get. Risky yes, but I have gotten some nice ones off of claims. You need to do your homework when you are going to get in the claiming game. |
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | Whiteboy - 2015-04-30 4:47 PM total performance - 2015-04-30 4:38 PM Whiteboy - 2015-04-30 4:29 PM Strawfly - 2015-04-30 3:41 PM you will first need a racing license in the state where you are trying to claim the horse. You will then have to have a trainers name to claim in. You will have to have $$ of money in your racing account( plus state sales tax) 15 mins prior to post time of the race the horse is in. The claim slip has to be filled out perfect, no misspellings at all or they will throw it out. If there is more then one claim on the horse you will have to shake for it. If you win its your horse, if it breaks down its still your horse... So like rock paper scissors or what? Do all states have sales tax on claimers? Specifically LA, NM, TX, or OK.
It's best to find a trainer that you know, they might possibly charge you a couple hundred to claim one. Keep in mind though some tracks require the horse run the rest of the meet where the horse was claimed. |
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | Longneck - 2015-04-30 4:48 PM rodeomom3 - 2015-04-30 4:45 PM I saw a special on it and that is the limit of my knowledge. Sounds crazy too me that you are risking your horse being claimed but maybe most hope to have their horses bought at a claims race?? A couple of the trainers they were following were sweating bullets that their horse would be claimed. Huh??? Someone please explain this!! Why would you enter in a claiming race if you didn't want the horse claimed???
It may be the only type of race the horse can be competitive in. Not all horses are stakes or allowance horses. Therefore they have claiming races to make it a bit easier on the ones that aren't. You are taking a chance on getting your horse claimed, but that's the chance you take when entering. |
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| total performance - 2015-04-30 5:26 PM Longneck - 2015-04-30 4:48 PM rodeomom3 - 2015-04-30 4:45 PM I saw a special on it and that is the limit of my knowledge. Sounds crazy too me that you are risking your horse being claimed but maybe most hope to have their horses bought at a claims race?? A couple of the trainers they were following were sweating bullets that their horse would be claimed. Huh??? Someone please explain this!! Why would you enter in a claiming race if you didn't want the horse claimed???
Thanks, I could not understand why they entered if they did not want their horse claimed and they did not elaborate. I thought it might be that the claims race was their best shot at placing. |
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Location: Oklahoma | total performance - 2015-04-30 5:26 PM Longneck - 2015-04-30 4:48 PM rodeomom3 - 2015-04-30 4:45 PM I saw a special on it and that is the limit of my knowledge. Sounds crazy too me that you are risking your horse being claimed but maybe most hope to have their horses bought at a claims race?? A couple of the trainers they were following were sweating bullets that their horse would be claimed. Huh??? Someone please explain this!! Why would you enter in a claiming race if you didn't want the horse claimed???
Thanks for the insight! |
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Location: Southeast Louisiana | rodeomom3 - 2015-04-30 6:33 PM
total performance - 2015-04-30 5:26 PM Longneck - 2015-04-30 4:48 PM rodeomom3 - 2015-04-30 4:45 PM I saw a special on it and that is the limit of my knowledge. Sounds crazy too me that you are risking your horse being claimed but maybe most hope to have their horses bought at a claims race?? A couple of the trainers they were following were sweating bullets that their horse would be claimed. Huh??? Someone please explain this!! Why would you enter in a claiming race if you didn't want the horse claimed???
As I understand it, most horses in a claims race, their owners are hoping they do get claimed. They are usually there because they can't compete in the regular races, like someone else mentioned.
However, some horses maybe aren't ready to run at a higher level. Or the trainer knows they don't have a good shot at winning a race for whatever reason (they've been injured, haven't responded well to training yet or whatever) but they think the horse will eventually make a race horse. They're race horses and they only make money when they win, so for whatever reason the trainer enters them in the claims races because that's the only level they feel they can compete at. With some horses, they hope it's a good training opportunity or just hope to make some money by winning a lower level race and get to keep their horse. |
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| Don't quote me but here in CA I think they have a new rule about the horse breaking down during the race and you don't have to claim. I would need to check. I got my DTF from the racetrack but let's just say I was told to leave the truck running, don't stop even if they wave me down at the gate, don't ask questions and pull up to the back gate at 5AM and you can avoid all that! Lol |
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | I do believe CA has implemented the new rule that a horse in a claiming race that gets claimed and breaks down the claim is VOID |
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