Pedigree Query

Thanks for replies everyone. UmmYeah's explanation seems to make sense, and consistent with my observations of race conditions that I've seen. One thing still is under my skin. Why does the DRF refer to this letter designation as "beaten claimers" on their "Past Performance Explanation" page? Wouldn...

Still confused. I see many races listed in pp lines as Clm 5000N4L, which must obviously mean "non-winners of 4 lifetime". So the listing Clm 5000B is something different than at least NL4. And though I can't say for certain from my memory, I believe I've also seen other conditions applied to claimi...

Majxmom, thanks for your reply. My reference to "beaten claimers" is actually right out of the Daily Racing Form's "Past Performance Explanation" page, in the "abbreviations for types of races" section. Therein lies my confusion. I've seen the condition many times listed in a horses' past performanc...

Thanks for the tip. It turns out I forgot to include Skirting Disaster in my DRF watch list.

1 down and 10 to go!

But I'm going to check to make sure I didn't forget to include the others, too.

Thanks again.

If it means "have not won a race since a date for a specific claiming price", note that no date or claiming price is mentioned in the condition book for the Aqueduct race I'm referring to. The condition book just says: "Four Years Old and Upward foaled in New York State and approved by the New York ...

The 5th race at Aqueduct on Wednesday the 14th is shown in the DRF pp's as a "Clm 15000B". If that restricts horses that have lost, ie "been beaten", when running in a claiming race, then why is the 2nd entrant, Got Clearance, eligible? She's never even run for a tag, so how can she be a "beaten cla...

Deliverer Key Play Softly Spoken Choosing Actin Good Enjoyable Miller's Mint ** Silver Ferrari Antelope Thanks to the help of the board members, I discovered that the 3 horses below were inadvertantly left off of my DRF horse watch list. I'm still looking for info on the above 9. Skirting Disaster T...

Thanks for your response. I still wonder about the use of the letter "B" to describe this condition, and the use and background source of the terminology "beaten claimer". Or is the terminology "beaten claimer" even correct?

Thanks for any help on this question.

Specifically, the "B". Aqueduct's 5th race on 4-14 is this classification, per the pp's in the DRF. I used to think it meant horses who had been beaten sometime in the past when running for the listed claiming price or lower. But there are 2 horses in this race that don't meet what I thought the cri...