Reading Race Results Help?

[Hopeful Hunter]

I need help understanding the following headers at the top of the lifetime race record I have.

They are as follows and I have filled in what I've been able to guess :
Date : The date the race happened.
Track and Race # Track abbreviation and the race # for that day.
Dist/Furl - The distance in furlongs.
Trk/Con - I think this means the condition of the track, but the acronyms are not easily translated.
Race/Type - ?
Value of Race - Is this the total amount of the purse, split between the top placers?
Weight in Lbs - What the horse had to carry, tack and jockey?
PP - ?
FP - ?
Lengths - Is this how many lengths the winner won the race ahead of the 2nd position horse?
Earned - I assuming this means what the horse you are seeking info on actually earned in the race.
Winner's Time - The winner's time, (that one wasn't so hard)
Claim Price - This I don't understand at all.
# RN - ?


And then below there is a Leader's Time list with three different sets of numbers, not sure on that either.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[Lucy]

You did a good job guessing! Here's a webpage that explains the charts really well -

http://www.drf.com/flash/drf_pp_tutorial.html

That should answer the rest of your questions....but if not, just holler.

[Hopeful Hunter]

Ahh, thank you! This was a great site. I was able to answer almost all of my questions.

Could you give me an understanding of the claim price piece of it though? I saw Dreamer, , but I still don't understand what that means exactly. My horse's race record shows a claim price on all of his races. Does that mean that in each race he was available for someone to claim for that price? How exactly does that work?

Thanks again so much!

[Lucy]

Does that mean that in each race he was available for someone to claim for that price? How exactly does that work?

Yes, that's exactly what it means. Any other trainer at the meet could have bought him out of the race for the price listed.

I'm sure any of the owner/trainers around here can flesh this out more, but in a nutshell, if someone wants to claim a horse, they fill out a form before the race. The claims are not announced until after the race, but once the gates open, the horse is considered sold - even if it doesn't finish, the new owner has to pay up.

If more than one person has placed a claim on the same horse, then the winner is drawn at random (a "shake").