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The other is an allowance/optional claimer for Cal-bred fillies and mares going 5 ½ furlongs.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2019

But before we get to the stakes, the fourth is a 6 ½ furlong allowance/optional claimer.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2019

Zuzanna was an $8,000 claimer last year when Kurt and Brian Ferguson and Jeffrey Lambert headed the group that bought the mare.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2019

The feature is a six furlong allowance/optional claimer for horses 3 and up running for a purse of $53,000.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2019

On that date, Stagehand’s 100-pound impost was justified; he was only two years old, had never won or even run particularly well in any race, and he was about to begin 1938 as a claimer.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand