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OK, the feature is the seventh a 6 ½ furlong allowance/optional claimer for older horses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2020
Friday’s feature was a little on the light side, an allowance/optional claimer for 3-year-old fillies going a mile on the dirt for a purse of $57,000.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2020
The O’Neill barn picked up the gelding five races ago in a claimer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2020
The other is an allowance/optional claimer for Cal-bred fillies and mares going 5 ½ furlongs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 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
