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The O’Neill barn picked up the gelding five races ago in a claimer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2020
The feature on Friday was an allowance/optional claimer for fillies and mares going six furlongs for a purse of $45,000.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2019
The feature on Friday’s turf-less card was a six-furlong allowance/optional claimer for horses running for a purse of $53,000.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2019
Second-level allowance/optional claimer going one mile on turf and this sophomore filly from the Bob Hess stable might be able to take them all the way on the front end.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 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
