Claiming prices

[thedarkknight]

Wonder if anyone can help…

Is there anywhere one can find out what a horse was "in" for in a claimer that has already been run? It can be worked out from the race conditions and weights that are published in the RP, but I am struggling to find them for past races as the online RP doesn’t include the race conditions/weights/values etc?

Thanks.

[apracing]

TDK,

I don’t know of anywhere that this info is published or stored. It’s possible to work it out approximately for a race in which one or more horses was actually claimed by comparing the weights, but even then you are guessing at the allowances (i.e how many lbs off per £1000) and you might need to know the weight for age scale at the date of the race.

It really wouldn’t be too difficult for the Post to include the claiming price in the form, but I suspect that forward looking progressive organisation, the NTF, would object. Not much chance of selling your horse for 25,000gns at the sales if everybody knows it was on offer for £18k after a claimer three runs back – and yes that is a specific example from last week.

Perhaps we could look to Timeform to give a lead in this area?

AP

[thedarkknight]

Thanks AP. To be honest I was banking on you knowing how it could be found! Another example of how information-poor British racing is…..

[carvillshill]

If you subscibe to the programme book through Weatherby’s you should be able to work it out from the printed race conditions. Corals should be able to afford it!

[carvillshill]

I have the latest volume of the programme book from Oct 1st if that’s any use- PM me and I can work out your query if it dates from then.

[thedarkknight]

CH – thanks for the offer but davidjohnson has already kindly answered my query via PM.

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