Selling Plates

[parlo]

A friend of mine asked me, whether there is a website, where you can see results of selling-plate-races in GB with the money charged for the horses and with the amount they were actually bought out?

Please, can you help us?

[bluechariot]

Look at the results section of the Racing Post and after the Tote dividends they state who was sold. EG Chepstow 2.55 Seller 26/05/08 "There was no bid for the winner. Comghaire was claimed by David Evans for £5400"

As regards the Claiming price that information is only on the hard copy of the post on the day of the race. I do not know of any other free site that carries what you are looking for.

[graysonscolumn]

That’s about the sum of it, yes. It’s a shame there’s nothing available that’s a bit less piecemeal – maybe even a column in the Weekender each week that simply lists all horses to have been auctioned or claimed in sellers and claimers over the previous seven days, plus the fee for which they went.

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[parlo]

Thank you very much for this imidiate respond – at least better than nothing at the RP. Hard task to figure out the selling plates.

[robnorth]

Not sure the word ‘plate’ is accurate anymore, since all races now have added prize money, rather than the stakes as part of the ‘plate’. That being said, the term ‘selling plate’ seems to have stuck.

[parlo]

Sorry, from my English racing-books I know the expression "selling plater" and I was inhibited to use the expression "selling race" in my initial question.

[Alderbrook]

Lower grade horses are still known as Platers, parlo. It’s just the race itself is more well known as a ‘Seller’ (or Claimer in that case) nowadays.

Your English is rather better than my German….

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