Selfie with recently claimed horse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nOne last way to get yourself a racing thoroughbred is to \u2018claim\u2019 one via some of the races put on especially for this purpose at just about every racecourse in the country.<\/p>\n
A Claiming Race is one in which each horse\u2019s racing weight is decided by the price placed on them by connections.\u00a0 In other words; the trainer may want to win the race and so would like his horse to carry less weight, however he will then have to place a low value on his horse making it easier for someone to \u2018claim\u2019 off him after the race and take out of his yard.<\/p>\n
Horses can be claimed, i.e. bought, by other owners or trainers for the specified price immediately after the race is run, though the rules for a Claiming Race or slightly different from those in a Selling Race.<\/p>\n
All of the runners in a Selling Race apart from the winner are entitled to be claimed for their set price, just like in a Claiming Race.\u00a0 In a Seller however, the winner only is then auctioned off in the ring after the race and so it is pot luck to an extent whether a potential new owner gets a real bargain, or sees the price of their potential new purchase rise too much.<\/p>\n
Buying in this way is not a way to find yourself a future star, as the vast majority of horses running in claimers or sellers are considered among the lowest rated horses on the circuit, whether on the flat or over the jumps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There\u2019s not one single way to buy a racehorse, in fact there isn\u2019t even one right way to buy a racehorse since it entirely depends on how your ambition and how your bank account stack up together. Although some horses may prove to be that one in a million that ends up winning you a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2024-05-03 21:00:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horseracingbettingsites.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horseracingbettingsites.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horseracingbettingsites.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horseracingbettingsites.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horseracingbettingsites.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.horseracingbettingsites.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750,"href":"https:\/\/www.horseracingbettingsites.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/177\/revisions\/750"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horseracingbettingsites.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horseracingbettingsites.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}