Has raced within six weeks, regular sharp workouts since.

1. A thee-year-old that has finished in-the-money or run
close in a Grade I or Grade II stakes for its own age.
2. A four-year-old that has finished in-the-money in an
open listed stakes for older horses.
3. Any lightly raced, rapidly improving three-year-old
that has won successively and impressively under
nonwinners allowance conditions.

4. The three or four-year-old that has recently run the
most impressive race in an open stakes open to older
horses.
5. Any highly consistent four-year-old, including horses
entered in claiming races, that have won two of their
latest six while competing for winner shares just below
any specified prices in the stakes conditions.

1. Horses six-years-old and older.
2. Any five-year-old that does not compete regularly in stakes, and has been unable to finish first or second when entered in conditioned stakes.
3. Previous open stakes winners returning to action after layoffs of nine months or longer, notably if workouts are short, irregular, or unimpressively easy, and the distance and footing are not just right.
4. Unexceptional looking three-year-olds, and three-year-olds previously entered to be claimed.

1. A second-place finish in a stakes last time out.
2. A favorable jockey switch combined with a change to a
more favorable distance or footing.
3. Aged three or four, lightly raced, improved form and record recently after several dull efforts, much-improved workouts since showing better form.

1. Previous turf winners, with preference to four-year-olds.
2. Highly impressive three-year-olds with top turf breeding, especially if no horses four and up have won smartly on turf under nonwinners twice allowance conditions or better.