TurfPedia™ - The Horse Racing Encyclopedia

NONWINNERS ALLOWANCES

For nonwinners four times other than maiden or claiming, all ages.

FORM:

Has reached peak performance levels, through recent racing and workouts.

DISTANCE:

Has won at exact or related distance.

HANDICAPPERS PREFER:

1. A stakes winner, preferably of an open stakes.
2. An increasingly powerful winner of three allowances races that has finished in-the-money or close to the winner in an open stakes.
3. Horses that have won three nonwinners allowance races impressively in no more than six tries and are competing under today's conditions for the first or second time.

REGULAR ELIMINATIONS:

1. Horses four or older that have never beaten half the field in an open stakes.
2. Horses that failed to finish in-the-money when entered in a conditioned stakes.
3. Horses that have not yet won three allowance races.
4. Horses that have previously been entered to be claimed.
5. Nonstakes-winning three-year-olds trying the distance or footing for the first time.

EXTRA ADDED ATTRACTIONS:

1. Has won an open stakes race.
2. Multiple allowance winners aged four that are dropping from classified allowance conditions where they have won or finished close while competing for a purse higher than today's.

SPECIAL CONDITIONS:
On turf, prefer:
1. Horses that have won more impressively on turf than on dirt.
2. Stakes winners or contenders on dirt, well bred for turf.