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Conditioned
stakes, for three-year-olds and up, nonwinners of a sweepstake or nonwinners
of a specified amount since a specified date.
FORM:
Has
raced within six weeks, regular sharp workouts since.
DISTANCE:
If four,
has won at exact distance;
If three, has won or finished close at exact distance or at related
distance.
(During the
first four months of the season the above requirements and preferences
below apply also to races restricted to four-year-olds and older)
HANDICAPPERS
PREFER:
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.
In
the absence of the above, prefer:
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.
REGULAR,
ELIMINATIONS:
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.
EXTRA
ADDED ATTRACTIONS
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.
SPECIAL
CONDITIONS:
ON
TURF, PREFER:
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.
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