I get the emotional aspect of this. I get not wanting to lose a horse. I also get the economic side of this. However, all that has to be put aside because...it's business. If you don't want to lose the horse, don't put him in that spot. I get that you are now going to have to race above his/her head, but that's your choice. I bought a horse from out of town and raced him at the Meadowlands. Didn't work out the way I planned so I stuck him right into claimers. Got a second and a win in the same class. Fred Grant whispered to me one night that if I raced him back in the same spot, his owner was going to claim him. I said thanks, don't bother, buy him (I offered to split the tax). He passed, LOL. He also didn't claim him, LOL.
