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Complete Guide to Claiming Thoroughbreds: Finding, Fixing, and Making Winners [Paperback]

Tom Ivers (Author)

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Publication Date: January 1999

Claim a horse with potential from someone who doesn't know what they have, take two seconds off the horse's time and start collecting the checks. The Complete Guide to Claiming Thoroughbreds tells you how to do just that. This book is aimed at the owners of claimers who want to start winning races and stop losing money. Tom Ivers tells you how to spot claimers at all price tags that you can improve and how to learn things about them that even the horse's trainer doesn't know.

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Tom Ivers is one of the leading equine exercise physiologists in the world. He has trained Thoroughbreds and Standardbreds and is an active consultant to owners and trainers. He has written seven books, publishes the Racing Science Review and produced numerous videos. He owns a consulting firm, Equine Racing Systems, in Washougal, Wash.

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From the Introduction: This books is about winning the claiming game. . . . If you follow all the rules modern horseracing has set up for you to obey without question, then you cannot possibly win the claiming game. The odds are at least 20 to 1 against your coming out of it with your shirt, no matter at what level you play. To beat those odds, you have to do almost everything differently than is conventionally done. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

Paperback: 268 pages
Publisher: Russell Meerdink Company (January 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0929346645
ISBN-13: 978-0929346649
Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,446,726 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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