How to Use claiming race in a Sentence

claiming race

noun

• Give him the slight edge in what looks like a very well matched claiming race.
  — Mike Battaglia, The Courier-Journal, 21 June 2018
• Give her the slight edge in what looks like a very well-matched claiming race.
  — Mike Battaglia, The Courier-Journal, 8 June 2018
• Five of the races are some type of claiming race, and three races are on the turf (the third, fifth and seventh).
  — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• There is only one sprint on Friday’s card, the sixth, a claiming race, all the rest are at least 1 mile.
  — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• The 7-year-old has won his past four starts, all optional claiming races.
  — Tim Dwyer, Sun-Sentinel.com, 22 Dec. 2017
• One is to sell the horse at a claiming race; the other is to ship it to Mexico, where it will be destroyed.
  — Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• The claiming race was Rich Strike’s only win before the Derby.
  — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 8 May 2022
• The 13-race card is arguably the best in the history of the race track, with only one claiming race and $3.1 million in purses.
  — Dick Jerardi, Philly.com, 18 Sep. 2017
• His last race was a third-place finish in a claiming race at Santa Anita on Dec. 27.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2021
• This was his sixth race, having won a maiden claiming race two races before this.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2020
• The last of those came Nov. 30, when Art Collector won an optional claiming race by 7 ½ lengths.
  — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 23 Aug. 2020
• At the time of the sale he had been entered in a low-level claiming race by its former owner, Calumet Farm, which has won a record eight Derbys.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 8 May 2022
• Seventeen were during claiming races, in which the horses are up for sale for a certain price.
  — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 22 June 2019
• The older boy’s mother claimed race was a factor in the investigation.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2019
• Squeaky Cheeky went down several yards beyond the finish line after running in a 6 ½-furlong maiden claiming race on the turf.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2021
• The feature on Friday was a 5 ½-furlong allowance/optional claiming race for fillies and mares.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2020
• Then again there is a start allowance, which is basically a claiming race in which horses can’t be claiming.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
• Tampa Bay Downs, Soup and Sandwich won a three-horse allowance optional claiming race.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 26 Apr. 2021
• Hollendorfer lost the first horse that died at Santa Anita during the recent season when Psychedelicat had to be put down Dec. 30 after a claiming race on the dirt.
  — Elliott Almond, The Mercury News, 26 June 2019
• But the horse spiked a fever and altered those plans, with Prevalence ultimately winning an optional-claiming race on March 11 at Gulfstream.
  — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 2 Apr. 2021
• On Saturday, My Child Sbud fractured his left front ankle while running in a claiming race and was euthanized later that day.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2021
• In the only non-claiming race on Friday’s card, Crystal Ball ran a perfect race in second under Prat until the top of the stretch and then motored home to win a one-mile allowance/optional claimer for fillies and mares.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2021
• Santa Anita had its fourth equine death of its five-week fall meeting on Saturday when Major Cabbie broke down on the backstretch of a one-mile claiming race and was euthanized.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2021
• The early program featured two higher-value claiming races.
  — Hal Lundgren, Houston Chronicle, 17 Mar. 2018
• Basically, every race is either a maiden or claiming race.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2019
• The formula is not complicated: more races for bettors, including more claiming races for lower-level horses, and aggressive lobbying of trainers to get their horses out of the barn and into the entry box.
  — Corina Knoll, New York Times, 26 June 2019
• The state Department of Fair Employment and Housing challenged the firing, claiming race discrimination.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Nov. 2021

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