The Claiming Game

[OldDog]

Some play it so well. For example, a horse that I watch goes off in the 8th yesterday at Hawthorne. He doesn’t win, but what catches my eye is that the winner Yukan Do It Too was claimed, and that he went off at 7-1.

http://www1.drf.com/drfNCWeeklyHorse...20411&raceNo=8

I look up his profile
http://www.equibase.com/profiles/Res...368&registry=T

and I just have to wonder what it was the made him so attractive, and why, out of all the horses in that race, he was the one that was claimed. He's a 5YO gelding who finished 5th, 2nd and 5th in his last three races. He had the same owner/trainer since he began racing in 2010. What tipped off Midwest Thoroughbreds that it was time?