You put a sale sign on him.'' The sale price of each horse in a claiming race is determined by the track as part of the race conditions. Track racing secretary Doug Schoepf never tries to tell trainers what price they should enter their horses for. That's not up to the track. We try to put on the best racing. The trainers will enter their horses where they belong.
Trainers definitely do.
From the biggest barns on the backside to the small five horse outfits, everyone seems to have an extra stall. The reason is trainers want to claim. I have to look at it as my business. Neraks Eman stamped himself as a future star a year ago while winning all four of his starts. He's in pretty good shape,'' said Arlen Hiatt, who co-trains Neraks Eman along with his wife Kathleen.