How To Claim

Shanthi · February 8, 2004, 6:36pm

To claim, you must be logged in. Go to the Post Parade, and claiming will show up as a button for any races that have horses that you don’t own and can afford the claiming fee for.

Remember, you may only claim 1 horse per day. There is NO way to “take back” your claim…there IS a confirmation page, so I don’t want to hear any “I accidentally clicked the wrong thing and claimed this horse when I wanted to claim this other horse!” complaints from anyone.

You will be charged the claiming fee if you get the horse, so make sure you can afford it! If you have a negative balance you can’t enter races or breed horses or buy horses until you get out of debt, so I’d avoid it if at all possible.

There is a new policy for entering claiming races as well…just like the selling rule (where you must keep the horse for a minimum of 6 months or 3 uses), entering into a claiming race counts as putting your horse up for sale…so you will not be allowed to do this until/unless you are allowed to sell the horse normally. You may enter claiming races after you have run the horse twice, as the 3rd race can count as the claiming race itself.

Shanthi · September 7, 2005, 1:00am

Claiming buttons do not show up if:

You are not logged in
You have already submitted a claim for that day
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gmat28 · December 30, 2005, 1:03am

If an owner puts a horse into a claiming race and a claim is put in can the owner scratch the horse?I put a claim for race #6-12/31 and the horse is no longer there and the race has yet to be run.
Thanks.
Mat :?

Shanthi · December 30, 2005, 1:06am

Yes, the owner may scratch the horse for any reason, at any time. Your claim is deleted if/when the horse is scratched.

gmat28 · December 30, 2005, 2:14am

Thanks for the answer.I’m was not so interested in the horse as the knowledge.Being able to scratch out of a claiming race opens up more possibilities.
Thanks.
Mat

Shanya · August 24, 2007, 10:27am

Who ‘wins’ the claim? I’m aware that multile people will claim a horse. Who is chosen to own the horse etc, or is it random?

CricketHill · August 24, 2007, 1:39pm

complete random chance. Makes it fair for everyone. =)

Freedom · September 3, 2007, 8:06pm

Oh! I didn’t know that.

Zurg · January 5, 2008, 11:53pm

I noticed that FF runs right close to real life raceing. So when an owner( in Canada)puts a horse in claiming races thaey not only get the claim price they get the winnings(if any) of the horse running. I noticed here that I do not get the winnings. My noticed that today also and asked me about it. Is this a glitch or the way it happens in FF. I looked and have seen nothing about it. Just the money coming off for the claim. Or the previous owner getting the claim money. There is nothing about the winnings.Thanks!!

Mintano · January 6, 2008, 1:22am

I think in FF the old owner receives any prize money won.

Shanthi · January 6, 2008, 2:40am

The previous owner gets the winnings from the race, otherwise there would be no incentive to race in them.

Zurg · January 7, 2008, 5:12am

Thanks! My son said when he looked today the winnings were there! So everyone is happy and things are cleared up!

Canuck · January 11, 2009, 9:56pm

If your claim is successful …is it immediate after the race…or is there a bit of a wait…like a few days

Im not sure if my claim was succsessful on Jan 10.

Don’t want to do anything until I know for sure.

thanx

Shanthi · January 11, 2009, 10:06pm

If your claim is successful, it is processed when the post-race script runs. (Which is after all the day’s races are complete, unless the code has a meltdown.)

Canuck · January 11, 2009, 10:17pm

Thx for info

So if she’s not in my stable probably …claim was unsuccessful

Shanthi · January 11, 2009, 11:26pm

Yes, there is no notification for unsuccessful claims.