Shanthi,
Has there been a change to the code that handles this recently? I successfully claimed a horse today from a Claiming race in Australia. When I look at the Horse Info page, it still shows the horse’s location as Australia.
However, I’m pretty sure that I’ve successfully claimed horses in the past and when I looked at their Horse Info page later, it had their location as my Stable.
Is my memory faulty or was a code change applied recently or is this a new bug?
Just curious.
All the horses I have claimed (that I have noticed) stayed at the track they last raced. I could be wrong though. 
Starfish:
It did that for a claim of mine a long time ago I could swear, but for the better part of a year now, it’s always been the track they were located at.
I’ve claimed a fair few horses (especially lately) and they’ve all stayed at the track the race was at. I don’t think it is a reasonable expectation for the shipping fee to be included especially if you claim a horse for $5,000 located in Australia and your stable is in the USA. 
The only time a horse I have claimed has been shipped home to my stable is if I make her a broodmare… that is the only time horses magically return to your home stable…
As Dawn said, the only way horses poof someplace is if you retire them. There may have been a bug in the code before that insta-shipped horses, but it was certainly not intentional.
No problem. I’ll give Polly’s Appeal a couple of races down under then maybe bring her State-side via England.
Just a quick Q. How do FF horses deal with NE? I see they’re poofed from track to track, but they never poof back to a barn. So, should I claim an FF horse, where can I expect their NE to be? Rock bottom, since they’re never sent “home”?
They’re immune. NE only drops for non-FF owned horses. Seemed a bit unfair to have the horses owned by a computer script to be miserable about it.
Excellent. Good to know!