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OK, the feature is the seventh a 6 ½ furlong allowance/optional claimer for older horses.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2020

Friday’s feature was a little on the light side, an allowance/optional claimer for 3-year-old fillies going a mile on the dirt for a purse of $57,000.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2020

It’s a one mile allowance/optional claimer on the turf for 3-year-old fillies, which really means 2-year-olds who are three days into their new age.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2020

But before we get to the stakes, the fourth is a 6 ½ furlong allowance/optional claimer.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2019

On that date, Stagehand’s 100-pound impost was justified; he was only two years old, had never won or even run particularly well in any race, and he was about to begin 1938 as a claimer.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand