[For The Lead]

Thanks to Bill V for putting up this horse's PP's and Tom, I have to agree with you. When I made my above post, I had only looked at the conditions and did not look at any of the horses in the race, so I'm glad Bill V put this horse up for me.

Let me digress for a moment.
Conditions are more complex today than in years past. I’m sure you would hear different points of view on this topic, but in my opinion this is due to there being more race tracks and fewer horses than there used to be. This creates a problem for racing secretaries all over the country. As part of the racing secretary’s job, they are faced with the dilemma of filling races. As handicapper’s, we all recognize this problem as “short fields”. In order to accomplish this task, the racing secretary has to be familiar with the horses stabled on the grounds at their track, since this is the base they have to work with. Naturally, there will be horses that ship in from nearby tracks, but the horses on the grounds are the primary support for the races at any particular track. In order to fill races, a racing secretary has to necessarily become “creative”. So where the conditions of one race may be straight forward, such as $5,000 claiming race for three year olds and up which have never won two races, another condition may be made up of several “parts” in an effort to allow more horses to enter the race. Add to this, the fact that a trainer may come to the racing secretary complaining that he has a horse or horses in his care that don’t have races to run in because the racing secretary is not writing a condition that allows for the trainer to enter this horse or horses. This need for the trainer becomes a situation where the racing secretary needs to become creative.

Ok, back to the condition in question.
This is a good example. When I first read the condition, without looking at the horses in the race, I thought perhaps there were too many "or's" in the condition. As it turns out, it appears the condition is exactly what it says it is.
1 - three year olds and up which have never won three races
2 - three year olds (Period. no restriction on the number of wins)
3 - (any age) which have not won a race since May 28, 2012

This allows the posted horse to be eligible. It is a "three year old", so the number of wins OR when the wins occurred doesn't matter.

I hope we are all clear and sorry for any confusion I created.
It's just a lesson on making sure you read the condition AND look at the horses in the race to see how they "fit".