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Thistledown presents an eight-race card today featuring a competitive mix of claiming races, starter optional claiming events, and maiden special weight contests. The card showcases purses ranging from $19,400 to $38,400, with all races contested on the dirt surface. Racing begins at approximately 12:50 PM ET and continues through the evening hours, offering handicappers diverse wagering opportunities across multiple race types and distances from six furlongs to one mile.

In thoroughbred horse racing, "Broke In Tangle" is a term used to describe what happens at the start of a race when a horse gets away awkwardly from the starting gate.

Used at the start when the horse has no other excuse other than the fact that he broke a bit behind the rest of the field. He was not bumped, steadied, bobbled or unprepared for the start, just came away from the gate a bit tardy.

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