Million Week gets started Thursday, August 12…well, the racing portion does, anyway. (With morning works and the draw, it’s been Million Week all along.)

Let’s jump into the 2nd race on Thursday, an allowance optional claimer on polytrack. We discuss one thing you always need to keep in mind when handicapping allowance-optional races, and then make sense of the field!

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