Eldon Stivers woke up on Saturday morning in a panic. 

After Friday’s Day 1 of the $319,113 New York New York Challenge, Stivers was in 13th place—$61.92 behind leader Tory Cameron. Stivers—a 62-year-old retired mechanic who resides in Nash, Tex., close to Texarkana—was excited. 

A fine first day followed up by a significantly better Day 2 proved the pathway to victory for Eldon Stivers in the second annual New York New York Challenge on June 5-6 at HorseTourneys. The Nash, Tex., resident earned $119,545 for the victory.

The second annual New York New York Challenge is now just four days away. On Sunday, Jayson “Radio City” Rockett ensured that he’ll be part of the $200,000 Guaranteed event that requires players to make full-card, Pick & Pray selections for the Friday and Saturday of the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival (to be held one final time this year at Saratoga).

Cash was king for Kenneth Arnerich over Memorial Day Weekend—or on Saturday, to be precise.

There are so many great tournaments on the annual calendar. In less than a month, one of the most popular will be held—the Monmouth Pick Your Prize Challenge. Of course, the granddaddy of them all is the NHC. And we at HorseTourneys are particularly proud of the upcoming, all-Pick & Pray New York New York Challenge here over Belmont Stakes weekend.

Stephen Thompson didn’t finish first in any featured tourneys last week. However, the Lebanon, Pa., funeral home owner and supervisor still managed to bring home seats to three important contests—and he did so on three different days.

It was another good weekend around here for NHC Hall of Famers. Two of them—Brett Wiener and 2016 NHC Tour champ Cheryl McIntyre—did a whole lot of winning here on Friday and Saturday.

NHC champions…NHC Hall of Famers…HorseTourneys “major” winners…you’ll find all of them on the leaderboards in any given week here—and they certainly had plenty of great moments here last week. The player who outdid them all, however, was Jose Giron.

In 2023, New Jersey attorney David Wolff enjoyed the biggest score of his life, winning $187,425 in that year’s Flo-Cal Faceoff. Last week, Wolff added to his career HorseTourneys earnings…twice.

It has been quite a run of late for Dave “Gambling Actuary” Nichols. In 2025, he won the HorseTourneys Tour and also the far-less-challenging NHC Tour. (I’m kidding about the far-less-challenging part.) Last week, the Pennsylvania resident was up to his old tricks.