It’s not a holiday weekend but it feels like one since Saturday is Travers Day. To properly fete our own little “Horseplayer Holiday”, we’re offering a not-at-all-little cash game to supercharge Saturday.
Steven Meier had been vewy, vewy quiet during the first half of Friday’s 10-race, $7,500 Guaranteed Pick & Pray. After five races, he had fired almost all blanks and had collected just $2.10. There was big game to be had out there, though, with the pot having swelled to $9,080 by the tourney’s start time. Meier obviously needed to hunt down some prices.
Seventeen featured tourneys are slated this weekend. Twelve of them are Pick & Prays. So if that is your preferred format, then this is your kind of weekend. The action gets started on Friday.
It was the weekend after the Spa & Surf Showdown…but any chance of a letdown in excitement was vanquished by some particularly thrilling finishes as well as some impressive feats of handicapping strength and consistency.
With the first Spa & Surf Showdown now in the books, it’s time to get back to normal here at HorseTourneys. Though an August weekend never exactly qualifies as “normal.” We have 18 featured events during the upcoming Friday-Saturday-Sunday period. They offer a plethora of brick-and-mortar contest seats plus a good amount of cash. The fun begins on Friday.
“This is the most I’ve ever won.”
Those words can carry vastly different meanings depending on who is speaking them. When they’re uttered by famed tournament player Paul Shurman, it is a significant statement, indeed.
He’s considered one of the greatest $2 win/place tournament players ever, so perhaps it’s appropriate that NHC Hall of Famer Paul Shurman was the first-ever winner of the Spa & Surf Showdown. The 64-year-old Dix Hills, N.Y., attorney earned $109,032 out of a total purse of $272,000.
After months of qualifying, the big days are now upon us. It’s time for the first annual Spa & Surf Showdown.
We normally proceed in chronological order with our weekly recaps, but to start anywhere other than Sunday would be an injustice to George Chute.
The final weekend of July brings with it a predominantly live-format weekend containing 19 featured tourneys. Among the qualifiers is a new one…to the August 24 Monmouth Super NHC/BCBC Qualifier. The multi-track-tourney fun starts on Friday.
