Tracking all of the featured tourneys during Labor Day week was pretty…labor intensive…with 29 such events taking place from Wednesday through Monday. For many of our players, however, handicapping was a labor of love last week—and a rewarding one at that.
It’s Labor Day weekend coming up—which means it’s your last chance to play Saratoga and Del Mar for a while. And on Monday, you can become the first to qualify for the January 9-10 Flo-Cal Faceoff—a $150,000 Guaranteed event focusing solely on full-card racing from Gulfstream and Santa Anita. As announced just this week, the Faceoff, whose inaugural edition (worth $225,000) was won by Thomas Blosser of Cornville, Arizona, will serve as the first leg of the 2021 Tourney Triple series which offers a $2 million bonus should someone sweep all three legs, a $1 million bonus for winning two out of three and valuable tournament seats to the top three overall performers during the three competitions.
The summer is nearing an end but the winning continues at HorseTourneys and HorsePlayers. Last week’s action contained a nice mix of new qualifiers and good, old-fashioned cash, NHC seats and BCBC entries. The featured-tourney fun began on Wednesday.
Could we already be nearing the end of summer? According to the calendar (which seems like a less believable companion this year), the answer is “Yes”. On what will be the final weekend of August, we have 19 featured events—including a last chance, a first chance and lots of fun stuff in between.
They say money goes to money. They also say when you’re hot, you’re hot. Whoever “they” is, they’re right because both of those things apply to Scott Fiedler.
The contest world and the racing media, alike, are still buzzing over the $644,000 Spa & Surf Showdown that saw Scott Fiedler win $248,000. It’s time to turn the page, though, because another weekend of featured-tourney action is already upon us.
It was the largest purse in the history of online horse racing handicapping contests, and it came around at a good time for Scott Fiedler of Babylon, N.Y.
It’s finally upon us—the 2020 Spa & Surf Showdown. At press time, the purse had reached $369,930—and with five qualifiers on Thursday, a bunch more on Friday and $2,000 buy-ins still open, a total pot of $400,000 certainly seems within reach.
Christy Moore had two important tasks last Saturday — play the Xpressbet Travers Online Challenge with the entry that she won here at HorseTourneys in a $175 qualifier…and do that while keeping an eye on her 9- and 11-year-old sons.
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