New Year’s Day is not known as a particularly religious holiday (even if January 1 actually is a “holy day of obligation” in the Catholic Church). Be that as it may, you can be assured that there will be a whole lot of praying going on this weekend—a lot of picking and praying, to be more precise. That’s because HorseTourneys and HorsePlayers will host a combined 18 featured tourneys during the Friday-Monday, four-day New Year’s holiday weekend, and 15 of those will be of the Pick & Pray variety.

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It was a curtailed weekend of contest action by the calendar. But not really in terms of the number of featured tourneys. Heck, even our single-track Gulfstream Pool-style tourney on Sunday wound up paying out more than $10,000. So despite the Christmas holiday, there’s still a lot to catch up on.

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With Christmas Eve falling on Sunday and Christmas Day on Monday, that means a compressed racing schedule. But not a subpar featured schedule at HorseTourneys and HorsePlayers. Essentially, what we might have lost on Sunday, we are plowing into Friday and Saturday. The net result: 13 featured tourneys…and—in case your holiday shopping is complete—a nice assortment of Gulfstream-only tourneys on Sunday since Gulfstream is open for business that day.

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For the second straight weekend, no one won more than one top prize in our featured tourneys (although one player came close). And Sunday’s action reminded us once again of both the formidable power of a well-chosen bomb…and the ways to overcome adversity when the bomb drops and you don’t have it.

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Christmas falls on a Monday this year. Which means that Christmas Eve falls on a Sunday. And we’re not operating any contests on Christmas Eve (or Day). So for committed weekend warriors, this coming Friday, Saturday and Sunday represents a nice chance to get a full, three-day weekend of competitions in ahead of Santa’s visit down your chimney.

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From a macro sense, there were two happy contest developments that took place over the weekend. 1) We got all of our Saturday featured tourneys in. Late Friday night and early Saturday morning, that seemed far from a certainty; and 2) Of the 13 featured weekend tourneys that took place, there were 21 first-prize winners. Not that there’s anyting wrong with someone ripping three or four victories off during a weekend (and, in fact, that can make a blogger’s job a little easier), but it’s always nice to see lots of happy winners as the victories get spread around.

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As the 2017 calendar marches forward, HorseTourneys marches on with another robust weekend offering significant cash and a host of desirable live-tournament seats, including seven to next February’s NHC.

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Of the 128 entries that left the starting gate for last Saturday’s $78,729 cash game at HorseTourneys, Tanya Taylor, in hindsight, had to be among the least likely winners—at least as of the start of the day.

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Capped off by Krysto Skye’s 13-1 victory in the next-to-last contest race, the 7th at Los Alamitos, Tanya Taylor of Little Rock, Arkansas, amassed a total of $119.80 and topped a field of 128 to capture the $35,428 top prize in Saturday’s $70,000-$100,000 tourney.

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