(Courtesy of Del Mar Thoroughbred Club)
Faron McCubbins of Mt. Washington, KY, turned his $5,000 starting bankroll into $64,535 to coast home in the $300,000 Del Mar Challenge. First Place was worth $120,000+ in prizes including a $10,000 entry in the Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge (BCBC) at Del Mar in November. Along with his $64,535 bankroll winnings, total prizes amounted to over $185,000. In addition, a win for McCubbins in the BCBC will be worth a $1 million bonus.
Congratulations to Gary West, winner of the 2017 Gold Coast Summer Classic. Here is how the Top 20 finished:
We’re doing last weekend one better at HorseTourneys and HorsePlayers—20 featured tourneys are on the weekend docket, up from 19 a week ago. One of our very best games this weekend costs just $50 to play. And another is absolutely free!
For the first time ever, tournament players will be able to compete for a $10,000 seat to the prestigious Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge (BCBC) for an entry fee of just $50.
If the name Kirk Tesar is unfamiliar to most tournament players, it is with good reason.
“Somehow I just wasn’t aware until last year—around Derby or Preakness time—that tournaments even existed,” said the 34-year-old manufacturing plant production manager from Plymouth, Indiana.
On opening weekend of both the Saratoga and Del Mar meetings, our marquee tourney was Saturday’s $75,000 Guaranteed event. The $30,000 first-place finisher was Kirk Tesar of Plymouth, Indiana. And–perhaps in true Hoosier fashion–his victory was workmanlike rather than showy.
The weekend that so many look forward to all year—opening weekend at Saratoga and Del Mar—is here and HorseTourneys is marking the occasion with 19 featured tourneys, including a special 13-race, $75,000 Guaranteed tourney on Saturday that pays $30,000 to its skillful winner.
It’s an exciting time in horse racing this week with both Del Mar (Wednesday) and Saratoga (Friday) kicking off their much-anticipated 2017 meetings. And it’s an equally exciting time this week here at HorseTourneys. There’s so much that’s new or special or both that we thought a quick overview would be in order.
It was predominantly a Pick & Pray weekend, so it wasn’t shocking that we saw four multiple winners. However, three came on Saturday’s six-featured-games slate and just one on Sunday’s nine-tourney schedule.
See below for the full order of finish from the Friday tournament hosted by Surfside on July 14.
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