It has to be a big weekend when we can put together a 12-race featured schedule consisting entirely of stakes races, and that’s the case this Saturday when our main events will be geared around four stakes each from Aqueduct, Keeneland and Santa Anita—including the Wood Memorial, Toyota Blue Grass Stakes and Santa Anita Derby. And the odd thing is that, at least at HorseTourneys and HorsePlayers, Sunday may be an even bigger day than Saturday.
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The tournament belonged to Pete Puhich, whose two entries were third and seventh after Day 1, and first and second after Days 2 and 3.
In one of the great big-money handicapping tournament performances of all time, 59-year-old Pete Puhich of Renton, Wash., finished first and second with his two entries to win a total of $373,091.40 in the 2017 Horse Player World Series.
We found him!
Pete Puhich is in the ballroom today as he attempts to keep his two Horse Player World Series entries in the top two positions.
It was hard to imagine Peter Puhich improving on his Day 1 performance when his two entries finished Thursday in 3rd and 7th places. But that’s just what the Renton, Wash., resident did on Friday—registering the second highest Day 2 total on one of his entries, and doing well enough on his other to finish the day occupying the first and second positions in the overall standings.
On a day when longshots were in short supply, HorseTourneys qualifier Brett Wiener didn’t need them. The 50-year-old business owner from Clearwater, Fla., strung together a series of winning mid-priced horses to finish atop the heap of 571 entries after Day One of the three-day Horse Player World Series (HPWS) at The Orleans in Las Vegas.
When you win or purchase a seat to a live tournament, you literally do secure yourself a seat—or a bench or a stool, as the case may be. The question then becomes, “Where should that seat be located?”
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Congratulations to all of the winners!
It seemed like tourneys went to one extreme or the other this weekend. One day, prices were hard to come by; the next day, bombs were dropping all around. Two important races from a Kentucky Derby standpoint were Saturday’s Spiral Stakes from Turfway and Sunday’s Sunland Derby. They proved to be important from a HorseTourneys standpoint as well.
March is not going out like a lamb at HorseTourneys.
For the second consecutive weekend, we’ll offer an NHC doubleheader—one qualifier on Saturday, one on Sunday—along with valuable qualifiers to The BIG One, the Keeneland Grade One Gamble and Spring Challenge, Monmouth, Wynn, Surfside and the Horse Player World Series (your last chance to get to The Orleans!).
But this weekend we are mixing in a $50,000 Guaranteed All-Optional cash game, a Kentucky Derby Betting Championship qualifier and a First Chance for you to qualify for the Treasure Island Wager to Win tournaments on May 19-20 (Preakness weekend). For the most part, we will be Picking & Praying, but there are some live-format events as well.
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