As we get closer to the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, the featured-tourney pace remains brisk at HorseTourneys and HorsePlayers with 22 marquee games this Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

This blog is sent out annually as a reminder of some tweaks we here at HorseTourneys employ to try and mitigate the effects of winter weather on scheduling.  For beginners and veteran tourney players alike, it’s always a good idea for a quick refresher:

As we roll into the winter months, it’s a good idea that we explain our approach to scheduling, which we tweak this time of year.  We’ve employed this approach every year, and it just bears a quick reminder every November or so as chilly temperatures descend across the land.

Some days, you need to hunt down that one longshot hiding out there in order to succeed. Other days call for stringing together a bunch of shorter-priced winners. We saw examples of both last week at HorseTourneys—and, perhaps more surprisingly, we saw players who were able to prosper by shifting gears from one day to the next.

Two weeks ago, Ezra Garrett won $30,000 by breaking the $8 Pick 6 Jackpot ice that had remained frozen for 19 months. This weekend, we begin a new Jackpot game, a $15 Pick 4 tourney, that we hope will not be quite as hard to hit. That one begins on Saturday. On Sunday, you can become the very first person to qualify for the 2021 Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge.

One of the reasons I think this year’s Breeders’ Cup will stay with me a little longer than most is because of the success that a couple of “Also Eligibles” had. During an event that sometimes comes across as one with room for only the most fashionably bred horses, owners and even spectators, Also Eligibles just seem so much more…relatable.

If you were a horse trainer, it was a good weekend to be Brad Cox. If you were a HorseTourneys player, it was a good weekend to be Michael Somich…or Steve Abelman…or Matthew Bickey.

We entered Breeders’ Cup week advertising/promoting/bragging that we’d be awarding $200,000 in Guaranteed prize money across our featured tourneys. Thanks to the enthusiasm of our players, the total wound up being much more—$305,575.

It’s the best gambling weekend of the year for horseplayers, and HorseTourneys is ready to supercharge it further with 22 featured events that include $213,000 in guaranteed cash and a slew of seats at upcoming contests. The much-anticipated weekend action begins on Friday.

After almost 20 months, it finally happened—a winner in the $8 Pick 6 Jackpot Tourney!

Since March 3rd, 2019 (!), HorseTourneys players had tried and failed to go 6-for-6. Then came Sunday…and Ezra Garrett.

It’s the calm before the (Breeders’ Cup) storm…except that things won’t be very calm. We have six featured tourneys on Friday, seven on Saturday and another 13 on Sunday. A half dozen of those are BCBC qualifiers.

There were lots of featured tourneys last week—lots of Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge qualifiers, especially (7)—and lots of winners. The excitement got under way on Wednesday.