Courtesy of Santa Anita Park, here are the daily top 10 leaderboards from each day of last weekend’s three-day Santa Anita Autumn Handicapping Challenge. Congratulations to daily winners Eduardo Carbajal (Friday), Christian Hellmers (Saturday) and Robert Talstra (Sunday).
Howard Welsh of Basking Ridge, N.J. became the second-ever winner of a HorseTourneys $100,000 contest, when he picked five winners and two runners up from 15 races to amass $160.60 and secure Saturday’s $40,000 top prize.
You know it’s a big weekend when Keeneland opens the doors to its Fall meet and the Breeders’ Cup preps start flying at you fast and furious. Saturday is also one of the biggest days ever at HorseTourneys as we host just our second ever $100,000 Guaranteed tourney.
If you’re looking to qualify online this month for next February’s National Horseplayers Championship (NHC) at Treasure Island in Las Vegas, look no further than HorseTourneys.com.
Last Friday’s $75 NHC Qualifier at HorsePlayers was very well attended. Despite a somewhat imposing winning ratio of 1 in 143, the tourney attracted 314 entries.
This is one of those rare weekends in which Saturday ends one month and Sunday begins another. Wait…actually, it’s not all that rare—it happens once every seven months on average. But if you like horse racing, and if the months in question are September and October, then you know it’s an important weekend that’s chock full of important Breeders’ Cup prep races.
A daring, all-in bet very early in the day propelled Eric Moomey to a lead he maintained throughout the day here on Day 1 of The BIG One at Laurel Park. In Laurel, Md.
Much of the HorseTourneys crew will hit the road this weekend to work The BIG One at Laurel Park. Thanks to a couple of $7,000 buy-in entries the field stands at 54 with only three buy-in seats remaining. As exciting as this competition will be with $100,000 in cash, eight BCBC seats and 10 NHC seats on the line, we’ve got plenty going on right here to keep those not in Maryland quite busy.
As the classic George Carlin joke goes, “Have you ever noticed that anyone on the highway driving slower than you is an idiot? And anyone driving faster than you is a MANIAC?”
I was reminded of this recently while reading certain responses to some of my recent blogs.
It was already a pretty good September for Dan Shugar. The Los Angeles business owner had won $12,500 on Saturday, September 9 when finishing first in that day’s $25,000 Guaranteed Pick & Pray.
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