Lacy has Quadruple-Win Saturday, Massis Good at Grade One Gambling (Weekend Recap April 15-16)

Sunday belonged to the Easter Bunny but Saturday belonged to Darryl Lacy.

Taking an aggressive, multi-table approach even though it was a live-format weekend, Lacy signed up for two entries in each of six different featured tourneys—and entered the same two sets of picks in all six contests. One of his entries accumulated only about $30…no good. But his other garnered a very solid $84.20.

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NHC, BCBC, BIG One, Del Mar Qualifiers—Plus Last Chance for Keeneland Contests—Highlight Weekend Action

The big HorseTourneys news of the week is that the winner of this year’s The BIG One will now be eligible for a $500,000 bonus should he or she win the NHC. It’s the second significant bonus announced this year by HorseTourneys. The other was a $10,000 site credit bonus should any HorseTourneys qualifier go on to win the Del Mar Handicapping Challenge. And—sure enough—we have direct qualifiers coming up on Sunday for both The BIG One and the Del Mar Handicapping Challenge.

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All-Stakes Saturday Schedule Plus NHC, BCBC, KDBC, BIG One Qualifiers and $25K event Just a Few of This Weekend’s Highlights

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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Puhich in Catbird Seat, Holds Top 2 Places Entering Final Day of HPWS

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.

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Sarah Wiener Does it Again; Moomey Wins Two More; “The Bear” Breaks the Ice (Weekend Recap March 24-26)

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.

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