Your Thanksgiving Day plans may be set by now, but what about plans for Thanksgiving weekend? Del Mar is nice at this time of year. Chicago should be crisp and clear (though perhaps a bit windy, I hear). 

A Pick & Pray weekend with plenty of long-priced winners to go around led to a large number of players enjoying multi-table success last week.

On a seemingly related note, the red hot Keith Fenton won grand prizes in three different tourneys since our last blog. However, multi-tabling had nothing to do with it. Fenton has simply been on a massive roll. 

Even though the Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge is barely in our rear-view mirror, it’s time to look forward—not backward—and focus on getting to some important upcoming events.

A total of $385,388 in cash was paid out last week at HorseTourneys as the 40th Breeders’ Cup served as the centerpiece of a wide array of Live-format and Pick & Pray games. 

The person who got the biggest slice of that $385,388 was John Farrar.

No matter how you like to attack the Breeders’ Cup—Live, Pick & Pray, one day at a time or one big two-day tourney—there’s a lucrative marquee game to suit your tastes this weekend during the 40th Breeders’ Cup on Friday and Saturday at Santa Anita Park.

Several players showed last week that their handicapping was on point as Breeders’ Cup weekend approached. Perhaps no one fit this description better than Ken Jordan. 

The Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge is just over a week away, and so we are ramping up qualifiers to the world’s most prestigious live-bankroll tournament this Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Late on Day 1 of The BIG One at Laurel Park, Brendan Fay could be forgiven if he was starting to think of the two-day, $200,100 all-cash contest as The BIG Bust. His first 11 “$2.00-to-win-and-place” picks had yielded just a single, measly $5.20 place payoff. 

Last week’s featured tourneys tended to be very competitive, hard-fought battles. We didn’t see much in the way of multi-table success or game-crushing cap horses.

Qualifiers for the $200,000 Gtd. The BIG One are drawing to a close with the all-cash event taking place on October 21-22 at Laurel Park. You can compete for the cash—(and soak up the many amenities of the contest), but only if you qualify…or buy-in directly for $4,500. Your final weekend chances to qualify for $500 take place on Friday, with the first of three straight two-seats-guaranteed qualifiers.