This Thursday, Canterbury Park (and Xpressbet) host the Canterbury Big 10 BCBC contest. On Saturday and Sunday, we here at HorseTourneys offer The BIG One. There are at least two common denominators in play here.

It’s a “Big” Weekend coming up—in more ways than one.

During an extended holiday week, we hosted 30 featured tourneys and awarded 35 grand prizes across those 30 events. Nevertheless, not a single person garnered top honors more than once. The 35 prizes went to 35 different people.

On the racetrack, Labor Day weekend includes Pacific Classic Day at Del Mar, closing weekend at Saratoga and opening weekend at Kentucky Downs. Those three things, by themselves, should make for a pretty terrific few days of racing action. Here at HorseTourneys (and HorsePlayers too), we’ll try to make things just that much more exciting with a vast assortment of games on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, plus one of our most robust Labor Day slates ever. 

Due to some vacation time last week, the normal “Weekly Recap” will be a “Weekend Recap” this week. To last week’s Wednesday and Thursday featured-tourney winners, we apologize for missing your exploits…but we also say, “Congratulations!”

All the great racing during the month of August seems to bring out the best in some players. One enjoying incredible success of late is Gary Brous.

Exotics specialists will again have their day…or weekend…here at HorseTourneys on  December 3-4. Those are the dates of the second annual Exacta Extravaganza. A $50,000 Guaranteed event, the “EE” requires contestants to make a preset number of three-horse exacta box picks from among 25 or 30 available contest races each day. Likely contest tracks those days include Aqueduct, Gulfstream and Del Mar. Our first qualifier to the Extravaganza is offered this Saturday.

Even though most of last week’s featured tourneys were Pick & Prays, we didn’t see very much domination by any one player. Part of that was because there really weren’t any “Have it or die” bombs”…and also…the competition was just really tough.

That’s not to say that there weren’t some individual stars during the week.

If you’re an action junkie, this is your weekend at HorseTourneys and HorsePlayers. This Friday, Saturday and Sunday, we offer a record (we think!) 31 featured events.

Long ago, Tim Hughes had the weekend of August 6-7 circled on his calendar. He had plans for those days—big plans. It’s just that none of those plans had anything to do with horse racing.

Combining a 26th-place performance on Saturday and a 5th-best Sunday score added up to a windfall of $222,252 for Tim Hughes of Point Pleasant, New Jersey, in the 4th annual Spa & Surf Showdown here at HorseTourneys.