With the Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge in the books, the NHC takes over the sole spotlight at HorsePlayers. Meanwhile, there continue to be many different attention-grabbing featured events here at HorseTourneys.

The latest addition to the regular HorseTourneys lineup will premiere this Saturday. It’s a $25-buy-in, $2,000-Guaranteed, Low-Cap tourney, in which the maximum payouts for every mythical $2.00 win and place selection will be $26.00 (12-1) to win and $14.00 (6-1) to place.

The Ks were Special last week.

The Breeders’ Cup was still a day away, but while many of us were understandably preoccupied with handicapping Keeneland, Michael “Copa” Kavana didn’t ignore the matters at hand—at Mahoning Valley, Delaware and Horseshoe Indy.

For a horseplayer, it doesn’t get much better than Breeders’ Cup Weekend. It was true in 1984, and it’s true now. For a tournament player, the anticipation is, I would argue, even more intense. Contests are fun even if you’re focusing on cheap claiming races, but when you can play against great players on the greatest races, it sort of brings out the best in all of us—and reminds us why we grew to love this sometimes frustrating avocation in the first place. 

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• Credit or Debit cards will no longer be an option to make deposits directly on HorseTourneys using PayPal
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Since we are running daily Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenges currently, we have seven days to recap. So we will proceed—more or less—in chronological order to try and provide one small measure of clarity in an otherwise hectic week.

In an effort to reduce the home page listing size and load of HorseTourneys, effective immediately, please note that both WINNER TAKE ALL and HEAD-TO-HEAD events for some tracks will no longer appear on the main, home page listing.

These tournaments may be accessed by using the filters for both WINNER TAKE ALL and HEAD-TO-HEAD, found under the TYPE header in the filter section.

So for example, if you desire a $100 WINNER TAKE ALL event for HAWTHORNE, you would choose the WINNER TAKE ALL from the TYPE filter options. If you’d like to quickly find HAWTHORNE, also select the HAW option from the TRACKS list.

The same applies for HEAD-TO-HEAD. You may choose the HEAD-TO-HEAD option from the TYPE filter and find what track you’re looking for. Or, add the TRACK from the TRACK filter to narrow it more.

The tracks running at this current time that are affected by this change are as follows:

DELAWARE PARK
HORSESHOE INDIANAPOLIS
LAUREL
MAHONING VALLEY
HAWTHORNE
GOLDEN GATE
EARLY OR LATE BEL/KEE/SA

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The horses for the 2022 Breeders’ Cup were pre-entered yesterday, but the field for the 2022 Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge is still taking shape. That shape will change further this weekend—the final weekend of BCBC qualifying—with eight guaranteed, play-ins to the world’s most prestigious live-bankroll contest on tap.

Last week was a “Pick & Pray week” around here, so double-ups were perhaps to be expected among hot multi-tablers. However, a couple of players rode their heaters from one day straight into the next.

If you didn’t know that the Breeders’ Cup is right around the corner, you’d know it from the extra heavy helping of Breeders’ Cup qualifiers this weekend. We’ll have six, rather than the usual three. And even when the weekend ends, the BCBC play-ins will continue because there’s one set up for Monday as well.