New Qualifier to Xpressbet Summit of Speed Challenge Helps Build Out an Imposing Array of 31 Featured Events During the Final Weekend of June

With each passing week, it seems a new qualifier joins our featured-tourney ranks. Last week, it was Lone Star, Club Hawthorne and Monmouth (Haskell). This week, it’s the Xpressbet Summit of Speed Challenge. You will have two opportunities this weekend to earn $1,500 entries to the July 3rd contest that can be played onsite at Gulfstream or online at Xpressbet.

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Special “Pick Your Year” NHC Qualifier on Sunday Plus All Optional Live Tourneys and First Chances to Lone Star, Monmouth and Club Hawthorne Top the Friday, Saturday and Sunday Featured Lineup

After a fairly lengthy hiatus, we will once again be operating several of our more popular featured tourneys on Saturday and Sunday in All Optional Live format. For those unfamiliar with that game-play mode, it means you make 10 plays from among 25 eligible contest races. The other 15 you can just simply ignore. Or perhaps ignore—but root wildly for chalk to come in!

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Robert Schintzius Sr. Sweeps the Big Bucks Tourneys; David May, Brett Wiener and James Lisowsky Each Succeed on Back-to-Back Days; John Kaiser on a Roll (Weekly Recap, June 9-13)

Victory has been no stranger to Robert Schintzius Sr. The Western New York resident earned a $3,000 Canterbury entry two weeks ago, picked up a $2,500 Spa & Surf Showdown seat last week, and this past week he decided to focus himself on events offering more immediate gratification.

When the weekend was over, Schintzius had to feel…gratified.

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Frank Polk Captures Belmont Stakes Day $48,000 Tourney; Daniel Kovalesky Wins on Back-to-Back Days; Plethora of Mid-Range Horses Make for a Wide Open Sunday (Weekly Recap, June 2-6)

For the most part, last week’s featured tourneys were exciting free-for-alls with several horses in the 10-1 range connecting, and almost no cap horses doing so. The one exception came on the first day of the featured-tourney week, Wednesday.

When is the last time you bet a horse that clipped heels during the race and still managed to win? When is the last time you played a horse that clipped heels and went on, nonetheless, to win by 5 lengths? When’s the last time you picked a horse that did all that…at odds of 66-1?

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Special $45,000 Guaranteed Cash Tourney and New Colonial Downs Qualifier Among the Highlights of Belmont Stakes Weekend

Even when there’s not a Triple Crown on the line, Belmont Stakes weekend has—over the last few years—turned into one of the very best betting weekends this side of the Breeders’ Cup. To try and keep pace, we’re ramping up this Saturday’s offerings to include both a $45,000 Guaranteed live-format game and a $15,000 Guaranteed Pick & Pray.

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Seth Morris and Evan Trommer Each Pull Off Three Baggers; Mark Wilgard Launches All-Out Assault on the NHC; The Engelhard Brothers Strut Their Stuff (Weekly Recap, May 19-23)

Despite the fact that the bulk of the weekend featured tourneys were conducted in Live format (which some people think is a bit more chaotic), there were plenty of multiple winners on display. 

The week’s trend line showed itself right from the outset.

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