
It’s a HorseTourneys first—a Weekly Recap blog that actually covers a full week!

With a pot that has already swelled to $244,260, the August 15-16 Spa & Surf Showdown will be a prime focus as we enter the next-to-last weekend of qualifying for the all-cash, online event. In addition to daily, multi-track qualifiers for the Showdown, we’ll also be offering single-track, direct qualifiers on the racing programs at Saratoga (where it’s Whitney weekend) and Del Mar all weekend long.

Starting today, single-track direct qualifiers for the August 15-16 Spa & Surf Showdown will be offered each racing day at Saratoga and Del Mar.

Make it eight featured-tourney triumphs during the month of July for Michael Caposio.

Del Mar is back this weekend—and so are our qualifiers to the Monmouth Pick Your Prize Challenge. We hope Del Mar stays with us now right through Labor Day, but we know Pick Your Prize qualifiers will only be with us for one more day.

It was a chalkier week than most—especially on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. And yet a lot of familiar names were on last week’s roster of winners, demonstrating the versatility and adaptability of their games. Not only that, but the names of several (Jim Lisowsky, Mike Yurczyk and Jack Schwartz, to name three) appeared at the top on more than one day. The featured-tourney fun got started on Wednesday.

For much of 2020, it seems that the “won’ts” have outnumbered the “wills”—as in we won’t have fans at Saratoga this year…and we won’t have racing at Del Mar this weekend. However, racing fans have been blessed with more “wills” than have fans of almost any other sport, and there’s plenty to look forward to this weekend at HorseTourneys and HorsePlayers as we present 26 featured events, including six on Saturday and Sunday that will be run in All Optional Live format. And did we mention that Saturday is Haskell Day at Monmouth?

Dylan Donnelly didn’t win anything of note over Fourth of July weekend—and you know that wasn’t going to sit well with him.

It’s a pretty terrific weekend on the racing calendar as the lone weekend of the Keeneland Summer Meet and opening weekend at Del Mar. We have 25 featured events to help do it all up in style. Since many of our players will be busy with the Keeneland Summer Challenge on Saturday over at Xpressbet, we’re directing a lot of extra emphasis to our Sunday schedule.

Multiple featured-tourney victories in a single week is always impressive. Five such victories in a single weekend is even more impressive. Five such winners split up over two different days…now that’s someone on a serious roll.