It wound up being another Friday without featured tourneys. Last week it was Laurel that unexpectedly shut down on Friday morning. This past Friday, Santa Anita had to take an involuntary “pause” just 40 minutes prior to its first race. Featured tourneys continued, though, on Saturday and Sunday—and there were even a few (for the first time) on a Wednesday.
Six guaranteed NHC seats, three Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge entries and at least $53,500 in cash are just some of the prizes guaranteed to be awarded this weekend across five featured tourneys on Friday, another five on Saturday and 10 on Sunday. We’ll start at the beginning…with Friday.
In recent weeks, some players have been hogging tourney victories as if they were rolls of toilet paper. (I’m looking at you, Stephen Thompson.) That was not the case last weekend as 24 grand prizes (across 15 featured events) went to 24 different people. Unfortunately, none of that winning took place on Friday.
These are trying times with the Coronavirus pandemic forcing so many of us to work at home and just plain stay at home. Happily, due to its very nature, horse racing has (in most cases) been able to go on—which allows people like us to play at home. We’ll try and help make that part of it more fun for you with 20 featured weekend events that get started on Friday.
It seems like only a matter of time before the FBI starts wiretapping Stephen Thompson.
You don’t want to be around Stephen Thompson when he’s working and—these days—you don’t want to be around him when he’s playing either.
Though the ink is barely dry on the results for the $225,000 Flo-Cal Faceoff that saw Thomas Blosser of Cornville, Arizona win over $88,000, there’s no time like the present to begin qualifiers for the next high-stakes cash game on the schedule, the $150,000 Spa & Surf Showdown
It had already been a fun and profitable 2021 for Thomas Blosser. On February 6, he won $31,850 plus a 2021 NHC seat for coming in first in the Bally’s First Chance/Last Chance tournament. The following week, he finished third in a $75 NHC qualifier at HorsePlayer. So he entered the weekend of February 29-March 1 leading the 2020 NHC Tour standings. He had given no serious thought, however, to playing in the inaugural Flo-Cal Faceoff.
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