Friday may have been our nation’s 249th birthday, but for 2018 The BIG One champion Joe Pettit, Saturday was truly the day to celebrate.

One players who will be sorry to see the month of June come to an end tomorrow is Sean O’Malley. Two weeks ago, he treated HorseTourneys like his own, private “Pick Your Prize” tournament, capturing the richest cash game of the week, while also securing rich seats to the BCBC, NHC, Del Mar Summer Challenge and Kentucky Downs King of the Turf Challenge.

Last Friday, he was back for more.

We’re all familiar with “Lather, Rinse, Repeat”. On Saturday, Sean O’Malley took it several steps further…as in “Lather, Rinse, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat”.

Featured tourneys are like Lay’s Potato Chips for Evan Trommer. When he partakes, he tends not to enjoy just one.

One could not have faulted Anthony Mattera if, at some point, he had decided to never play in a HorseTourneys major event again. It’s not that the 40-year-old legal consultant in Palm City, Fla., did poorly in these big-money competitions. Quite the opposite. It’s just that they had a way of dealing Mattera some setbacks that would have challenged the resolve of even the most determined horseplayer.

The final day of May was a very good one for Steven Meier. Using mostly the same set of picks, he racked up three rewarding victories.

Memorial Day weekend wasn’t quite as…memorable…for Scott Fiedler as the August weekend in 2020 when he won $248,000 for capturing the 2nd annual Spa & Surf Showdown. But it was still a weekend to savor for the Long Island sports camp operator.

For most handicappers and racing fans, last week’s highlight was Preakness Day on Saturday. For Max Schnepf, it was the day after.

David Barnier was on a roll on Friday—and it continued right on into Saturday.

From 10 Friday contest races, Barnier landed on 5 winners and 2 runners up. All five of his winners paid double digits in the win hole. Three of the five paid $20.00 or more, including Santa Barbarian ($29.80, $12.00) in the opener at (appropriately enough) Santa Anita.

Michael Caposio is a busy guy—but he has a “system”.

The Temecula, Calif., car dealer likes to multi-table his selections when he plays, but even when our featured tourneys are hosted in Live-format—as last Sunday’s were—he enters all his picks at the beginning of the day and does not change them. He approaches the games like they are Pick & Prays.