(Courtesy of Keeneland)
La Coronel loves Keeneland….John Oxley’s super filly improved her record to 3-3 in graded stakes at Keeneland by winning the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (G1) today.
And Nick Tammaro, noted handicapper from Houston, Texas, loves La Coronel. So much so that he hit a $50 exacta in the QEII and a $50 double keying her with 10th race winner Bee Jersey as he compiled an impressive $7,480 bankroll from the original $250, to win the 2017 Keeneland Fall Challenge.
The latest on-site tournament to be introduced at Gulfstream Park takes place on December 9. It’s the Gulfstream Caribbean Classic, which carries a $2,000 buy-in, of which $1,500 goes to the player’s live bankroll. A full 100% of entry fees will be returned as prizes—in the form of four seats to the Pegasus World Cup Handicapping Championship on January 26-27 and two seats to the NHC (based on 100 entries).
The first-ever qualifier to the Gulfstream Caribbean Classic takes place on Sunday. And it’s just one of several exciting events on tap this weekend at HorseTourneys and HorsePlayers.
He’s been playing the horses since the early 1980s. So where does Howard Welsh’s win—worth $40,000—in last Saturday’s $100,000 Guaranteed contest at HorseTourneys rank among his greatest victories?
Courtesy of Santa Anita Park, here are the daily top 10 leaderboards from each day of last weekend’s three-day Santa Anita Autumn Handicapping Challenge. Congratulations to daily winners Eduardo Carbajal (Friday), Christian Hellmers (Saturday) and Robert Talstra (Sunday).
Howard Welsh of Basking Ridge, N.J. became the second-ever winner of a HorseTourneys $100,000 contest, when he picked five winners and two runners up from 15 races to amass $160.60 and secure Saturday’s $40,000 top prize.
You know it’s a big weekend when Keeneland opens the doors to its Fall meet and the Breeders’ Cup preps start flying at you fast and furious. Saturday is also one of the biggest days ever at HorseTourneys as we host just our second ever $100,000 Guaranteed tourney.
If you’re looking to qualify online this month for next February’s National Horseplayers Championship (NHC) at Treasure Island in Las Vegas, look no further than HorseTourneys.com.
Last Friday’s $75 NHC Qualifier at HorsePlayers was very well attended. Despite a somewhat imposing winning ratio of 1 in 143, the tourney attracted 314 entries.
This is one of those rare weekends in which Saturday ends one month and Sunday begins another. Wait…actually, it’s not all that rare—it happens once every seven months on average. But if you like horse racing, and if the months in question are September and October, then you know it’s an important weekend that’s chock full of important Breeders’ Cup prep races.
Ed Peters started the second and final day of The BIG One with just $200 left from his starting bankroll of $1,000. And it went downhill from there.
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