HorseTourneys Announces New “Tourney Triple” Series for 2021, Including $2 Million Bonus for a Series Sweep and a $1 Million Bonus for Capturing Two Legs – plus Prizes for the Top Three Performers
HorseTourneys will unveil a special three-tourney series in 2021, the Tourney Triple, that combines two of the year’s most popular online events with a brand new competition in April—and that offers bonus prizes** for top finishers, including a $2 million bonus should a player sweep the three events and a $1 million bonus should someone win two of the three series legs.
The Tourney Triple will begin with the January 9-10 Flo-Cal Faceoff, a Saturday-Sunday, $1,500 buy-in tourney in which players make mythical selections on each race from the days’ full cards at Gulfstream and Santa Anita. Earlier this year, Thomas Blosser of Cornville, Arizona, won $88,000 in the inaugural edition of the Flo-Cal Faceoff, which had a total purse of $225,000. Feeders and qualifiers for the Flo-Cal Faceoff are now available.
The series will continue in April with the new HorseTourneys Players Championship. Scheduled for April 2-3, the Players Championship will require contestants to make 15 mythical win-and-place selections each day from approximately 30 available races spread across a variety of the weekend’s racetracks. The entry fee for the Players Championship is expected to be $2,000.
The Tourney Triple will conclude on August 14-15 with the highly popular Spa & Surf Showdown, a two-day, full-card tourney featuring racing from two of America’s showpiece racing venues, Saratoga and Del Mar. The most recent edition of the Showdown last month featured a record online purse of $644,000 and was won by Scott Fiedler of Babylon, N.Y. Fiedler earned a winner’s share of $232,112 plus an additional $16,000 in day-bonus money. In 2019, NHC Hall of Fame Paul Shurman of Dix Hills, N.Y., won $109,000 in the first Spa & Surf Showdown. The entry fee for the 2021 Spa & Surf Showdown is expected to be $2,500.
(Dates for the Tourney Triple competitions are tentative and subject to change.)
In addition to the $1 Million bonus for winning two of three, and the $2 million bonus for a sweep, there will be bonus prizes awarded to the top three overall performers in the Tourney Triple series—based on a points formula that will award 100 points for a first-place finish, 99 points for second, down to 1 point for a 100th-place finish. The overall points leader at the end of the Tourney Triple will receive a $10,000 Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge (BCBC) entry and a National Horseplayers Championship (NHC) entry (or $5,000 in lieu of an NHC seat if the winner is already double-qualified to the NHC). The person with the second-most points will earn a $10,000 BCBC entry, and the third-place points finisher will receive an entry to the 2021 edition of The BIG One at Laurel Park plus $500 for travel.
“In a relatively short period of time, players have made the Flo-Cal Faceoff and Spa & Surf Showdown two of the most important events on the contest calendar,” said McKay Smith, President of HorseTourneys. “By adding the Players Championship and tying all three together with an attractive bonus program, we believe that we will be even better positioned to recognize and reward the people who are truly the lifeblood of the racing industry—the players. We also want to thank our racetrack partners including those at The Stronach Group, The New York Racing Association, Inc., Keeneland and the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club for their ongoing support and cooperation in making exciting tourneys like these available to racing fans.”
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**Bonus Info:
For the $ 2 Million Prize:
(a) a forty (40) year annuity that pays out $50,000 per year for forty (40) years, OR
(b) a lump sum cash settlement of $1,200,000
For the $1 Million Prize:
(a) a forty (40) year annuity that pays out $25,000 per year for forty (40) years, OR
(b) a lump sum cash settlement of $600,000.