Author: Eric Wing

Special $15,000 Guaranteed Cash Tourney on Thursday and Two Separate Low Ratio NHC Qualifiers on Saturday Just Some of the Items on the Featured Menu During Extended Thanksgiving Weekend at HorseTourneys and HorsePlayers

Many people rate Thanksgiving as their favorite holiday of the year. We assume that it gets the nod over Christmas because of the many competitions available at HorseTourneys on Turkey Day—including our $15,000 Guaranteed Pick & Pray.

Gary Machiz and Darren Rudnick Each Strike Early and Often; Darren Yarwood Takes First Tampa Play-in and is Also Heading to Hawthorne; Michael Beychok Qualifies for NHC (Weekly Recap, November 17-21)

Two of this past week’s hottest players wasted no time in making their identities known. As a result, we are able to present this particular Monday recap in essentially straight, chronological order.

First Qualifier to HorseTourneys-Presented Tournament at Tampa Bay Downs Plus First-Chance Play-Ins to Del Mar, Santa Anita and the 2022 BCBC Highlight the Featured Action This Friday, Saturday and Sunday

On January 8th of next year, HorseTourneys will present the Tampa Bay Downs First Chance/Last Chance NHC qualifier. It’s an on-site event taking place at the Oldsmar, Fla., oval—a proverbial stone’s throw from HorseTourneys headquarters in Saint Petersburg. 

James Lisowsky Captures Four Features in 72 Hours; David May Takes Home $8,300 Plus a Flo-Cal Faceoff Seat; Wendy Long Misses Narrowly on Friday and Saturday, Then Prevails Narrowly on Sunday (Weekly Recap, November 10-14)

It was a very good week for James Lisowsky. It got started for him on Thursday with three quick winners out of the gate in the day’s featured $5,000 Guaranteed Pick & Pray…followed by two winners and a place later on.

Four NHC Qualifiers and First Chance for Hawthorne Berth Headline 15 Featured Events This Friday, Saturday and Sunday

With the 2021 Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge now in the history books, we can now—at least for the time being—narrow our focus to seats for NHC, the $250,000 Guaranteed Flo-Cal Faceoff, the Thanksgiving Weekend contests at Hawthorne and, of course, the always popular prize of…cash.

Joseph Costello Collects $42,756 in Two-Day, BC Tourney; Miguel Wenceslao Wins Even More Across Two Events; Rudolph Hardin Captures Significant Cash Game on Saturday and Another on Sunday (Weekly Recap, November 3-7)

Sometimes we’re trained to think that to prevail in a big-day tourney, you almost have to sweep the card. That’s almost never the case, of course, and in our richest event of Breeders’ Cup Weekend, it wasn’t the case at all.

Breeders’ Cup Weekend Featured Tourneys Offer $262,000 in Guaranteed Cash While Free Two-Day NHC Qualifier at HorsePlayers to Award Five 2022 Seats

We have so many cash tourneys on Breeders’ Cup Friday and Saturday—between two-day games, single-day full-card events and early/late card competitions—that you can really tailor your play to which races you like the most. 

Brian Chenvert Cleans Up on Saturday; Michael Caposio, Ronald Tang, Vic Stauffer and Ken Seeman Each Win Featured Cash Tourneys Plus Contest Qualifiers; Tom Cooper Kills One Bird with Two Stones (Weekly Recap, October 27-31)

We’d call Brian Chenvert’s Saturday a year-maker, but that would be pretty unfair to him because the Minnesotan seems to have these days every couple of weeks.

Final Weekend Before the BCBC Offers Seven Different Opportunities to Qualify for the World’s Richest and Most Prestigious Live Bankroll Handicapping Tournament.

The Breeders’ Cup—and, therefore, the Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge—begins a week from tomorrow at Del Mar. As some handicappers begin studying the pre-entries released yesterday, others are poring over the PPs of Belmont, Keeneland, Woodbine and Santa Anita. Why? Because those are the tracks that will supply the featured-tourney races this weekend for the seven […]

Eric Kurzhal Amasses Three BCBC Entries in 48 Hours; Tim Smith Collects Pick 4 Jackpot; Jorge Cruz-Aedo Racks Up Three Grand Prizes (Weekly Recap, October 20-24)

In the old days, D, Wayne Lukas used to run three-horse coupled entries in races like the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (See 1985.) This year, after the results of this weekend’s tourneys, that may be Eric Kurzhal in the Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge.