The date has been set for the 2018 renewal of The BIG One. It’s September 22-23, and once again, it will be hosted at Laurel Park.
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April 8, 2021
The date has been set for the 2018 renewal of The BIG One. It’s September 22-23, and once again, it will be hosted at Laurel Park.
You’ll see that there’s a comma between the two numbers in the title of this posting rather than a dash. That’s because Saturday, January 6 didn’t go as planned, to put it mildly.
We’re in a weird stretch of the calendar when a normal Friday-Saturday-Sunday weekend is the exception rather than the rule. Two weeks ago was Christmas. Last week was New Year’s. Next week is Martin Luther King Jr. weekend. This weekend, though, we’ll all have to make due with just three days of featured tournaments. But […]
It’s hard to say for sure who a “Contest Player of the Year” award for 2017 might go to. A sensible choice would be Ray Arsenault for having won the NHC in the early part of the year. Christopher Dewey is the current leader, as of this writing, in the NHC Tour standings, so he […]
Congratulations to Alan Bourke, Brian Knowles and (HorseTourneys qualifier) Mark McGuire. They were the winners last weekend on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, respectively at Surfside.
Congratulations to Friday, December 29 winner (and HorseTourneys qualifier) John Ukleja and Saturday, December 30 victor Paul Langley. In addition to winning an NHC seat by virtue of their respective triumphs, each is now eligible for a $1 million bonus should he go on to win the NHC in February at Treasure Island.
New Year’s Day is not known as a particularly religious holiday (even if January 1 actually is a “holy day of obligation” in the Catholic Church). Be that as it may, you can be assured that there will be a whole lot of praying going on this weekend—a lot of picking and praying, to be […]
It was a curtailed weekend of contest action by the calendar. But not really in terms of the number of featured tourneys. Heck, even our single-track Gulfstream Pool-style tourney on Sunday wound up paying out more than $10,000. So despite the Christmas holiday, there’s still a lot to catch up on.
With Christmas Eve falling on Sunday and Christmas Day on Monday, that means a compressed racing schedule. But not a subpar featured schedule at HorseTourneys and HorsePlayers. Essentially, what we might have lost on Sunday, we are plowing into Friday and Saturday. The net result: 13 featured tourneys…and—in case your holiday shopping is complete—a nice […]
For the second straight weekend, no one won more than one top prize in our featured tourneys (although one player came close). And Sunday’s action reminded us once again of both the formidable power of a well-chosen bomb…and the ways to overcome adversity when the bomb drops and you don’t have it.