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The Horse Player World Series—Back at HorseTourneys This Weekend and…Just Maybe…More Popular Than Ever

Qualifiers begin this week at HorseTourneys for one of the mileposts of every contest year, the Horse Player World Series. The first direct qualifier comes this Saturday, Travers Day. It’s an entry-only qualifier for $90. Always more steak than sizzle, the Horse Player World Series seems like it goes in and out of fashion more […]

Jeffrey Harryman Wins Laurel Champions Tournament

Jeffrey Harryman turned a starting bankroll of $200 into $2,214.50 to win the Laurel Champions Tournament at Laurel Park on Saturday, August 18. Harryman won a $10,000 Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge entry, a cash bonus of $2,790, plus his final bankroll total was his to keep. His total return: cash and prizes worth $15,004.50.

Stephen Luca Doubles Up; The Stephens Triple Up; Joe Pettit Coming in Hot to The BIG One; Steve Arrison Wins NHC Seats Here and at Indiana Grand (Weekend Recap August 17-19)

Scores were generally tight during a Pick & Pray weekend that saw many tourneys won with late-contest winners. The first such example of this came in our first featured event of the weekend, Friday’s $5,000 Guaranteed Pick & Pray.

Paul Shurman and Joe Pettit Win Saratoga Challenges

By Najja Thompson, NYRA On Friday, August 10 and Saturday, August 11, the New York Racing Association hosted the Saratoga Challenge and the Fourstardave Challenge live money handicapping tournaments, offering a total of over $225,000 in cash prizes as well as two qualifying seats to the 2019 Belmont Stakes Challenge and 8 seats to the […]

Free NHC Contest, Last Chance for Monmouth; and Up-to-$30,000 Saturday Tourney Highlight Another Big Summer Weekend.

As the summer racing schedule moves on to Alabama-Pacific Classic weekend, HorseTourneys is ready with 14 featured tournaments that—with just one exception—are all Pick & Pray competitions. So if you like the “set-it-and-forget-it” nature of Pick & Prays, this is a great weekend for you.

Stephen Perreira and Joe Johnson Double Up; Michael Kavana Beats Himself; Dan Flanigan Returning to The BIG One (Weekend Recap August 10-12)

It was a live-format weekend for the most part at HorseTourneys and HorsePlayers. That often serves as an impediment to players winning multiple tourneys—but not this week.

Three Shots Each at NHC and BCBC, Plus Up-to-$30,000 Tourney and Qualifiers to The BIG One, Woodbine and More on Tap this Weekend.

Live-format tourneys are the order of the day this coming weekend that will see no fewer than 18 featured tourneys contested. With Saratoga and Del Mar in full swing, it should be another exciting—not to mention, lucrative—three days.

Unexpected Weekend at Home With the Dog Turns Very Profitable for Stephen Curtin

Stephen Curtin loves playing tournaments, but between his job as a grocery industry consultant and taking his 12- and 9-year-old boys to baseball and hockey games almost every weekend, the Quincy, Mass., resident really doesn’t have time to travel to onsite handicapping contests. So the 51-year-old largely sticks to cash games at HorseTourneys.

Stephen Curtin Sweeps the Big Saturday-Sunday Cash Games; The Wieners Take Three on Sunday (Weekend Recap August 3-5)

It’s an uncommon feat to win featured tourneys on consecutive days. It’s pretty much unheard of to sweep the weekend’s two major cash games. Stephen Curtin of Quincy, Mass., did just that last weekend, earning a total of $24,911 in featured Pick & Prays worth $40,000 and $15,539, respectively on Saturday and Sunday.

Guaranteed $40,000 All-Stakes Pick & Pray and Last Chance to Qualify for Saratoga Headline Whitney Weekend.

One of the biggest days on the mid-summer racing schedule comes up on Saturday as the Whitney Stakes and West Virginia Derby cards provide a veritable smorgasbord of stakes. Our Saturday featured schedule, therefore, offers nothing but stakes races on the 12-race syllabus. Solve these races and you could win big money in our special […]