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The Greatest Two and a Half Minutes in Sports

I’ve been to a whole bunch of Kentucky Derbys and Breeders’ Cups plus a Super Bowl and a World Series game. They’re all great spectacles but, for me, none of them come close to matching the excitement of the Belmont Stakes—when there is a Triple Crown on the line.

Gary Machiz Continues his Hot Streak—He, Cory Hodskins and Paul Shurman all Double Up; Jorge Cruz-Aedo Wins Second Straight Exacta Tourney (Weekend Recap June 1-3)

On Memorial Day, Gary Machiz won both our $12,600 Pick & Pray and our NHC Lower Ratio qualifier. Little did we know he was just getting warmed up.

Bill Rendino wins Monmouth Park Pick Your Prize Tournament

Bill Rendino, a 62-year-old retired New York City fire chief, turned his starting bankroll of $1,000 into a final total of $10,375 to finish first among 205 entries in the June 2 Monmouth Park Pick Your Prize Tournament.

New Qualifiers for Orleans Fall Classic, Keeneland NHC/BCBC Challenge Plus Belmont Stakes Last Chance and The BIG One Qualifiers Kick First June Weekend Off in Style

We’re very excited about our $75,000 Guaranteed, No-Limit tourney on Belmont Stakes Day, June 9. There’s a lot of lucrative action between now and then, however, including this upcoming weekend when we’ll see two new events join the HorseTourneys 2018 roster of qualifiers, and we’ll also be offering a last-chance play-in game for the big […]

Geoffrey Schutt Hits “Late Pick 3” to win $11,000; Gary Machiz has Memorable Memorial Day; Mitch Schuman Takes Backseat to only Tanya Taylor and Harvey Weinstein (Weekend Recap May 25-28)

It was a very wet Memorial Day weekend for many horseplayers—and a very profitable one for others.

Last Chance Monmouth Pick Your Prize Qualifier and New Gulfstream Seize the Speed and NHC Lower Ratio Tourneys Highlight Memorial Day Weekend

Last Chances and first chances abound at HorseTourneys this weekend on a Memorial Day Weekend when the vast majority of featured events will be run as Pick & Prays.

Allan Sadler Wins $40,000 in Overlaid $100,000 Game in which Runners Up Prospered Elsewhere Too; Luke Peltz’s Giant Score has him Monmouth Bound (Weekend Recap May 18-20)

The crummy weather in Baltimore on Preakness Day seemed to do a couple of things. It created a surface at Pimlico that generated a lot of short-priced winners—and the uncertainty of slop and boggy turf contributed to a reduced field in our Preakness Day $100,000 Guaranteed tourney. But HorseTourneys’ misfortune meant good fortune for contest […]

Up-to-$150,000 Preakness Day Tourney Tops Blockbuster Weekend Filled With Rich Qualifiers and Cash Games

What promises to be the richest game in HorseTourneys history—a Preakness-Day 14-race, live-format up-to-$150,000 tourney—leads a parade of 14 featured events during the upcoming Friday-Saturday-Sunday weekend.

Adam Thoutt, Anthony Trezza and Ken Seeman Multi-Table Their Way to Dual Weekend Successes (Weekend Recap May 11-13)

The notion that tournaments reward those who are great, not good, is already baked into contest play with top prizes reserved for those who finish only at or near the top. Many players take this fundamental concept to the next level by playing multiple tournaments in a single day. Three of them—Adam Thoutt, Anthony Trezza […]

Double Shots at NHC, BCBC Plus Up-to-$30,000 Tourney and Qualifiers for Del Mar, Monmouth and Saratoga Headline Pre-Preakness Weekend

Next weekend, Pimlico officials will be telling you to “Get your Preak on.” This weekend, we tell you to “Get your Pre-Preak on” with several valuable tourneys that will bridge the gap between Derby and Preakness and then some.