2024 NHC Championship
 

Rolls on this weekend, and a close friend is back in for his 4th straight year taking another run at it.

Friday Mandatories are out:

R5 Gulfstream
R5 Oaklawn
R9 Tampa Bay
R8 Aqueduct
R2 Turfway
R8 Santa Anita

Along with the 6 Mandatory races, contestants have 10 optional races they can choose from: Aqueduct, Fair Grounds (Races 1-6), Golden Gate Fields, Gulfstream, Laurel Park, Oaklawn, Santa Anita, Tampa Bay Downs, Turfway Park (Races 1-6).

All 'wagers' the mythical $2WP. No other wager types allowed.

I believe this is the first year Turfway has been available as an NHC contest track.

Last Chance First Chance also out for Thursday.

Those Mandatories are:

R2 Fair Grounds
R5 Gulfstream
R5 Fair Grounds
R7 Oaklawn

Good luck to any and all on this forum in the mix this weekend. :ThmbUp:

Enjoy socializing and flirting without limits.
 

Free connections, it won't be boring
Real Women

From a good source , there's going to be upwards of 20 HTR users there

Thanks. Good Luck to all who enter.

Tough field. The contestants that is. :popcorn:

ABOUT THE 2024 NHC FIELD
•Katelynn Andaur (League City, TX, Horseplayers.com) is the youngest qualifier at 22 years old.
•Dave Basler (Grove City, OH, Xpressbet) is the Executive Director of the Ohio Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association (HBPA).
•Michael Beychok (Baton Rouge, LA, HorsePlayers.com) and Christian Helmers (Del Mar, CA, Xpressbet) were co-stars in the 2014 Esquire reality TV show, Horseplayers.
•Karl Broberg (Arlington, TX, Hawthorne, Lone Star Park) is annually one of the nation’s leading trainers by races won.
•Dale Day (Yukon, OK, Horseplayers.com) is the Track Announcer at Remington Park in Oklahoma City.
•Ed DeRosa (Goshen, KY, Hawthorne Race Course) is a writer for Horse Racing Nation.
•Basil DeVito (Akron, OH, HorsePlayers.com, HorseTourneys.com) has worked for Indiana basketball coach Bob Knight, WWE co-founder Vince McMahon, and was the first Commissioner of the XFL.
•Chris Fallica (Farmington, CT, HorsePlayers.com) was a longtime regular on ESPN College GameDay who now works for FOX.
•Gary Fenton (Sherman Oaks, CA, NTRA) is the Chairman of the Thoroughbred Owners of California (TOC) and a Managing Partner of Little Red Feather Racing Stable.
•Marshall Gramm (Memphis, TN, Keeneland) is an economics professor at Rhodes College who teaches a course on handicapping and is a founder and Managing Partner of Ten Strike Racing stable.
•Bob Hansan (McLean, VA, Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge) owns Bobby McKeys Dueling Piano Bar in National Harbor, MD.
•Dick Jerardi (Yardley, PA, Xpressbet, Keeneland) is one of the most respected and decorated sports writers in America and won an Eclipse Award 2006 for his coverage of Barbaro.
•Jay Johns (Meridian, ID, HorseTourneys.com), winner of the 2022 NHC Tour, is the President of IHOP (formerly International House of Pancakes).
•Three generations of the Matties family are represented at the 2024 NHC: patriarch Chick, NHC Hall of Fame brothers Paul and Duke, and Duke’s son, Carson.
•Eddie Olczyk (Long Grove, IL, Hawthorne) played 16 seasons and in more than 1,000 games during an illustrious career in the National Hockey League (NHC) that included a Stanley Cup with the New York Rangers in 1994.
•Tom Quinones (La Grange, IL, HorsePlayers.com) is a first time qualifier and the director of digital marketing at the Daily Racing Form.
•Eric Roth (Malibu, CA, Horseplayers.com) is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter (Forrest Gump, 1995) who co-wrote the screenplay for Killers of the Flower Moon with Martin Scorsese.
•John Sheeran (Jersey City, NJ, Horseplayers.com) is the senior commercial director at Fan Duel.
•Ellis Starr (Lexington, KY, HorsePlayers.com) is the National Racing Analyst for Equibase.
•Dave Tuley (Las Vegas, NV, NTRA) is a longtime writer for Daily Racing Form.

And obviously many many more. Gonna be some pretty sharp and successful cats in that room.

Ellis Starr is PA Member ubercapper.

A lot of high ranking people in the racing business.....


But the sport is still declining...


Isn't that ironic.....

rumor has it that some entrants in these contests employed a teamwork strategy

WOW! That's so cool! She's my age :)

If she finishes in a high spot (even if she doesn't), I'll ask the NHC for her contact info (or try and find it myself ;) ) to get a partnership going to work together to bring in more younger folks like us.

Could make it happen! Best of luck, Katelynn! :cool:

Good one....

I'm sure the Collusion Police are watching....

How did these people qualify? Through satellite tournaments?

I'm betting on the following:

Dictionary
BEARD
INFORMAL•US
a person who carries out a transaction, typically a bet, for someone else in order to conceal the other's identity.
"the beard permitted the manipulator to protect the odds"

RR

I'm sure I'll get roasted for this by the Conley Fan Club, but this comment comes off as really creepy. This isn't Tinder and you shouldn't be tracking down some random woman's contact information because she's in a handicapping contest. Get a life and leave her alone.

I wasn't trying to come off as creepy. Was just saying that it's cool to see young people in the game, especially at a young age. Wasn't actually going to "contact" her ok. :rolleyes:

And what fan club? I didn't realize I had one? :lol:

Trust me I have a life. I'm at college my friend trying to advance my studies into Broadcasting :)

:D:D