Topping a field of more than 3,725 of the nation’s best horseplayers over a 12-month period, Dave Nichols of Wayne, PA, captured the 2025 National Horseplayers Championship (NHC) Tour. Nichols earned $75,000 for winning the Tour and is eligible for a $5 million bonus if he captures the 27th NTRA National Horseplayers Championship (NHC), March 13-15 at Horseshoe Las Vegas.
Nichols won online and ontrack contests during the 2025 Tour season while amassing 24,492 Tour points.
“I’m extremely excited to win the NHC Tour. As a regular contest player, this was always my biggest goal, so I’m ecstatic to have ended up on top,” said Nichols. “There is very little that separates the top players on the Tour, so I was very fortunate to wind up the winner. I’m sure the top 10 or 15 players on this year’s Tour could point to one race or one contest where, if things had gone a little differently for them, they would have ended up as the Tour Champion. Jill Matzat was every bit as good as I was this year. It was bound to come down to a photo finish between us, and I was lucky enough to get my nose down at the wire.”
2024 – Brett Wiener
2023 – Kevin Costello
2022 – Jay Johns
2021 – Kevin Costello
2020 – Sally Goodall
2019 – David Snyder
2018 – David Gutfreund
2017 – Mike Ferrozzo
2016 – Cheryl McIntyre
2015 – Jonathon Kinchen
2014 – Eric Moomey
2013 – Brent Sumja
2012 – Mark Streiff
2011 – Paul Shurman
2010 – Tom Noone
2009 – Bryan Wagner
