How Bongiovanni Took the NHC Day 1 Lead
Based on mythical $2 Win-Place bets on 18 races. Mandatory races in bold. “Cap” races, where win payoff is limited to $42 and place to $22, in italics. Track (race #) [...]
Saturday NHC Races — Semifinal Menu and Final Table Mandatory Schedule
SEMIFINAL RACE MENU Track and Races (listed in order of first post time) Gulfstream 1-7 Aqueduct 1-7 Tampa Bay 1-7 Oaklawn 1-3 Fair Grounds 1-3 Santa Anita 1-2 FINAL TABLE [...]
NHC Day 1 Recap: Bongiovanni Takes NHC Lead With Two Cap Horses
LAS VEGAS (Thursday, January 28, 2016) – First-time qualifier Phil Bongiovanni, a 43-year-old Thoroughbred racehorse owner from Yorba Linda, Calif., leads the 17th Daily Racing Form/NTRA NHC Presented by Racetrack [...]
Rees Blog: First-Time Qualifier Blevins Relaxed On Day One
By Jennie Rees for NTRA.com LAS VEGAS — Lisa Blevins has been handicapping the horses since growing up in Newport, Ky., when Turfway Park was known as Latonia Race Course. [...]
Rees Blog: Keeneland’s Goodman Knows How to Win Contests From Running Them
By Jennie Rees for NTRA.com LAS VEGAS — Jim Goodman estimates that he knows about three-quarters of the more than 500 competitors in the $2.77 million DRF/NTRA National Handicapping Championship [...]
Rees Blog: TDN’s Decaspers Reports While He Plays at NHC
By Jennie Rees for NTRA.com LAS VEGAS — Thoroughbred Daily News has an embedded reporter at the DRF/NTRA National Handicapping Championship at Treasure Island. And who better than Steve Decaspers [...]
2016 NHC Rookie and Cyberstars Awards Pool Coming Exclusively to NHCQualify.com; NHC ‘Cyberstar’ Eligible for $1 Million Bonus
LAS VEGAS (Thursday, January 28, 2016) – The National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) today announced that NHCqualify.com, the official online qualifying site of the Daily Racing Form/NTRA National Handicapping Championship [...]
NHC Mandatory Races — Friday
Track and Race #, Post time (PT) Gulfstream 4, 11:05 a.m. Tampa Bay 6, 11:55 a.m. Oaklawn 4, 12:52 p.m. Aqueduct 8, 1:20 p.m. Oaklawn 7, 2:14 p.m. Gulfstream 11, 2:35 p.m. Fair [...]
NHC Wednesday Notes: NHC Back at TI in 2017; Record Purse; Thursday Mandatory Races
LAS VEGAS (Wednesday, January 27, 2016) – On the eve of the 17th Daily Racing Form/NTRA NHC Presented by Racetrack Television Network and Treasure Island Las Vegas, the National Thoroughbred [...]
Rees Blog: Kovalesky Wins Treasure Island Last Chance Off Layoff
By Jennie Rees for NTRA.com LAS VEGAS — Danny Kovalesky had not bet on the races at Gulfstream Park all year until Wednesday, when he participated in the Treasure Island [...]