June 2024

The NHC tour is kicking off a contest packed summer with already 159 NHC 2025 qualifiers and 29 double qualifiers.

Last year’s Rookie of the Year and the James Nace Award recipient, Terrence Frank, secured his 2025 NHC seat on Horseplayers.com on May 12. May First-time qualifiers that have won their way to the NHC are Nathan Woodward, William McMillan, David Alexander, and James Cosenza.

Hall of Famer, Brett Wiener won the May 4th Santa Anita/Xpressbet Derby Day Challenge. Where he finished first out of 190 entries.He turned his $2000 bankroll into $91,500 in cash and prizes. Brett is sitting in second place on the NHC Tour Leaderboard with 15,658 points.

Click here to view all the current 2025 NHC Qualifiers.

George Novick

Chris Fallica

Vincent Easley

Lone Star Park Memorial Day Weekend Series

Lone Star Park hosted its annual Lone Star Million Challenge over Memorial Day weekend. Players were offered two opportunities to the $2,500 contest buy-in on site at Lone Star Park on Saturday, May 25 and Sunday, May 26. Two NHC seats were awarded in each of those feeder contests. Eugene Cahalan and Vincent Easley took home the NHC seats on Saturday and Kim Dixon and Brendan Fay secured their NHC berths on Sunday.

A whopping 8 NHC seats were awarded on Memorial Day. Vincent Easley finished in first place with a $7,955 bankroll. Jake Brown, Jeff Sandler, Charley Witt, James Cosenza, Kim Dixon, Joe Rumfolo and Dave Ramfold respectively finished second through eighth.

For more information on upcoming Lone Star Park contests click here.

Monmouth Park Pick Your Prize This Weekend

The most exciting contest in the Garden State is this upcoming weekend Saturday, June 1 – the annual Monmouth Park Pick Your Prize contest. Last year the competition yielded 25 NHC seats, 8 BCBC seats, and a whopping $100,000 in cash. With 299 entries, the 33rd place finisher punched their ticket to the NHC. This year’s contest features a $2,000 buy-in and can be played on-site or through Xpressbet, TVG or 4NJBETS. As a bonus for all the players who make their way to the shore, Monmouth is also hosting a $300 NHC Qualifier on Sunday, June 2 which is on-site only.

“When we started the Pick Your Prize Handicapping Challenge back in 2016, we only could have dreamed that we would be on verge of eclipsing 300 entries,” said Monmouth Park Tournament director Brian Skirka. “We can’t thank the nation’s contest players enough for their continued support of this contest. We wanted to create a unique prize structure that offered something for every player, and we think we’ve accomplished that. The goal of Pick Your Prize is to provide the player with the right to choose whichever treasure chest he or she covets most, while at the same time sending as many players as possible to the NHC and BCBC – the country’s premier contest events. We’re thrilled to say that Pick Your Prizes’ 25 NHC seats awarded is annually the most by any racetrack in a single contest. But we couldn’t do that without the annual support of the players who show up to play and bring their friends. Pick Your Prize Day is one of our favorite days of the year, and we can’t wait for this year’s event.”

All on-site, TVG or 4NJBETS players must be registered with me by Friday, 31 at 12:00pm ET. Xpressbet players can sign up on Xpressbet directly or through tournament director Brian Skirka. For more information on the contest, visit Monmouth.com.

June NHC Qualifiers

Subject to Change

Delaware Park

  • June 22│$500 Major Handicapping Tournament– 2 seats guaranteed. ONTRACK

Hawthorne

  • June 29 | The Hawthorne $500 Summer Contest – 2 seats guaranteed. ONTRACK
  • June 30 | The Hawthorne $500 Summer Contest – 3 seats guaranteed. ONTRACK

Horseplayers.com

  • June 1 | $165 – 2 seats guaranteed.
  • June 2 | $210 – 2 seats guaranteed.
  • June 7 | $75 – 2 seats guaranteed.
  • June 8 | $165 – 2 seats guaranteed.
  • June 14 | $75 – 2 seats guaranteed.
  • June 15 | $500 – 1 seat guaranteed.
  • June 16 | $125 – SPECIAL Father’s Day Contest – 5 seats guaranteed.
  • June 21 | $75 – 2 seats guaranteed.
  • June 22 | $210 – 2 seats guaranteed.
  • June 28 | $75 – 2 seats guaranteed.
  • June 30 | $125 – SPECIAL – 3 seats guaranteed.

Horseshoe Indianapolis

  • June 6 – August 29 | Summer at the Shoe FREE – 2 seats guaranteed. HYBRID

Horsetourneys.com

  • June 9 | $165 – 2 seats guaranteed.
  • June 15 | $165 – 2 seats guaranteed.
  • June 23 | $165 – 2 seats guaranteed.
  • June 29 | $165 – 2 seats guaranteed.

Lone Star Park

  • June 29 | $1000 Lone Star Summer Betting Challenge – 2 seats guaranteed. ONTRACK

Monmouth Park

  • June 1 | $2000 Pick Your Prize Handicapping Challenge – Final number of entries will determine prizes (18 seats guaranteed at 200 entries). HYBRID
  • June 2 | $300 NHC Qualifier – 2 seats guaranteed. ONTRACK

Santa Anita/Xpressbet

  • June 8 | $1500 Belmont Stakes Challenge – 2 seats guaranteed. HYBRID
  • June 15 $500 Santa Anita Challenge – 2 seats guaranteed. HYBRID
  • June 16 │$1500 Santa Anita Closing Day Challenge – 2 seats guaranteed. HYBRID

NHC Tour Leaderboard Update

The NHC Tour Leaderboard has been updated through May 30. The 2024 Tour Rules can be found here.

REMINDER: Please ensure your NHC Tour membership is valid and active prior to playing in any NHC qualifiers.