September 2023

Welcome back to the August edition of the NHC at the Post, your monthly update on all the happenings of the National Horseplayers Championship Tour and more.

July continued the NHC Tour with over two dozen contests and over 50 guaranteed seats up for grabs to the 25th National Horseplayers Championship at the Horseshoe Las Vegas.

The first week of July included one of the five NHC free contests and had 1,842 entries and three guaranteed spots which were won by Keith Simon, Bruce Francisco, and Daniel Perry. Dylan Kelley celebrated Independence Day by winning his spot to the NHC who won his spot via the $125 July 4th special on Horseplayers.com. Other weekend Horseplayers.com qualifiers are below.

The second week of contests brought 8 on track qualifiers for #NHC2024 and the first on track qualifying spots of July. The qualifiers at Horseshoe on July 7th included 2013 NHC Champion Jim Benes and William Miller. The qualifiers from July 8th were Troy Bandemer, Tim Stupka, Frank Mustari, and Vincent Easley. Los Alamitos also hosted a $500 on track qualifying event on July 8th that awarded 2 spots to NHC2024 to Len Hanson and David Gutfreund.

Week three brought almost a dozen guaranteed spots and one on track qualifying event, the William Moore Classic, held at Delaware Park with spots awarded to Eric Wing and Brendan Fay. Wing was the longtime master of ceremonies at the NHC and we’re excited to welcome him back as a player on our 25th anniversary.

The fourth week of competition included Monmouth Park’s $1000 Haskell Online Challenge that awarded 2 guaranteed spots to Frank Polk and David Browning.

The final weekend of contests in July awarded five players NHC seats from the on track contests at Del Mar and Treasure Island. The winners from Del Mar were Brett Wiener, Todd Faro, and Linda Rodriguez. Robert Ruocco and Orazio Panaggio from Treasure Island contest will be joining them at NHC 2024.

Horseplayers.com & Horsetourneys.com awarded 36 spots to 32 horseplayers to the 25th National Horseplayers Championship throughout the month of July to the following: 2022 NHC Tour Champion Jay Johns, Chris Cupples (double qualified), Mark Heider, Steve Nemetz, Louis Masry, Ciaran Thornton, Jeff Bussan, Wendy Long (double qualified), Alexander Calzi, Tom Quinones, Terence Channon, Basil Devito (double qualified), David Decauwer, Albion Benton, Dave Nichols (double qualified), Jay Coatta, Darryl Lacy (double qualified), Robert Grace, Todd Faro (double qualified), Mike McIntyre, Sean Nolan, Geoffrey Schutt, Gilbert Maldonado, William Shurman, Michael Marlaire, Jim Sebes, Thomas Cassidy, Kevin Costello, Matthew Ache, Ben Gibson, Mark Richards, and Jason Alonzo.

Todd Cady

Raymond Gallant, Jr.

David Nelson

Howard Kaplan

Daniel Warden

Alan Hoffman

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