August Recap

August is always an exciting contest month with great racing across the country.

TwinSpires kicked off its NHC series of contests in August and awarded 6 players NHC seats, two to first-time NHC qualifiers, Jon Oakes and Marilynn Gallagher. The other NHC berths went to Peter Smeding, Ciaran Thornton, and Darren Yarwood. Look for future TwinSpires contest in the upcoming months.

Little Red Feather hosted its Little Red Feather Cares Charity Challenge at Del Mar and on TVG.com on August 11 awarding Cliff Pardo and Joe Rosen their first 2025 NHC seat.

Horseplayers.com and Horsetourneys.com awarded 27 NHC seats through August 26^th. Past NHC Champion Chris Littlemore won his berth on Horseplayers.com on August 25^th. Past Tour Champions, Sally Goodall and Jay Johns are now double qualified to NHC 2025 through Horseplayers.com.

Monmouth Park hosted two contests in August awarding seats to NHC past Champion John O’Neil, past BCBC Champion Matt Miller, 4-time NHC Qualifier Frank Paros, NHC Players’ Committee Chairman, Chris Larmey, NHC Tour mentor, Robin Buser and 5-time NHC Qualifier, Michael Doheny.

Currently there are 300 NHC entries and 65 double qualifiers. Click here to see who is on their way to the NHC to be held March 14-16, 2025 at Horseshoe Las Vegas.

Chris Littlemore

Joe Rosen

Darren Yarwood

This September there are two NHC qualifiers you won’t want to miss on Horseplayers.com. First up, on September 2, the Horseplayers.com Labor Day Special Contest. Play in this $125 buy-in contest for your chance to win one of FIVE guaranteed seats to the 2025 NHC. You also won’t want to miss the last Free NHC Tour Member Only Contest of 2024 on Sunday September 15. While you must be an NHC tour member to play, this entirely free contest will give the top four finishers automatic berths to the NHC in March and the top 100 finishers will receive valuable NHC Tour points.

More information can be found on Horesplayers.com.

Equibase and the NTRA have announced an exciting new contest, the “Race to the National Horseplayers Championship (NHC),” a series of 25 free handicapping contests exclusively for subscribers of Race Lens, Equibase’s interactive past performance product.

The free weekly contests will begin on September 7 and run through February. The top two contestants from each weekly contest will qualify for the Race Lens Final 50 on February 22. The top two finishers will earn qualifying berths to the 2025 National Horseplayers Championship in Las Vegas on March 14-16, 2025. All contests will be hosted on Horseplayers.com, the official online qualifying site of the NHC and Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge.

“The NTRA has been great to work with over the years and we are excited to partner on this exciting opportunity for our Race Lens customers,” said Equibase President and Chief Operating Officer Kyle McDoniel. “We hope that people who have never tried Race Lens or currently aren’t active subscribers will take advantage of this opportunity.”

For more information on this contest series, read the full press release.

The final weekend of Beat Byk is this weekend. Steve will select races on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. There are nearly 900 entries for the Final contest that will be held on September 14 on Horseplayers.com.

Click here for the current Leaderboard standings.