NHC Overview: Record $2.9 Million in Cash and Awards at NHC 18
A record field of 654 total entries will compete for the largest purse in handicapping tournament history – $2,900,600 in cash and awards – and horse racing’s official title of “Horseplayer of the Year” [...]
NHC Thursday Notes
Today’s Last Chance/First Chance Contest represents the final opportunity for players to qualify or add a second entry for this weekend’s 18th Daily Racing Form/NTRA NHC Presented by Racetrack Television Network and Treasure Island Las [...]
Cashing On a Dream: Barry Northern Q&A with Jennie Rees (Part 2)
Rookie qualifier remembers tough beats better than wager that got him to handicapping’s big show Barry Northern, 60, is a lifelong racing fan who has never lived more than a few miles from Churchill [...]
Q&A: Defending NHC Winner Paul Matties
Paul Matties Jr., a professional gambler and horse owner from Ballston Spa, N.Y., captured last year’s $2.77 million Daily Racing Form/NTRA National Handicapping Championship. The 47-year-old married father of three is one of nine former [...]
DRF Back as NHC Title Sponsor
Daily Racing Form has been a title sponsor of the National Handicapping Championship (NHC) since its inception in 2000, when the first prize was $100,000. Seventeen years later, the world’s richest and most [...]
NHC Mandatory Races – Friday, Jan. 27
NHC 18 Mandatory Races – Friday, January 27 Track and Race #, Post time (PT) Aqueduct 4, 10:50 a.m. Tampa Bay 6, 12:26 p.m. Fair Grounds 4, 12:46 p.m. Oaklawn 5, 1:19 p.m. Gulfstream 9, 1:32 [...]