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Old 09-10-2019, 12:19 PM
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I would love to compete in this one, Just click on NTRA/NHC????
No sorry, too late, if you haven't been playing in the weekly contests. You would have had to beat Steve's pick or picked the same one in one of the weekly contests to earn an entry into the final contest.
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Old 09-10-2019, 12:28 PM
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Not a problem, I went into ntra/nhc and realized I was a member from years ago, I just never got into that program but I am listed as a member, lol.
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Old 09-10-2019, 12:58 PM
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Not a problem, I went into ntra/nhc and realized I was a member from years ago, I just never got into that program but I am listed as a member, lol.
You might want to look into some of the Daily Racing Form Tournaments. They have weekly free contests that are "feeders" for other contests like the Horse Player World Series, Breeder's Cup Betting Contest etc. The former is also held in Vegas. These are very competitive contests that sometimes have a couple of thousand players, but I have no doubt that you and Ruffian might do well. They are also win/place format. I think you have to become a member of Daily Racing Form. I don't think there is any charge for this. I did it years ago and there was no charge. Horseplayers.com is another provider of tournaments and they are the one doing the Beat Byk finale, but I don't think they have as many free tournaments as DRF.com

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Old 09-10-2019, 01:16 PM
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You might want to look into some of the Daily Racing Form Tournaments. They have weekly free contests that are "feeders" for other contests like the Horse Player World Series, Breeder's Cup Betting Contest etc. The former is also held in Vegas. These are very competitive contests that sometimes have a couple of thousand players, but I have no doubt that you and Ruffian might do well. They are also win/place format. I think you have to become a member of Daily Racing Form. I don't think there is any charge for this. I did it years ago and there was no charge.
Cal, I believe that DRF discontinued their tournaments a few months ago. Two that I would recommend to horseplayers who can hit price picks are (1) publichandicapper.com, who have a 4 race competition each Saturday with a variety of prizes and (2) Del Mar Race Track, who have several online contests each year.
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Old 09-10-2019, 01:27 PM
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You are right about drf. I knew they were no longer affiliated with the NHC, but didn't realize that they had quit tournaments altogether. For the daring among us, and I am not necessarily one, some of these pay for play sites do have some reasonably priced "feeders". I saw some as low as $18 on the Horseplayers site yesterday.
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Old 09-10-2019, 01:33 PM
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DRF's reasons for no longer offering their contests were rather vague. They referred to "circumstances beyond their control" but did not elaborate any further. It may have come down to something as simple as the corporate bean counters determined it wasn't profitable enough.
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Old 09-10-2019, 04:38 PM
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A couple of years ago I was in e-ponies and got into a few of them. I won a winner take all for $250. Over 600 contestants on that one. I got the write up for a few others.
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