Jenny Kellner
NYRA/Belmont Park

ELMONT, N.Y. – With $80,000 in prize money and a trip to the Daily Racing Form/National Thoroughbred Racing Association National Handicapping Championship at stake, the 2012 Belmont Summer Handicapping Challenge is now accepting applicants for the June 23-24 tournament at Belmont Park.

The top three finishers in the tournament will represent BelmontPark in the January 2013 national tournament in Las Vegas, where the top handicapper will receive $750,000 and NTRA Handicapper of the Year honors…

Dan Silver
NYRA

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The New York Racing Association Inc. (NYRA) has announced a partnership with the Woodbine Entertainment Group to include the live broadcast of Woodbine’s races on The NYRA Network.

NYRA and Woodbine have coordinated staggered post times and starting on April 28, after the conclusion of the Keeneland meet, Woodbine races will be shown during the race day on The NYRA Network, channel 71 on Time Warner’s basic cable system in New York…

Brian Skirka
Gulfstream Park

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Arlene Conte of Oceanside, N.Y. turned her $200 bankroll into $457.50 to capture Gulfstream Park’s $400 Handicapping Challenge contested on March 17-18. With the win, Conte earned a seat in the DRF/NTRA National Handicapping Championship (NHC) in 2013.

In 2009, Conte’s husband John captured the NHC and took home the $500,000 first prize.

Arlene Conte bested 125 other players to take Gulfstream’s contest and took home a check for $10,080.  Maria…

APRIL 7, MAY 6 AND JUNE 10

NTRA release

The National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) announced today that Treasure Island Las Vegas, the host site for the Daily Racing Form/NTRA National Handicapping Championship (NHC) will offer three separate NHC qualifying tournaments on Saturday, April 7, Sunday May 6 and Sunday June 10. Each “Wager to Win” competition will carry a $300 entry fee and offer three spots to next January’s NHC 14. All entry fees in each tourney will be…

NYRA release

Organizations from every corner of the Thoroughbred industry have come together to support a new program created by the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation to develop second careers for horses racing at New York Racing Association tracks. The program, forged from a $225,000 start-up grant from the Harriet E. Pfleger Foundation, will provide rehabilitation and retraining for as many as 100 horses a year. NYRA, the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association and The Jockey Club, as well as the New…

Breeders’ Cup release

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Breeders’ Cup today unveiled the official event logo for the 29th running of the Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Santa Anita Park, in Arcadia, Calif., on November 2-3, 2012. The 2012 World Championships will mark the sixth time that Santa Anita will host the event, returning for the first time since back-to-back years in 2008 and 2009. The 2011 World Championships were held at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.

The 2012 event logo…

NTRA release

Treasure Island Las Vegas, host of the $1.6 million (estimated) Daily Racing Form/NTRA National Handicapping Championship (NHC) on Friday and Saturday, Jan. 27-28, will host a special qualifying contest offering two berths to the January 2013 NHC on Sunday, Jan. 29.

The one-day “Wager to Win” contest will carry an entry fee of $200 and have a limit of one entry per person with a maximum field size of 300. All contest entry fees will be returned to…

NTRA release

The exciting victory by Drosselmeyer and Mike Smith over Game on Dude and Chantal Sutherland in the Breeders’ Cup Classic has been voted the 2011 National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) Moment of the Year. Drosselmeyer’s victory also represented the second “Classic” win in as many days for trainer Bill Mott, who had saddled Royal Delta to win the previous day’s Breeders’ Cup Ladies Classic. The connections of Drosselmeyer will be honored at the Eclipse Award ceremony Monday, January…

Two-Year Agreement Will Bring Event to Gulfstream Park in 2013

NTRA release

The National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) announced Thursday that The Stronach Group (SG) has agreed to join Daily Racing Form and Breeders’ Cup as a presenting sponsor of the Eclipse Awards.

The 41st annual Eclipse Awards ceremony will be held Monday, Jan. 16, at the Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, in Beverly Hills, Calif.

As part of the agreement, which is effective immediately and carries a duration…

NTRA release

Paul Shurman, a 57-year-old attorney from Dix Hills, N.Y., rode the strength of three wins and two second-place finishes to capture the 2011 crown as Daily Racing Form NHC Tour Champion and a $75,000 first-place prize. Should Shurman capture the title later this month at the Jan. 27-28 Daily Racing Form/NTRA National Handicapping Championship (NHC) finals at Treasure Island Las Vegas, he will receive a $2 million bonus in addition to that event’s estimated first prize of $1,000,000.…