Daily Racing Form/Ntra National Handicapping Championship

Three Win 2018 NHC Seats

Charles O’Mara, from Nutley, NJ, captured the National Handicapping Championship Qualifier on Saturday, March 25 at the Meadowlands Racetrack. The $400 no-takeout contest attracted a field of 112 pla...

‘Big M’ To Host 'Capping Contest Qualifier

Meadowlands Racing & Entertainment will provide horseplayers with one of their first opportunities to qualify for the 2018 NTRA National Horseplayers Championship with a qualifying event on Saturd...

Horseplayer Nears $1 Million In Earnings

“The money is great, but the feeling of winning and being able to share that feeling with my wife Shirley and all the people I love is so much greater than anything else.”

Inside The Richest Handicapping Tourney

February 17, 2017

"It feels like being on the floor of a stock exchange during a market crash, or if everyone in a Price Is Right studio audience each drank a pot of coffee. It's the horse racing Hunger Games, but inst...

Canadian Handicapper Wins $800,000

January 29, 2017

Ray Arsenault of Thornhill, Ont. entered the Final Table as the leader and widened his advantage throughout the afternoon to win the $800,000 first-place prize and an Eclipse Award as Horseplayer of t...

Horseplayer Clinches Qualifier In Finale

October 02, 2016

Gwyn Houston of Fallston, Maryland topped a field of 129 entries to win the Meadowlands National Handicapping Championship qualifier on Saturday, October 1 at Meadowlands Racetrack.

Three Handicapping Championship Seats

August 31, 2016

The Meadowlands is hosting a live-money National Handicapping Championship qualifying event on Saturday, October 1 that will provide three seats to the $2.5 million NHC Final in Las Vegas to be held J...

$3 Million Bonus For Betting Challenge

A $3 million National Handicapping Championship (NHC) Tour bonus – the largest prize ever offered in the handicapping contest world – will be awarded to any horseplayer who wins the Breeders’ Cup Bett...

Handicapping Brothers Win $900,000

January 30, 2016

Paul Matties of Ballston Spa, New York topped a field of 629 entries to win the $800,000 first-place prize and an Eclipse Award as Horseplayer of the Year at this weekend’s 17th annual Daily Racing Fo...

Horseplayers Vie For $2.75 Million

January 26, 2016

A record field of at least 627 entrants will compete for the largest purse in handicapping tournament history and horse racing’s official title of 'Horseplayer of the Year' at this weekend’s 17th Dail...

Handicapping Champion Wins $800,000

January 25, 2015

John O’Neil, of Huntington Station, New York, topped a field of 606 entries to win the $800,000 first-place prize and an Eclipse Award as Horseplayer of the Year at this weekend’s 16th annual Daily Ra...

Handicapping Tour Champion Crowned

January 12, 2015

Eric Moomey, a 42-year-old lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force, won one of the final brick-and-mortar National Handicapping Championship (NHC) qualifiers of the year at Monmouth Park on ...

2015 NHC Purse Raised To $2M (Est.)

It has been announced that the estimated purse for the 2015 National Handicapping Championship has been increased 25 per cent to a record $2 million.