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01-17-2008, 02:48 PM
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DRF/NHC Contest Players 'Tour'
http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/nat...dicappers.aspx
On Thursday, the National Thoroughbred Racing Association and Daily Racing Form (DRF) announced the creation of the tour, a year-long bonus series offering additional prize money and qualifying berths to the DRF/NTRA National Handicapping Championship. The NHC Tour will be open to officially registered contestants and will be based on performances at NHC qualifying events throughout the year.
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01-17-2008, 11:43 PM
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I would urge all DTers to check this out and get involved. If you have never played in a tournament, now there is a good reason to give it a shot. If you have been playing, you now have at least 100,000 reasons to try and play more.
I co-authored an article which appeared last fall in the Horseplayer magazine which proposed this idea. Following that, I was also part of the focus group with the NTRA which made brought this idea to fruition. In a sport where we regularly say that no one listens to horse players and no one cares about the bettor, this is a huge step forward. Paul
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01-17-2008, 11:47 PM
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Where is the schedule of events for this tour?
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01-17-2008, 11:51 PM
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Is it like the And1 mix tape tour for horseplayers? Will they have a bus and everybody gets cool nicknames?
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01-17-2008, 11:57 PM
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It would seem to be so much easier - and the field sizes would be much larger - if they had all of these events throughout the tour online.
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01-18-2008, 12:02 AM
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01-18-2008, 12:04 AM
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01-18-2008, 01:26 AM
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Hummm .... Horseplayers After Dark, instead of Poker After Dark ... I see books, t-shirt marketing, groupies, DVD sales, fan clubs ....
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01-18-2008, 03:40 AM
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It really depends on how many of these they plan on having. For this to be successful and gather a following, they probably can only have 8-10 TOUR events in the year. Looking forward to reading about it and seeing what they are planning
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01-18-2008, 05:13 AM
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01-18-2008, 07:30 AM
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This tour will use the already extisting tournament schedule which means that there will be about 50 lives contests and another 20 on-line events. There will be plenty of opportunity for anyone to get involved. Look at the lineup from this year (http://www.drf.com/nhc/2007/qualifiers.html) to get a sense of just how many tournaments there are.
Paul
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01-18-2008, 07:45 AM
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