National Handicapping Championship field is complete with final five

5 million NHC XIII finals, which offers a $1 million first-place prize and the title of 2011 Handicapper of the Year. She also earned $8,475 for her first-place finish, 15 percent of the prize pool. 40 from 15 mythical $2 win-and-place wagers on eight mandatory races and seven optional choices. The fourth- and fifth-place finishers just earned NHC seats and they were Dillon Murphy, 55, of Saratoga Springs, N. Y. , and Frank McGoey, 47, of New Orleans. The format mirrors the NHC finals, which take place Friday and Saturday. /NTRA National Handicapping Championship Presented by Sovereign Stables was completed Wednesday as the final five contestants having earned their berths in the Last Chance Qualifier at Treasure Island Hotel & Casino. Seventy percent of the pool goes to the NHC XIII purse. 80 and earned $2,825.

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Monday was the first time Belmont's total purses were higher -- $942,000 vs. $885,400 -- but more than half of Belmont's total came from the $500,000 Met Mile. Monmouth continues to show strong year-over-year gains with its sharply higher purses -- this year's $24. 2 million -- but Belmont has outhandled Monmouth each of the five days both tracks have been open. 50 apiece and a mild case of the grumpies because I would have had it if Auric Girl had been disqualified in the first leg and 10-1 runnerup Officer Flirt had been put up. --Belmont's Monday handle benefitted from a two-day pick-6 carryover of $187k that attracted $902,685 in fresh wagers, about $1200 of them mine. I was alive briefly, when I used first-leg winner Auric's Girl ($84. Even so, Belmont's handle nearly doubled Monmouth's at $14. 9 million was up 122 percent over last year's $11.

National Handicapping Championship decided by a single dollar

1. They're in the grandstand every afternoon, carrying well-penciled, well-folded copies of the Daily Racing Form, the statistics-crammed newspaper indispensable to every handicapper. They live in studio apartments or, when they're really hard up, motels.
2. That was the margin of victory as Michael Beychok became horse racing's latest millionaire by winning the 13th annual /NTRA National Handicapping Championship in the final race Saturday to claim the $1 million first-place prize and an
3. This weekend at the 13th annual Daily Racing Form/NTRA National Handicapping Championship at Treasure Island Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, lives converge in pursuit of a cool $1.5 million and horse racing's official title of "Handicapper of