Meadowlands Winter Contest [Archive] - Horse Racing Forum - PaceAdvantage.Com

Ray2000

12-22-2009, 08:23 AM

New handicapping contest starts at the Big M

Free entry $1000+ 1st prize

1/1/10--3/31/10

New rules this time... you can not be eliminated :jump:

http://www.wintersurvivalchallenge.com/

JBmadera

12-22-2009, 08:37 AM

cool! registered this morning.

jb

Canarsie

12-22-2009, 12:58 PM

Finished 25th in the last one (39th in flats) I'm in for this again. :ThmbUp:

Zippy Chippy

12-22-2009, 03:04 PM

This is awesome. Im in. Do any other tracks offer a fun contest like this? It would definietely get people interested in the track

Tom-Oh

12-27-2009, 01:47 AM

Very excited. This is going to be my first handicapping tournament EVER. Although I don't play at the big M at all, I'm gonna give this a go.

Too bad that don't offer this at Mohawk or The Meadows :p

Tom-Oh

12-29-2009, 02:00 AM

How many people usually register to participate in this contest? Approx...?

Ray2000

12-29-2009, 06:02 AM

If memory serves (and it doesn't), somewhere between 2000-3000 people in last year's Winter Contest. Almost half were eliminated by week 2. This year nobody gets dumped.

BTW
Check out USTA's Handicappers, Nash and Pandolfo for extra great information and picks.

http://handicapping.ustrotting.com/index.cfm

and Meadowlands Brower at thebigm.com

Good Luck to All who enter.

spicytomato

12-29-2009, 11:42 AM

last season made it all the way to the end with my chooo still in tact

this winter no boot out means we have to score real high
to be the best

good luck to all

i will be entering also:)

Tom-Oh

12-29-2009, 01:45 PM

Damn Ray! 2-3,000, wow! I would have expected less than 1,000 saying the real NHHC event only has about 100-200 entrants.

This will be exciting.

I think I'm also going to show up at a NHHC Qualifier @ The Meadowlands to try and win a spot.

I've been waiting to turn 18 to finally join some capping tournys, and now here comes the biggest tourny of the year right around the corner. Could it be a more perfect time?

titans1127

12-29-2009, 03:26 PM

I'm in and i'm glad you can't get eliminated. The last few contests ive done I got caught up with my job too much that I would forget to make picks.

Tom-Oh

12-29-2009, 03:47 PM

I'm in and i'm glad you can't get eliminated. The last few contests ive done I got caught up with my job too much that I would forget to make picks.
Yeah, I'm excited too! It'd be awesome to get a spot in the NHHC for free.

woodtoo

12-29-2009, 03:50 PM

I'm also in.Santa Anita has a free contest on Jan.1st,
Winvivor, you pick 1 horse a day and it must win,if you lose yer out.
Thinking it will last 7 to 10 days. After that contest begins Showviver
1 horse a day,must hit the board :)

spicytomato

12-29-2009, 05:32 PM

santa anita i held the 6 place till near end

great big boot got me and off i went

maybe this time i hang till last

track looks a bit harder this time round
good luck all:)

Tom-Oh

12-30-2009, 12:54 AM

The Santa Anita tourny sounds fun, but I can't handicap thoroughbred for nada. Good luck to you guys though!

Canarsie

12-30-2009, 01:40 PM

RaceTrackDaddy

12-30-2009, 01:41 PM

Ray
Just joined up and in my email received the verbage as follows:

snip/
However, to continue in the game, entrants have to “survive” by finishing in-the-money [first through third] with at least one of their selections each day. Failing to do so, or not making selections knocks the player out of the game. A new addition to the game is the “lucky horseshoe.” The lucky horseshoe is a “free pass” given to all Challenge participants that allows the player to survive if he does not make selections for a race card or all three of his selections fail to hit the board. If a player survives until February 9, he earns an additional lucky horseshoe.
/snip

But in their rules on the site:
"The Challenge is a non-elimination challenge"

I would have to say that we go by the rules on the site and not the rules we get via email..

rtd

Ray2000

12-30-2009, 02:57 PM

Thx RTD

I didn't get that email, when I tried to re-register "Shellgame" like it says to do...it wouldn't let me, I was still in the game from last contest.

I did get their promo email today and it says

"All players continue until the end of the game; there is no elimination."

No safe bets necessary this year...Bombs Away..

I'm tied for First Place:jump:

Here's my 1st longshot.............. TimmyT and Asgoodasioncewas

Good Luck Everybody

Tom-Oh

12-30-2009, 03:24 PM

Ray, they already announced what races for Friday we have to cap?

Ray2000

12-30-2009, 03:32 PM

No they haven't, I should not have joked that way or at least said I hope the 4th Race is the 1st contest race.:blush:

It often is...

Tom-Oh

12-30-2009, 03:36 PM

Haha, you had me confused for a minute :D

toetoe

12-31-2009, 02:49 PM

Races (2), (7) and (10).

In leg 2, Lavec Dream , baby. :jump: .

Tom-Oh

12-31-2009, 04:51 PM

Just did all my picks for tomorrow night.

Good luck to all playing.

Ray2000

01-01-2010, 08:14 AM

Well, here we go......"shellgame" entries...

Contest Races
The BigM R2.........:1: Little Mermaid N 8/1
The BigM R7.........:8: Beach Nut Brand 9/2
The BigM R10.......:6: Gro 6/1

My other Longshot plays, Win and KeyBox Exactas

The BigM R4.........5 w/4,1 ...Asgoodasioncewas-15/1
The BigM R9.........3 w/2,6 ...Sam's Shuffle-12/1

Good Luck to all and HNY

Tom-Oh

01-01-2010, 07:01 PM

Here we go... Mine are similar to Ray's...

Contest Races
The BigM R2......... :1: Little Mermaid N 8/1
The BigM R7......... :8: Beach Nut Brand 9/2
The BigM R10....... :4: Native Bride 3/1

Tom-Oh

01-01-2010, 08:14 PM

Long shot in the first! 10-1! 170 contestants had it! Damn. Atleast we hit the place/show Ray.

Ray2000

01-01-2010, 08:39 PM

Tom,

3600 contest players, it's going to be a long haul....:)

Tom-Oh

01-01-2010, 08:43 PM

Tom,

3600 contest players, it's going to be a long haul....:)
And it's a very long contest... 15 races a week for 3 months, woo!

Hopefully we catch a nice price with this 8 in the second leg, I think he has a good shot to win it.

Rutgers

01-01-2010, 08:56 PM

Tom,

3600 contest players, it's going to be a long haul....:)

And after tonight, there are 186 contest races.

A long haul indeed.

BTW, I know very little about harness racing but I am in the contest anyway, so you only have to worry about 3,599 contest players. :D

I see Tom-Oh beat me to the punch. I have the finger dexterity of a fish.

toetoe

01-01-2010, 09:12 PM

Even money that she will break tonight. She already broke in the warmup, and when the Minister o' Meth urges her ... wham, she'll break. :( .

Tom-Oh

01-01-2010, 09:24 PM

That 8 was a real pooper tonight... very unexpected I thought...

Ray2000

01-01-2010, 10:28 PM

Contest picks were poor, but the other longshots made my day..

The BigM R2.........1 Little Mermaid N 8/1 ........placed
The BigM R7.........8 Beach Nut Brand 9/2...off the board, beat nobody
The BigM R10........6 Gro 6/1...............off the board

The BigM R4.........1035 no ............showed $4.00
The BigM R9.........365 Winner $31.80 ...Exacta $185.00

LottaKash

01-02-2010, 12:26 AM

An "almost" good nite for the contest....Had 2-2d's and a cheap $4.00 winner....

And, I didn't have to use my "shoe" ..... haha...get it ?

best,

Tom-Oh

01-02-2010, 02:44 PM

Can everybody post there Contest Alias/Name or Email? They have a feature where you can add friends and see there daily picks...

My name is Tom-Oh on there, email is tomoh@rocketmail.com

LottaKash

01-02-2010, 06:20 PM

Can everybody post there Contest Alias/Name or Email? They have a feature where you can add friends and see there daily picks...

My name is Tom-Oh on there, email is tomoh@rocketmail.com

Tom, just look for "lottakash" as a friend....I'll put you in my friends list, OK ?

best,

fmolf

01-02-2010, 06:43 PM

My name is the same fmolf

Tom-Oh

01-02-2010, 10:36 PM

Bad night for me... Only made $8.60 off a place/show in the 10th.

My horse in race 9, :4: O'ROURKE THREE was scratched and I got placed with :9: WESLEY SNIP who ran out of the money...

And my horse in race 7 ran out of the money aswell...

Bad night...

Hope you guys did good.

SchagFactorToWin

01-02-2010, 10:44 PM

I'm playing under my stage name, too: SchagFactorToWin

jimnancy

01-03-2010, 11:39 AM

I'm in with the same name... jimnancy

Tom-Oh

01-03-2010, 02:55 PM

How many contest days are there per week? Is it all 5 days The Big M races? Or is it select days only?

toetoe

01-03-2010, 04:02 PM

Bad night for me...

My horse in race 9, :4: O'ROURKE THREE was scratched and I got placed with :9: WESLEY SNIP who ran out of the money...

Same here.

Big M screen name: picocentral.

Canarsie

01-03-2010, 11:24 PM

Mine is tautog

nijinski

01-03-2010, 11:32 PM

So if you were not around Jan 1st or 2nd , can you start with the next
day of racing ?

Tom-Oh

01-03-2010, 11:40 PM

So if you were not around Jan 1st or 2nd , can you start with the next
day of racing ?

I don't think so... it's advertised on www.thebigm.com to register BY Jan. 1

nijinski

01-04-2010, 12:07 AM

Thanks for the response. I registered before the 1st , but was not back in time for the first two races.

Ray2000

01-05-2010, 02:16 PM

Is this a contest for handicappers or fortune tellers?

3 Contest Races.... 24 ... 4 yr olds non winner of 2 life:p

Wednesday's plays...

R5 #6 Moody's Boy Joel
R6 #3 Pow
R10 #1 Custom Tag

Wait for Thursday...

LottaKash

01-05-2010, 02:41 PM

Yeah Ray, I agree....What "Junk" races are being offered....haha....Hard to take most of these races seriously....They are mostly races that I would "never" play...

best,

Tom-Oh

01-05-2010, 04:12 PM

These races are terrible for a contest... They're all up in the air races... Even the ones with bigtime ML favorites look like they can be upsetted by 10-1's or worse....

fmolf

01-05-2010, 04:34 PM

Being a novice i just got back from the library,and the only harness book they had was Harnessing Winners by Dave Brower has anyone read this book and is it a good read.I know he is the guy at the meadowlands.Correct.I hope to learn,is this book good for a novice?

fmolf

01-05-2010, 04:38 PM

melman

01-05-2010, 05:24 PM

fmolf----I think Dave Brower book is good reading for newcomers to s-breds. Worth the price IMO. Also you can read Bob Pandolfo handiccapping archives at ustrotting.com. Bob Pandolfo "Pandy" a long time pro at harness and does a nice job. Best of all fmolf read "Markgoldie" posts here at this site. That guy knows his s-breds and expresses himself very well. You CANNOT go wrong reading his informative posts.

Tom-Oh

01-05-2010, 06:46 PM

Agree with melman on the "markgoldie" comment.

Also, I have some long shot picks for tomorrow night selected... I'll post my picks at 6:30 tomorrow night.

fmolf

01-05-2010, 11:27 PM

Agree with melman on the "markgoldie" comment.

Also, I have some long shot picks for tomorrow night selected... I'll post my picks at 6:30 tomorrow night.
I have been reading hisposts him and i have a repoire on the t bred side.....i have been following and wagering on t breds for over 35 yrs.I used to go to roosevelt raceway as a boy with my grandpa but i was too young to bet.I see now what you mean tom about these races wed night.Might as well put the numbers in a hat and pick one out for each race.
some of marks posts are a little bit too advanced for me at this moment but i am beginning to get the basic idea behind trips ...one over ...parked out....racing with cover etc...etc...What does "on the rim mean"?

harness2008

01-07-2010, 04:25 PM

Caught a nice one with Scotch and Caviar getting up on the inside last night, before that I couldn't pick my nose. Contest name is xrandy225.

fmolf

01-07-2010, 06:14 PM

Caught a nice one with Scotch and Caviar getting up on the inside last night, before that I couldn't pick my nose. Contest name is xrandy225.
I'll friend you i go by the name fmolf...I had the same horse and the 4 in the second leg.