The Grade One Gamble will be held on Sunday, April 21, 2013 at Keeneland. This $3,000 buy-in tournament offers five spots to the 2014 National Handicapping Championship, and $40,000 in prize money. You can only enter in the following manner: call or e-mail at 11:00 AM EST on Tuesday, March 5, 2013. The phone number is 859-288-4261 and the e-mail address is jgoodman@keeneland.com. We will not accept any phone calls or e-mails prior to 11:00 AM EST. Phone calls are preferred, and spots will be awarded in the order the calls and e-mails are received in my office.
We are accepting 41 open entries for this contest, which is co-sponsored by TVG. TVG will provide 14 entrants, for a total of 55 in the tournament. We will award NHC spots to the top five qualifiers who have not already qualified the maximum number of times for the NHC. Please see the rules below.
Our last big tournament in the fall sold out in three minutes, and we expect equally as high a demand. It is vitally important that you call or e-mail at 11:00 AM on March 5.
Results
1 (+6) 3906 13,524.30
2 (+22) 3911 7,353.00
3 (+1) 3912 4,689.80
4 (-3) 3949 4,503.00
5 (+1) 3941 3,353.00
6 (+3) 3938 3,072.45
7 (-5) 3930 2,962.60
8 3934 2,607.50
9 (-4) 3940 2,491.15
10 3923 1,929.55
11 (+10) 3953 1,920.00
12 (-9) 3952 1,640.00
13 (+12) 3916 1,522.60
14 (+24) 3927 1,474.90
15 (+24) 3920 1,315.05
16 (+1) 3954 1,285.20
17 (+10) 3929 1,115.70
18 (+17) 3947 1,013.20
19 (-1) 3918 1,008.00
20 (-5) 3932 995.00
21 (+8) 3951 852.70
22 (-2) 3917 800.50
23 (+8) 3926 650.45
24 (+9) 3950 639.65
25 (+9) 3942 547.90
26 (+6) 3933 538.00
27 (+9) 3913 530.00
28 (-5) 3910 489.10
29 (+1) 3948 377.00
30 (-19) 3909 293.50
31 (-9) 3945 88.00
32 (-4) 3919 59.90
33 (+13) 3937 7.10
34 (+15) 3944 1.50
35 (+12) 3901 1.50
36 (-24) 3902 0.80
37 (+6) 3903 0.80
38 (-25) 3914 0.60
39 (-2) 3925 0.60
40 (-14) 3936 0.45
41 (+9) 3921 0.20
42 (-28) 3943 0.00
42 (+9) 3922 0.00
42 (+2) 3924 0.00
42 (-2) 3939 0.00
42 (+9) 3946 0.00
42 (+9) 3931 0.00
42 (+6) 3908 0.00
42 (+3) 3907 0.00
42 (-26) 3905 0.00
42 (-1) 3904 0.00
42 3935 0.00
42 (+9) 3915 0.00
42 (-23) 3928 0.00
42 (+9) 3955 0.00