Sunday was a busy day on DRF Tournaments, with players winning two seats to the upcoming World Horseplayers’ Tour/Santa Anita event, two seats to Monmouth’s Pick Your Prize, and one seat to the Belmont Stakes Challenge.Steven Meier was the biggest winner, netting a $10,000 Belmont seat plus $500 in travel money. He had three collections overall, starting with $18.40 in place points from Flatexcel in Belmont’s seventh. He added $25.30 from Lady Alexandra in Belmont’s eighth, and vaulted to the top of the standings after the sixth of the 10 contest races with near-capper King Cause ($62.40) in Santa Anita’s seventh. He whiffed in the last four races but still held off the late charge of Brent Johnson in a sold-out event.George Nixon was best in the Monmouth qualifier, with four collections for a total of $114.80. Hotty Toddy ($11.60) got him on the board in the second contest race and then he hot three in a row with Tropicat ($26.40), Victory Element ($13.60), and Flat Bill ($63.20) to secure his spot. The latter win came in Belmont’s ninth and changed the complexion of many games, as is typical when a big price comes in toward the end of a live contest.John Gaspar was another beneficiary of Flat Bill. He had just two other hits to get to his qualifying total of $91.30 – Lady Alexandra and $2.80 in place points back from Coniah in Santa Anita’s eighth. When contest players talk about playing favorites for “the power of $4” this is what they mean. Even small collections can make a big difference. For Gaspar, that $2.80 was the difference between a $2,500 and zero because it put him ahead of his nearest pursuer, Richard Roomey, who finished an unlucky third with $89.60. Because the event filled to its capacity of 46, there were was no site credit/breakage awarded.The best deal of the spring for contest players is the World Horseplayers’ Tour/Santa Anita tournament coming up on Preakness weekend. All the purse money is added thus negating the takeout. The event also will be filmed for a television pilot with a special set of made-for-TV rules. On Sunday, Brendan Fay and Russ Axelrod won their $5,000 bankrolls.Fay won by a lot. He totaled $127.50 on four collections, including Lady Alexandra, Tropicat, and Flat Bill. The $12.60 he got back in the penultimate race from Eagle Screams at Santa Anita was just him running up the score. Russ Axelrod finished with $93.40, just getting up over Hudson Davis because he picked the winner of the last race, Creaky Cricket ($15.20). Davis receives $1,100 in site credit for third, as does Edward Enborg for fourth. Michael Martin gets back $500. These are breakage credits because there were 31 entries, five short of the number needed to award a third seat.On Saturday, Gregg Kingma was the big winner, netting a seat to the 2019 World Championship of Handicapping. The contest was an overlay – it went with eight entries at $580 meaning that players put in $4,640 and $5,000 (the cost of the WCH seat) was returned. Kingma controlled two of the eight entries in the contest and played them very differently. On the winning entry, he collected in six of the 10 races, with his longest price being Queen Blossom ($30.20) in Santa Anita’s fourth. His second entry finished sixth with just $11.60. This contest utilized the live format, where picks can be changed along the way, as opposed to an all-in format, where picks are locked. “In an all-in tournament, it’s like you have handcuffs on,” explained Kingma, a 56-year old mortgage banker and lifelong Seattle resident. “In any competition, it’s more exciting to be able to adjust to circumstances and change what you’re doing – whether you’re ahead or behind you might want to change your picks.”Contest action returns to DRFT on Wednesday with a full slate of feeders, credit builders, matchups, and winner-take-alls. Players should be advised that DRFT will not be using races from Churchill Downs this week, including Friday and Saturday.For a list of all the upcoming action, go to tournaments.drf.com.