Big doings on New Year's calendar

Horseplayers should consider ringing in the new year with DRF Tournaments.

DRFT will be running a special holiday schedule this Sunday and Monday, in conjunction with New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. There will also be a full slate of games on Saturday, highlighted by a $220 Round 1 contest for the Pegasus World Cup Betting Challenge, where players can buy in for $220 and one in five will advance to the Jan. 1 one-day Pegasus qualifier.

On Sunday, New Year’s Eve, the featured game is a Grade 1 qualifier for the World Championship of Handicapping, DRF’s $1 million, no-takeout, online contest. It costs $580 to play in Sunday’s qualifier and one in 10 entries will go on to the $5,000 WCH finals, to be held Feb. 3-4, exclusively online at DRF Tournaments. Players looking to win their way in to the Grade 1 qualifiers have the option of playing in Round 1 events for $95 where one in seven will go through. There are also feeders for the Round 1’s.

Also on Sunday, there will be another Round 1 for the Pegasus Challenge, as well as a one-day qualifier for the Horse Player World Series. For the HPWS game, players put up $94 and one in 19 go on to the big event, held March 8-10 at Orleans Las Vegas.

On Monday, the Pegasus Challenge qualifier takes center stage. Players have the option of buying in directly for $960 and one in 15 entries will win their $12,000 buy-ins plus an additional $500 in travel. The Pegasus World Cup Betting Challenge takes place at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 26-27. The entire $12,000 will act as a live-bankroll for the event – there is no separate entry fee.

In addition to the featured games, DRFT will be hosting match-up contests, credit-builders, and winner-take-all contests throughout the three-day weekend. It’s a great time for contest players to fund their 2018 play. Go to tournaments.drf.com for a full list of all the available games.