Annual Road to Kentucky Handicapping Contest begins Saturday
Canterbury Park’s Road to Kentucky Handicapping Contest, which has been held annually for more than 25 years, begins Saturday and continues each Saturday through Kentucky Derby Day, May 3. The contest is free to enter and each week offers prize money. In each contest the five players with the highest scores receive prize money. To receive maximum prize payouts, players must wager at least $30 using their MVP Rewards player card. Scores accumulate over the 16 weeks with more prize money paid to the 30 with the best totals.
Each week the contest features all races from one racetrack and occasionally addition Derby Prep races are offered. Entrants select one horse is each contest race using the official program number and receive points based on mutuel payouts of the selections. For example, this Saturday the featured track is Fair Grounds with its 12-race program. There are no additional races. The Lecomte, race 12, is a Derby prep race and awards double points as do all Derby preps each week. January 25 is Oaklawn with the Southwest being a double-point race. Feb. 1 features Gulfstream that has the double-point Holy Bull that day and also added are two other preps: the Robert Lewis from Santa Anita and the Withers from Aqueduct. The complete schedule is here.
The weekly top three also receive an entry to the Grand Prize contest on May 31 that award two free-roll entries to the 29th Dog Days of Summer Handicapping Contest.
All the rules, the schedule and the weekly scores are on the R2K webpage.
Entry deadline is first post of the featured track which Saturday is noon central. Entry cards are available each Saturday at the clubhouse level information center. For those that cannot make it to Minnesota’s premier racebook on the day of the contest, advance entry is offered each Friday during Racebook operating hours.
Bet On Yourself in R2K Contest
In conjunction with the Road to Kentucky Contest is the $10 entry fee Bet on Yourself Contest. Contestants consist of those that A) pay the $10 entry fee and B) compete in the Road to Kentucky Contest that day. Those players that do both make up the entrants competing to win all of that day’s entry fees. The player with the highest Road to Kentucky score wins the pool.
Handicapper of the Year Contest underway
Michael Tindall scored the first Handicapper of the Year point by winning the first in a series of Spring Tune Up Super Satellite Contests. Points toward the $2,000 Handicapper of the Year prize and title are awarded in weekly contests, both pay to enter and those that are free, like Road to Kentucky. Each week R2K offer three points to the winner, two to second and one to third. Find the info here.
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