The National Horseplayers Championship (NHC) is the richest and most prestigious annual handicapping tournament of all. It is the culmination of the NHC Tour, a year-long series of NTRA-sanctioned contests and tournaments held across the United States and Canada at racetracks, race books, off-track betting locations, and horse racing and handicapping websites and ADWs that each send their top finishers to the national finals in Las Vegas where they compete for a purse in excess of $3 million.

Prep season for the 151st Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve is well underway, and there’ll be little letup over the next three-plus months until the first leg of the Triple Crown is run May 3 at Churchill Downs.