Dylan Donnelly Wins Monmouth Park’s Pick Your Prize Handicapping Contest Over Record Field Of 299 Entrants by Tom Luicci/Monmouth Park|06.08.2023|2:06pm Monmouth Park's $2,000 Pick Your Prize Handicapping Challenge on Saturday, June 3, played host to a record 299 entries with Dylan Donnelly finishing ahead of all others. Playing on Xpressbet, Donnelly turned his starting $1,000 bankroll into $8,960 with the help of two large daily doubles – a winning $400 bet starting in Race 8 and a winning $800 play starting in Race 11. By finishing first, Donnelly automatically received a $15,390 cash prize. As part of Pick Your Prize's unique and unparalleled prize structure, Donnelly also received two prize selections from a prize board that included 25 seats to the National Horseplayers Championship, eight seats to the Breeders' Cup Betting Challenge and seven cash prizes ranging from $9,800 to $4,500. With his two selections, Donnelly picked a BCBC seat and $9,800. All told, Donnelly walked away with his $8,960 bankroll, $25,190 in cash prizes, and a spot in the BCBC. George Bosch, playing on-site at Monmouth, finished Saturday's contest with a bankroll of $8,310. The second-place finish earned him an automatic $8,550 plus two prize selections – used on a BCBC seat and “NHC+$6,000.” In total, the Top 7 finishers received two prize board selections. Finishers 8 through 33 received one pick. All Pick Your Prize players had to bet a minimum of five Monmouth Park races. The minimum bet for those races was $200. Pools available for contest play were win, place, show, exacta and daily double. Contest players participated on-site or online through Xpressbet, TVG and HPI. Monmouth Park's next live money handicapping contest is the $1,000 Haskell Challenge on Saturday, July 22. Entries can only be played online through Xpressbet, TVG/4NJBETS or HPI. For those looking for more immediate contest action, Monmouth Park has partnered with Horsetourneys.com for a $1 (yes, $1) online handicapping for the Saturday, June 17, Haskell Preview Day card. The Top 5 finishers in that Horsetourneys contest will receive a seat in the $1,000 Haskell Challenge. For information on future Monmouth Park contests, please contact Brian Skirka at [email protected]. $2,000 Pick Your Prize Official Contest Results & Prizes Name Bankroll Prize(s) Dylan Donnelly $8,960 $15,390, BCBC, $9,800 George Bosch $8,310 $8,550, BCBC, NHC+$6,000 Dennis Hubbard $7,464.50 $5,130, BCBC, NHC+$4,000 Steven Wells $6,600 $3,420, BCBC, NHC+$3,000 William Meisel $6,270 $1,710, $8,500, NHC+$2,000 Rick Broth $6,002.50 BCBC, NHC Chris Larmey $5,480 BCBC, NHC Chris Littlemore $5,240.76 BCBC Dan Edwards $5,130 NHC Frank Mustari $4,580 BCBC Richard Nilsen $4,386.40 $8,000 Seth Morris $4,280 $7,000 Ken Jordan $4,136 NHC Kyle Roscoe $4,080 $6,500 Terrence Severson $4,030 NHC Bill Rendino $4,000 $5,500 Dennis Tiernan $3,944 $4,500 Zachary Agamenoni $3,700.50 NHC James Giamundo $3,478 NHC Bradley Anderson $3,400 NHC Mark Streiff $3,298 NHC Joe Scanio $3,173 NHC John Kostin $3,140 NHC Chris Ahl $3,007.80 NHC Mike Steindler $2,940.50 NHC Jerry McClenin $2,854 NHC Paul Shurman $2,820 NHC Francis Drew $2,813 NHC Gary Johnson $2,770 NHC Braden Selvig $2,755 NHC Lorne Weiss $2,741.82 NHC Robert Losier $2,530 NHC Ken Seeman $2,500 NHC