Topping a field of more than 5,500 of the nation’s best horseplayers over a 12-month period, Brett Wiener of Clearwater, Fla., captured the 2024 National Horseplayers Championship (NHC) Tour. Wiener earned $75,000 for winning the Tour and is eligible for a $5 million bonus if he captures the 26th NTRA National Horseplayers Championship (NHC) March 14-16 at Horseshoe Las Vegas.
Wiener, who kicked off 2024 by being inducted into the NHC Hall of Fame, won online and ontrack contests during the 2024 Tour season while amassing 25,160 Tour points.
“I’ve been close to winning it (the NHC Tour) about five times before,” said Wiener, a longtime horseplayer and 16-year veteran of the NHC Tour.
Wiener arrived on the handicapping contest scene in 2009 when he won the first NHC online qualifier he entered. Since then, he’s won or placed in major contests held at racetracks from coast-to-coast and in Canada: They include Aqueduct, Arlington Park, Belmont Park, Del Mar, Fair Grounds, Gulfstream Park, Keeneland, Kentucky Downs, Laurel Park, Monmouth Park, Santa Anita Park, Saratoga, Tampa Bay Downs, Turfway Park, and Woodbine, among others.
Wiener, who spends part of his year in Las Vegas, Nev., also participates in the NHC Mentor program, which connects Tour members to many of the most formidable horseplayers who impart their wisdom on handicapping and contest play. He and his wife, Sarah, also a highly accomplished contest player, who finished the 2024 Tour in sixth place, have been annual mainstays at the NHC.
2023 – Kevin Costello
2022 – Jay Johns
2021 – Kevin Costello
2020 – Sally Goodall
2019 – David Snyder
2018 – David Gutfreund
2017 – Mike Ferrozzo
2016 – Cheryl McIntyre
2015 – Jonathon Kinchen
2014 – Eric Moomey
2013 – Brent Sumja
2012 – Mark Streiff
2011 – Paul Shurman
2010 – Tom Noone
2009 – Bryan Wagner
