The annual National Horseplayers Championship (NHC) is a magnet for many top horseracing handicappers and bettors that is known for attracting the tournament game’s most seasoned veterans and heavy hitters. The NHC is not all about the sharks, however, because there are tremendous lifelong handicappers out there everywhere that are still finding their way into the handicapping contest world for the first time. Many veteran players just so happen to be tournament newcomers. Those two things are not mutually exclusive.