Engelhard, Ferrozzo, Littlemore and Seeman Voted into NHC Hall of Fame

The National Thoroughbred Racing Association announced Feb. 27 that Kevin Engelhard, Mike Ferrozzo, Chris Littlemore and Ken Seeman were voted by their peers into the NTRA National Horseplayers Championship Hall of Fame. The four represent the 12th class of inductees and will be formally recognized at the NHC Champions Dinner on Sunday, March 15, following the conclusion of the 27th NTRA National Horseplayers Championship at Horseshoe Las Vegas.

The Hall of Fame class was selected by a ballot sent to nearly 1,000 NHC Tour members who have been Tour members for at least 10 years and who have qualified at least once for the NHC. TDN reported the quartet has 62 total NHC appearances between them; combining that aggregate with the three individually reported appearance counts implies an inferred 16 appearances for Ken Seeman, though that figure is not explicitly stated in the NTRA excerpts.

Kevin Engelhard brings a long string of NHC credentials to the Hall of Fame. Listed as a Tour member since 2008 and credited with 17 NHC appearances, Engelhard has recorded top 40 finishes on the NHC Tour every year since 2014 and top 10 finishes in 2016, 2020, 2023 and 2024. HRN and the NTRA note his top tournament finishes include events at Horseplayers.com, Aqueduct, Delaware Park, Laurel, Monmouth Park and Woodbine, and that he participates in the NHC Mentor program. “I am truly grateful to be elected to the NTRA Hall of Fame. I want to thank the association for this honor and look forward to continuing my involvement in the NHC and the Thoroughbred racing community,” Engelhard said.

Mike Ferrozzo is credited with 18 NHC appearances and with winning the 2017 NHC Tour; the NTRA and HRN records show he made the NHC final table in 2015. HRN lists Ferrozzo’s tournament victories at Canterbury Park, Hawthorne, Belmont and Surfside, among others, and the release lists his hometown as Eagen, Minn. in the supplied excerpts.

Chris Littlemore, a Tour member since 2011, is listed with 11 NHC appearances and with the 2018 NHC championship. HRN reports Littlemore, from Smith Falls, Ontario, followed his 2018 title with a final-table return in 2019, finishing seventh.

Ken Seeman is named among the four inductees in the NTRA release, but the supplied excerpts do not include his hometown, Tour membership start year or an explicit individual NHC appearance count. If TDN’s combined total of 62 appearances is accepted alongside the three explicit figures for Engelhard, Ferrozzo and Littlemore, Seeman’s appearances compute to 16, a derived figure that is noted here as inferred rather than quoted from the NTRA text.

The induction highlights a peer-driven selection process that favors long-tenured contributors to NHC competition and mentorship. The class will be honored March 15 at Horseshoe Las Vegas after the 27th NHC, closing a chapter of tournament competition that this release positions alongside other Tour headlines such as Dave Nichols winning the 2025 NHC Tour. The recognition cements these four players’ roles in shaping high-stakes contest play and the mentorship pipeline within the NHC community.