Tote Ten To Follow is back for the Jumps The eagerly awaited Tote Ten To Follow competition for the Jumps is now open for registration. The popular competition has a guaranteed minimum prize size of £100,000. Last season’s winner walked away with £104,832. Entries cost just £5 or €5.50 for Irish Customers. To register in this year’s competition click here There is also a Free to play version of the Tote Ten To Follow Jumps competition which is limited to one entry per person. Key Information Back for another season, Tote Ten to Follow Jumps is the ultimate season long fantasy game for racing fans to play. For just £5, or €5.50 for Irish customers, racing fans can assemble a stable of ten star horses to be in with a chance of winning a share of the prize fund. Minimum guaranteed pool size of£100,000Last season’s winner walked away with £104,832 The competition opens for entries at 11am on Monday 25th October 2021. All stables must be registered by 11am on Saturday 13th November 2021. Selections within stables may be changed freely until the deadline. Ten to Follow points scoring starts at 11.01am on Saturday 13th November 2021 and finishes at 7pm on Saturday 9th April. Competition starts on Paddy Power Gold Cup day at Cheltenham and ends on Grand National day at Aintree. There is a seven-day transfer window at the start of March ahead of the Cheltenham Festival, where all stables are allowed to make up to two substitutions. WHAT’S NEW for the 2021/22 jumps competition? The Angler’s Algo: Smart pick auto-fill algorithm intelligently designed to select the best horses for your stable. Whether you just want the algo to pick 1, 2, or up to all 10 horses, it will pick a balanced stable of horses optimised to score the most points across the season. Using historical data and Ten to Follow performance, the algorithm has been fine-tuned to select the optimum balance for a stable. This includes targeting bonus races, selecting “bankers” aimed at ensuring the points rack up throughout the season, and picking wildcard horses that can make the all-important difference. More information on horses to help your selection: See how popular each horse is: Horse list can be sorted by “percentage picked” highlighting the percentage of stables with that horse in. See how each horse performed last season: Horse list can be sorted by ‘most points last year’. As usual see the Racing Post verdict on each horse, sort by bonus races, expected distance, RPR, and race types to get all the info you need to pick the perfect ten horses. WHY IS TEN TO FOLLOW a great game to play? Ten to Follow is the ultimate fantasy racing game for any racing fan, providing excitement throughout the Jumps season and gives you a chance to win big prizes from a small stake. you can pick from the best of the current crop of National Hunt runners, giving you an interest across all the Grade 1s and major races. The paid entry prize pool is determined by the total entries and pays prizes down to 500th place. Players can enter as many stables as they like, and with five monthly prizes up for grabs it can be wise to form specialist lists targeting big meetings in specific months. There is a free to play competition (maximum one entry per person) where people can play for racing prizes. HOW DO HORSES SCORE POINTS? Players score points when one of their horses wins or places. The way in which those points are calculated is determined by the quality of the race and the Tote dividend of the horse. Grade 1 win - 25 points Grade 2 win - 20 points Grade 3 win - 15 points Listed win - 12 points On top of that horses will receive the equivalent points returned to a £1 Win and Place bet on the Tote. E.G. - £1 win at 5.50 + £1 place at 1.20 = 6.70 points awarded. For races run in UK and Ireland the returns will be based on the standard Tote dividend. For races run overseas, the local tote return will be used (as published in the Racing Post). There are 21 bonus races which will return an additional 25 points to the winner and 12 points to the runner up. WHAT ARE THE BONUS RACES? Betfair Chase Ladbrokes Trophy (Hennessy) Tingle Creek King George VI Welsh National Savills Chase (Leopardstown) Irish Champion Hurdle Irish Gold Cup Betfair Hurdle (Newbury) Arkle Chase Champion Hurdle Queen Mother Champion Chase Festival Chase (former RSA Chase) Stayers Hurdle Ryanair Chase Cheltenham Gold Cup Betfred Bowl Aintree Hurdle Melling Chase Liverpool Stayers Hurdle Aintree Grand National TRANSFER WINDOW The transfer window will take place over seven days at the start of March leading up to the 2022 Cheltenham festival. This could be to replace an injured horse or one who has underperformed in the months previous, or might be a tactical swap for one who appears to have done all their winning for the season. Either way it could be a game changer when it comes to the final standings, with a further seven bonus races coming after the window shuts. Prior to this window the Tote will add a number of horses to the list. These will be emerging stars who weren’t in the original list, providing more options for players to improve their stables.
