When does Ten to Follow start and finish?

• The competition opens for entries at 10am on Wednesday 23rd October 2024.
• All stables must be registered by 11am on Friday 15th November 2024.
• Selections within stables may be changed freely until the deadline.
• Ten to Follow points scoring starts at 11.01am on Friday 15th November 2024 and finishes at 11.59pm on Saturday 5th April 2025.
• 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.

How does Ten to Follow work?

• Racing Post and Tote compile a list of over 500 horses, from which players will pick a stable of ten horses to follow for each stable they enter.
• Points are awarded to horses for winning and placing in their races throughout the season. The better the grade of race, the more points on offer.
• There will be 21 “Bonus” races across the season, including the Grand National on the closing day of the season.
• Each paid entry costs £5 (or €5.50 if playing in Ireland).
• The paid entry prize pool is determined by the total entries with the winner scooping 60% of the prize pool with prizes down to 10th place, plus five monthly prizes.
• This year’s edition will have a guaranteed min total prize pool of £/€100,000 with prizes paid for first 10 places.
• A 10% commission is taken by the Tote to cover costs of running the game, with the remaining net pool redistributed in prizes.
• There is a free to play competition (maximum one entry per person) where the season’s winner will receive £250 of Tote credit.

Bonus races and Scoring

• Regular Points:
  Grade 1 win - 25 points,
  Grade 2 - 20 points,
  Grade 3 (Premier Handicap) - 15 points,
  Listed - 12 points,
  Any other race - 10 points.
• Points will also be awarded from returns of a £1 each-way bet on the Tote in each race a horse runs in. Example: £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)

Bonus Races: 

• Betfair Chase (Haydock)
• Coral Gold Cup (Newbury)
• Tingle Creek Chase (Sandown)
• King George VI Chase (Kempton)
• Welsh Grand National (Chepstow),
• Savills Chase (Leopardstown)
• Irish Champion Hurdle (Leopardstown)
• Irish Gold Cup (Leopardstown)
• Betfair Hurdle (Newbury)
• Arkle Chase (Cheltenham)
• Champion Hurdle (Cheltenham)
• Queen Mother Champion Chase (Cheltenham)
• Brown Advisory Chase (formerly the RSA Chase) (Cheltenham)
• Stayers’ Hurdle (Cheltenham),
• Ryanair Chase (Cheltenham)
• Gold Cup (Cheltenham)
• Betway Bowl (Aintree)
• Aintree Hurdle (Aintree)
• Melling Chase (Aintree)
• Liverpool Stayers’ Hurdle (Aintree)
• Grand National (Aintree)
• Bonus Race Points: Additional 25 points for a win, 12 points for finishing 2nd.

Where can I register my stables?

• Ten to Follow at the Tote: www.tote.co.uk/tentofollow
• Ten to Follow at the Racing Post: www.racingpost.com/tentofollow

Key terms

£5/€5.50 per stable in the paid game. Guaranteed min. total prize pool of £/€100,000 with prizes paid for first 10 places (see full terms for details). Maximum one entry per person in the free game for Tote Credit prizes. Tote Credit cannot be withdrawn, exchanged or substituted and expires after 7 days. Entries close at 11am GMT 15^thNovember 2024. UK and ROI only. Full Terms and Conditions apply. 18+ Begambleaware.org (Dunlewey.net for IRE ads)

Entry Conditions

• This competition is only available to individuals aged 18 (eighteen) years and over who are resident in the UK and Ireland. Underage gambling is a criminal offence and is not tolerated by us. We reserve the right to request age and identity verification documentation from any customer at any time and to render void any bets with persons under the age of 18.
• In order to participate, You must be a newly registered or existing customer at www.tote.co.uk/ten-to-follow or www.tote.co.uk/ten-to-follow/racing-post (hereinafter a “Tote Customer”).
• Tote Customers may enter into a paid competition (the “Paid Competition”). Each entry into the Paid Competition will be charged at £5 (or €5.50 in Euros). There is no restriction on how many entries per customer can be made into the Paid Competition.
• Each Tote Customer is entitled to one (1) free entry towards a separate Tote Ten to Follow competition (the “Free-to-Play Competition”).
• This competition will open for entries on 23^rd October 2024. Entries must be submitted by 11am on Friday 15^th November 2024.
• You must select ten (10) horses to follow from the list of horses put together by the Racing Post. The chosen horses will be placed in Your virtual stable (a “Stable”).

Scoring

• Points shall be accumulated by the horses in Your Stable every time they win or are placed in a qualifying race run between 15^th November 2024 and 5^th April 2025 subject to the following conditions:
  • Horses score points by winning and being placed in races run under the Rules of Racing in Great Britain or Ireland. The score is based on a combination of points based on the grade of the race and the Tote dividend of your successful selection.
  • You score more points the better the grade of race, and there are bonus races (indicated below) where bonus points are scored.
  • Points are awarded as follows:
    • Grade 1 win - 25 points;
    • Grade 2 win - 20 points;
    • Grafe 3 win - 15 points;
    • Listed win - 12 points;
    • Any other race win - 10 points;
    • An additional 25 points are awarded to winners, and 12 points are awarded to the runners-up in the bonus races listed below.
  • The bonus races are:
    • Betfair Chase (Haydock)
    • Coral Gold Cup (Newbury)
    • Tingle Creek Chase (Sandown)
    • King George VI Chase (Kempton)
    • Welsh Grand National (Chepstow),
    • Savills Chase (Leopardstown)
    • Irish Champion Hurdle (Leopardstown)
    • Irish Gold Cup (Leopardstown)
    • Betfair Hurdle (Newbury)
    • Arkle Chase (Cheltenham)
    • Champion Hurdle (Cheltenham)
    • Queen Mother Champion Chase (Cheltenham)
    • Brown Advisory Chase (formerly the RSA Chase) (Cheltenham)
    • Stayers’ Hurdle (Cheltenham),
    • Ryanair Chase (Cheltenham)
    • Gold Cup (Cheltenham)
    • Betway Bowl (Aintree)
    • Aintree Hurdle (Aintree)
    • Melling Chase (Aintree)
    • Liverpool Stayers’ Hurdle (Aintree)
    • Grand National (Aintree)
• Points will also be awarded based on the returns to a £1 each-way bet on the Tote price (as published in the Racing Post) in each race a horse runs in. 
• Example: £1 win at 5.50 + £1 place at 1.20 = 6.70 points awarded.
• The period for scoring points will finish on 7pm 5^th April 2025 at which point the overall positions will be confirmed. Prizes will be paid by Monday 7^th April 2025.

Free-to-Play Competition Rules

• The highest scoring Stable at the end of the Free-to-Play Competition will win £250 in Tote credit.
• All Tote credit issued in respect of the Free-to-Play Competition will be subject to the full Tote credit terms, that are available to view at www.tote.co.uk/racing/info/tote-credit. Key terms of which are:
  • Tote credit is provided for customers to bet with and may never in any circumstances be withdrawn for cash. 
  • Although Tote Credit cannot be withdrawn, any winnings derived from bets placed with Tote Credit can be withdrawn.
  • Tote Credit will be subject to expiry within 7 (seven) days of it being credited to Your Account.
  • Tote Credit gives you all the functionality of a real money bet with all funds going directly into the relevant racing pool resulting in the full Tote dividend upon settlement being returned to you.
  • Tote Credit can only be redeemed across racing bets, as follows: Toteexacta, Totetrifecta, Toteswinger, Totejackpot, Toteplacepot, Totequadpot, Totescoop6, Totesurvivor, Totewin and Toteplace. This list may be amended from time to time.

Paid Competition Rules

• For the 2024/25 Jumps Ten To Follow game, Tote will take 10% commission on each Paid Competition entry to go towards the costs of operating the competition. All remaining money collected will be redistributed as prizes.
• The highest scoring Stable at the end of the competition will win 60% of the net prize pool (as calculated below), with additional prizes for second (2nd) to tenth (10th) place finishes .
• In addition, the highest scoring Stable in each of the calendar months of December 2024, January 2025, February 2025, and March 2025 will be awarded a prize of 3% of the total net pool after the Tote has deducted its 10% commission.
• The pool will be guaranteed at a minimum of £100,000 in stakes from paid entries. If value of paid entries is below £100,000 after the competition closes for entries, Tote will contribute the difference to total £100,000 in stakes for the purposes of the prize pool.

• The season win pool is calculated as follows:

  Stakes from all Paid Competition entries	100%
  (less) Tote commission	(10%)
  Season Win Prize Pool =	90% of Paid Commission entries

  The Paid Competition season win pool will be broken down as follows:

  Position	% of season win pool*	If £100,000 in total entries	If £200,000 in total entries
  1st	60%	£54,000	£108,000
  2nd	10%	£9,000	£18,000
  3rd	5%	£4,500	£9,000
  4th	3.5%	£3,150	£6,300
  5th	3%	£2,700	£5,400
  6th	2.5%	£2,250	£4,500
  7th	2%	£1,800	£3,600
  8th	1%	£900	£1,800
  9th	0.5%	£450	£900
  10th	0.5%	£450	£900
  Dec Monthly	3%	£2,700	£5,400
  Jan Monthly	3%	£2,700	£5,400
  Feb Monthly	3%	£2,700	£5,400
  Mar Monthly	3%	£2,700	£5,400

   

• Should more than one Stable score the same winning score, the Stables will be ranked in the order they were purchased (or in the case of free Stables, submitted) and the earliest submission will be awarded the prize. The selections within each Stable can be changed freely up until the competition closes for entries at 11am on Friday 15th November 2024. For the avoidance of doubt, each Stable will be timestamped when it is paid for (or in the case of free Stables, initially submitted), and not when any selections are subsequently made or Stables otherwise amended.
• For the purpose of calculating the monthly prizes, every Stable score is set to zero at the start of each month (this will not affect the accrual of Stable points for the purpose of the season long competition).
• Winners will be paid directly into their tote accounts, where the balance can be withdrawn using the normal withdrawal process.

Smart Pick

• The ‘Smart Pick’ auto-fill algorithm is intelligently designed to select the best horses to help maximise points for your Stable. The algorithm considers a range of data points to help calculate suggested picks for your Stable according to an historically optimal balance as used by previous high-scoring Stables in previous Competitions. 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.
• The ‘Smart Pick’ feature is designed as a tool to aid in the selection of your stable, but is no guarantee of performance and we accept no liability in this respect. You are responsible for your own decision with regards the submission of any Stable entries. Whilst we have provided details on the potential benefits of the Smart Pick functionality we do not and will not provide any formal advice in relation to a Stable in the Paid Competition or Free-To-Play Competition (together the “Competitions”). You must rely on your own judgement in deciding to enter a Stable into the Competitions.

General Rules

• You can monitor your entry online (either at www.tote.co.uk/ten-to-follow or www.tote.co.uk/ten-to-follow/racing-post), where an updated leaderboard will display the highest scores in both the Free-to-Play Competition and the Paid Competition at any given time.
• You will have the opportunity to make online substitutions during a transfer window, which will open from 11am Monday 3rd March to 5pm Monday 10th March 2025 to coincide with the start of the Cheltenham Festival. A maximum of two (2) substitutions per Stable will be permitted. We reserve the right to modify the list of horses available for selection at any point during the competition.
• Stables only score points for horses while they are active in their Stable. If Horse A is substituted from a Stable and replaced with a new Horse B, the Stable retains the points already scored by Horse A while Horse A was part of the Stable but earns no further points in respect of Horse A following substitution, and Horse B only begins to start scoring points for its new Stable once that substitution is complete. The Stable does not inherit points already scored by Horse B while it was outside the Stable.
• A horse will be eligible to score points for your Stable as soon as the substitution is complete. The Substitution window does not need to close on 10^th March 2025 before the horse can score points for your Stable.
• These rules are issued by TDCO Limited, 6^th floor, 6 Kean Street, London, WC2B 4AS, trading as “Tote”.
• TDCO Limited reserves the right to amend or alter these terms and conditions.
• Please bet responsibly – for help and advice please see the responsible gambling pages on our website and/or visit www.gambleaware.co.uk.