Tote launches Ten to Follow Mini Game for Cheltenham Festival

  • New Tote Ten to Follow Mini Game open to play

  • Transfer Window for the 2020/21 Jumps Competition opens next week

  • £500,000 worth of prizes for Tote Ten to Follow since 2019

Wednesday 3rd March 2021

Today, the Tote launches the first ever Tote Ten to Follow Mini Game for the 2021 Cheltenham Festival.

The Mini Game is open with players able to pick stables of 10 horses to compete across the four days of the Cheltenham Festival.

It costs £5 per stable to enter the paid game (entries unlimited), with all stakes being redistributed as prizes and pay outs going down to the 500th position.  The more people who enter, the bigger the prize pot to be distributed.

In the free-to-play game (one free entry per person), there are a number of racing specific prizes, kindly supported by Cheltenham Racecourse and Horse Racing Ireland.  These include:

  • Annual Membership for Cheltenham (including the Festival)

  • Two hospitality tickets to the Panorama Restaurant at Cheltenham for Saturday 13th November

  • A pair of 2022 Cheltenham Gold Cup Day Tickets

  • Two hospitality tickets to the Leopardstown Christmas Meeting 2021

Players have until 10pm on Monday 15th March, the evening before the Cheltenham Festival, to submit their stables.

Customers score points when one of their horses wins or places, based on the of quality of race and the price of the horse. The Mini Game has eight bonus races which are worth an additional 25 points for a win and 12 points for finishing second. These races during the Cheltenham Festival are:

  • Arkle Challenge Trophy

  • Champion Hurdle

  • Queen Mother Champion Chase

  • Festival Novices Chase (formerly the RSA Chase)

  • Stayers Hurdle

  • Ryanair Chase

  • County Hurdle

  • Cheltenham Gold Cup 

For example, Al Boum Photo won the Gold Cup last year and received 25 points for a Grade 1, 25 points for the bonus race, 4.33 for his win return and 1.80 points for his place return on the Tote for a grand total of 56.13 points.

The full list of eligible horses, scoring system and rules are available on tote.co.uk.

 Transfer Window Open for the Jumps Season Tote Ten to Follow Competition

Nearly 45,000 stables are currently competing in the 2020/21 Jumps Season Tote Ten to Follow Competition.

Ahead of the Cheltenham Festival, players will have a chance to transfer up to two horses in their stables for the remainder of the season, which will conclude at Sandown Park on Saturday 24th April 2021. The Transfer Window will open at 7am on Wednesday 10th March and close at 10pm on Monday 15th March.

UK Tote Group Racing Director, Jamie Hart, said: “We know how popular Tote Ten to Follow is and so we wanted to bring it to the four fantastic days of racing at the Cheltenham Festival. With loads of prizes up for grabs, we hope as many racing fans as possible will get involved. For those already playing the jumps season game it’s an important time to consider any changes they want to make to their stables for the remainder of the jumps season. Good luck to everyone who gets involved!”  

 
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£500,000 worth of prizes for the Tote Ten to Follow Competitions

Since Tote Ten to Follow was relaunched after the UK Tote Group’s acquisition of the Tote in October 2019, there has been £350,000 available in prizes for the 2019/20 Jumps Season and 2020 Flat Season competitions, with another £150,000 up for grabs in the current 2020/21 Jumps Season competition. 

The 2019/20 Jumps Season competition saw Richard Hutchinson win over £177,000, and the 2020 Flat Season competition was won by Robin Green who took home over £64,000.

 For more information about the UK Tote Group please visit www.uktotegroup.com and follow us @UKToteGroup and @ToteRacing.

ENDS.

For further information, please contact:

Susannah Gill
Communications and Corporate Affairs Director
UK Tote Group
susannah.gill@uktotegroup.com
07751 870 929

Notes to Editors

About UK TOTE GROUP

UK Tote Group is the proud owner and steward of the Tote, the UK’s leading pool betting operator.

The Tote has been a core part of British horseracing since 1928 when it was established by Parliament under Winston Churchill as Chancellor of the Exchequer, to provide the public with a safe way to bet and vital funding for the sport.

UK Tote Group is committed to fulfilling Churchill’s founding mission through a revitalised Tote which provides better value and an improved experience to customers, as well as funding for British horseracing. 

The 90-year-old British company is backed by racehorse owners and breeders from around the world. It has an exclusive partnership with British racecourses to provide pool betting services to the six million people who attend race meetings in Great Britain every year, alongside an alliance with Tote Ireland.

The Tote employs 150 people who are based in the Tote’s main office in Wigan and a satellite office in London.