Tote Ten to Follow Terms and Conditions

The Tote, in partnership with The Racing Post, is launching "Tote Ten to Follow" for the 2024 Flat racing season.

The following specific terms and conditions govern your participation in the Tote Ten to Follow competition (the “Ten to Follow Terms and Conditions”) in addition to the Tote’s general Terms and Conditions which can be found at the following link “Tote Terms and Conditions”. To the extent there is any inconsistency between these Ten to Follow Terms and Conditions and the Tote Terms and Conditions, the Tote Terms and Conditions shall prevail. Defined terms in the Tote Terms and Conditions shall apply in these Ten to Follow Terms and Conditions (unless otherwise defined).

Key terms

£5/€5.50 per stable in the paid game. 60% of net prize pool to the winner with a min guarantee of £/€10,000 to the winner (see full terms for details). Max 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 Tote Credit cannot be withdrawn, exchanged or substituted and expires after 7 days.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 on Friday 31st May 2024. UK and ROI only. Full Terms and Conditions apply. 18+ Begambleaware.org (Dunlewey.org for IRE ads)

Entry Conditions

  • In order to participate, You must be a newly registered or existing customer at www.tote.co.uk/ten-to-follow/play/ 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 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.
  • This competition will open for entries at 11am on Monday 20th May 2024. Entries must be submitted by 11am on Friday 31st May 2024.
  • You must select ten (10) horses to follow from the list of horses put together by the Tote and 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 11am on Friday 31st May 2024 and the finish at 6pm on Saturday 19th October 2024, 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.
      • Points will be awarded for all races in UK and Ireland, as well as Group/Graded races in France, and Group/Grade 1s only in other countries (eg: USA, Germany etc)
    • The bonus races are:
      • The Oaks (Epsom) - 3yo Fillies 1m4f
      • The Derby (Epsom) - 3yo Colts 1m4f
      • Irish Derby (Curragh) - 3yo Colts 1m4f
      • Queen Anne Stakes (Ascot) - 4yo+ 1m
      • The Commonwealth Cup (Ascot) - 3yo 6f
      • St James' Palace Stakes (Ascot) - 3yo Colts 1m
      • Prince of Wales' Stakes (Ascot) - 4yo+ 1m2f
      • Ascot Gold Cup (Ascot) - 4yo+ 2m4f
      • Coronation Stakes (Ascot) - 3yo Fillies 1m
      • Platinum Jubilee Stakes (Ascot) - 4yo+ 6f
      • Eclipse Stakes (Sandown) - 3yo+ 1m2f
      • July Cup (Newmarket July) - 3yo+ 6f
      • King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes (Ascot) - 3yo+ 1m4f
      • Sussex Stakes (Goodwood) - 3yo+ 1m
      • International Stakes (York) - 3yo+ 1m2f
      • Nunthorpe (York) - 2yo+ 5f
      • Ebor (York, Heritage H'cap) - 4yo+ 1m6f
      • Ayr Gold Cup (Ayr, Heritage H'cap) - 3yo+ 6f
      • Irish Champion Stakes (Leopardstown) - 3yo+ 1m2f
      • St Leger (Doncaster) - 3yo 1m6f
      • Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (Paris Longchamp) - 3yo+ 1m4f
      • Champion Stakes (Ascot) - 3yo+ 1m2f
      • Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (Ascot) - 3yo+ 1m
  • 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. For races outside the UK and Ireland, the Tote returns used will be the tote return local to that racecourse as published by the Racing Post.
  • Example: £1 win at 5.50 + £1 place at 1.20 = 6.70 points awarded.
  • The period for scoring points will finish at 6pm on Saturday 19th October 2024.

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 prizes 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 as 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 Flat 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 June 2024, July 2024, August 2024, and September 2024 will be awarded a prize of 3% of the total net pool after the Tote has deducted its 10% commission.

  • The season win pool is calculated as follows:

    Stakes from all Paid Competition entries 100%
    (Less) Tote commission (10%)
    Season Win Pool Total = 90% of Paid Competition entries

    The Paid Competition Season Win pool will be broken down as follows:

    Position %*
    Fund     		  If £50,000 in total entries If £100,000 in total entries
    1st 60% £27,000 £54,000
    2nd 10% £4,500 £9,000
    3rd 5% £2,250 £4,500
    4th 3.5% £1,575 £3,150
    5th 3% £1,350 £2,700
    6th 2.5% £1,125 £2,250
    7th 2% £900 £1,800
    8th 1% £450 £900
    9th 0.5% £225 £450
    10th 0.5% £225 £450
    June Monthly 3% £1,350 £2,700
    July Monthly 3% £1,350 £2,700
    August Monthly 3% £1,350 £2,700
    September Monthly 3% £1,350 £2,700
  • The winner will be guaranteed a minimum of £10,000. If the winner’s 60% share of the net pool is less than £10,000, Tote will contribute the difference to total £10,000 in prize money to the winner. If the prize pool is such that the winner’s share exceeds £10,000, the winner’s prize will increase (as per the table shown above.
  • 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 31st May 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.
  • 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/play/ 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 Wednesday 14th August 2024 to 11am Wednesday 21st August 2024 to coincide with the start of the York Ebor meeting. 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 21st August 2024 before the horse can score points for your Stable.
  • We reserve the right to modify the list of horses available for selection at any point during the competition.
  • Please note that Stables entered into private leagues may be subject to additional terms and conditions, which will be made available to all private league entrants.
  • These rules are issued by TDCO Limited, 6th 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.
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