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Just found out there will be no 10 to follow this coming season from Totesport, and that it was a "business decision"….
Real shame, was enjoying compiling my lists, and thought it added a little more excitement throughout the season as it was a good competition.
Oh well…Disappointed at this news too Harvey……had 3 or 4 lists provisionally drawn up, and one of them was going to land it as well
Probably too late for them to reconsider, but I just hope they can do something.
I suppose someone could draw up a TRF version to give a small interest, I’d be happy to do it, though probably worth mentioning I wouldn’t be offering up a similar prize.
I echo the above, poor from Fred IMO.
There’s always the Hills comp to fall back on, but that isn’t as thorough as the Tote one used to be.
I don’t know how much it costs to run the competition, but if 70% of the fund goes towards prizemoney, then I would have thought 30% would be more than enough to cover running costs, administration etc.
I’m pretty certain the jumps has always been more popular than the flat making the number of entrants considerably more, hence more money collected.
If the flat competition was waining then maybe scrap that, but don’t do it to the jumps based on those figures….
A very good competition, made better by the decent website they designed….will be sorely missed…..Have you ever won anything on it harvey?
Did it once, thought I was doing fantastic in it, most of my horses were doing well but I was just about in the top half
Not my cup of tea.
Have you ever won anything on it harvey?
Did it once, thought I was doing fantastic in it, most of my horses were doing well but I was just about in the top half
Not my cup of tea.
Came within 2 points of grabbing a monthly prize on the flat last season (£2,500).
And three years ago came around 80th over jumps, but no prizemoney.
Enjoy it all the same…I was joint leader, with quite a few others, at an early stage one jumps season. Sadly two of my horses died and one was retired by Christmas but the other seven all made it to Cheltenham with leading chances. Barton Bank broke blood vessels and was pulled up in the Sun Alliance chase and that put the tin lid on it for me.
One year on the flat, if I had picked Sinndar and one other horse with any points, my other 8 would have given me enough points to have won it.
Other than that I was never really near it and when you realise you are competing against people who are actually picking
twenty
to follow and perming every combination of them, you are aware it isn’t any fun for some people but a determination to win by force of money, than any actual skill at picking just ten.
It’s been a good few years since I bothered entering and I don’t usually bother with the tipping competitions in general, as it always seems the case that people have maximum stakes on the biggest priced winners and are posting ridiculous profits, that some people couldn’t probably get if you gave them the results the day after.
Thanks for the good crack. Time for me to move on. Be lucky.
Have you ever won anything on it harvey?
Did it once, thought I was doing fantastic in it, most of my horses were doing well but I was just about in the top half
Not my cup of tea.
I’ve won it once and come in the top 50 more than a few times. First two occasions back when Pacemaker Magazine had it, before Racing Post took over (Miesque). Had a great plan by including German horses, but they put a stop to "all European Group 1’s" (Monsun, Lando etc). Led the Royal Ascot comp for a couple of days one year (Haradurson), and in the top 10 in the overall comp until the last few weeks of one season.
When they used to do prizes for major meetings, I (three man syndacate of which I did the 15 lists)
"won"
the "York Ebor" £10,000 prize with just three horses scoring!
Authorised and Dylan Thomas (first and second in the International) and Septimus winning the Yorkshire Cup… Trouble is there were 32 other winning lists! 
That was the last time the York Ebor meeting was featured. I lost interest in it after they stopped the monthly prize, not worth doing.Value Is EverythingI’ll finish 8th if CDA wins the Champion but could have won it if Ectot hadn’t flopped!!!
Disappointed that they are not continuing it but not surprised as the prize money had been steadily decreasing.
"this perfect mix of poetry and destruction, this glory of rhythm, power and majesty: the undisputed champion of the world!!!"
Jumps TTF was hugely popular for many years. They used to guarantee 500k fund.
Late ’90s/ early ’00s, ‘new management’ came in and despite dire warnings from the old hands at the Tote, decided to double the entry fee to a tenner. The decline began then.
If there’s enough interest I’ll put up a 200 quid prize for a forum TTF jumps season competition.
Someone else can run it though….
Let me know.
Cav, I was just in the middle of drawing up some rules for one anyway, so I’d be happy to run it.
Authorised and Dylan Thomas (first and second in the International) and Septimus winning the Yorkshire Cup… Trouble is there were 32 other winning lists! 
That was the last time the York Ebor meeting was featured. I lost interest in it after they stopped the monthly prize, not worth doing.
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