TRF Ten To Follow 2017/18

[Venture to Cognac]

Sorry guys, just a quick update tonight. Well played all winners, especially those who had Star Horses winning, and as you can see, it is as tight as a hell at the top.

Bristol De Mai 12.00
Finians Oscar 28.40
Kemboy 22.10
L’Ami Serge 55.90
Might Bite 51.60
Supasundae 12.00
We Have A Dream 27.7

[Venture to Cognac]

Only one winner today, but a significant one, as Buckers double points on Politolgue, was enough to send him back to the top. Fran also benefitted from the double up, and he also scored for Diamond Geezer, and Viktors.

Politologue 36.7

[Venture to Cognac]

Gumball kicked things off today, scoring for Chestnut, Diamond Geezer, and Grey Desire, at Exeter.

Plenty of you scoring today with Un De Sceaux, including Ponti who has him as star horse, but it was a very big result for Buckers, who stretches his lead at the top.

Buckers looks hard to catch, but there’s still plenty can change, and he can be caught, with 3 Bonus Races up for grabs, and loads of horses running for those in the chasing pack.

Gumball 11.20
Un De Sceaux 29.3

[cormack15]

I think I needed Road To Respect there to have any hope of catching Buckers.

[Venture to Cognac]

Yeah Corm, you could have been doing with him, but a fine late effort from you, and to think I tried to talk you out of Native River, and Penhill at the start of the comp. Could have been a nervous last few days for me, if you had listened to me lol.

Guys, apologies for the delay in posting yesterdays results, especially at this crucial stage, but the IT issue floored me. Thankfully back up and running now.

I think I can call it now, but I’ll do it properly, and wait for the final day. Buckers can still mathematically be caught, but I think if I’m correct, Altior or Buveur D’Air would have to start at very big SP’s on Saturday.

Well done to Autumnal on his Bonus Race win with Bellshill on Wednesday, and several of you had Djakadam for the runner up points, including Tibbs, who’s had a blinder of a debut in this.

Faugheen was a big winner for loads of you, as was Footpad.

Bellshill 54.50
Djakadam 12
Faugheen 31.10
Footpad 26.20

[Venture to Cognac]

Been a great week for Autumnal, and he scored today, courtesy of his sub horse, Kemboy, while Supasundae, who won the bonus race, has been a great sub for Botchy.

Kemboy 28.60
Supsasundae 57

[Venture to Cognac]

Well, that’s it done and dusted.

First of all, todays winners.

Altior 26.10
Benie Des Dieux 28.10
Call Me Lord 27.30
Rock The Kasbah 12.00
Top Notch 26.6

Well done everyone with winners today, and that brings us on to the Final Scores. It’s been a fair old tussle, and has been tight all the way, and it’s been great to see the lead change hands several times.

Leaderboard

1st Buckers 831.90

2nd Roosterbooster 823.90

3rd Cormack15 793.20

4th Tibbsburge 775.30
5th Goodfellow 766.80
6th Kris 761.20
7th Dactylographer 756.60
8th Triptych 747.40
9th Rocky91 724.90
10th Viktors89 720.00

Lemons68 709.10
Titus Oates 707.00
Peejayuk 705.30
Fantastic Fair Along 703.70
Hot Fuss 667.90
Shotta Sheriff 667.20
JAMIEDB9007 664.40
Diamond Geezer 660.82
Thehorsesmouth 654.00
Blunkett 648.30
Botchy1 640.40
Peterh 636.20
Pontisback 626.50
Chestnut 616.90
GDC 616.30
FrankieMac 578.40
Red Rum 77 540.00
Greenasgrass 534.80
Bozlike 532.30
Pat123 531.10
Voleur 520.80
Ham 504.70
Tonge 499.90
Wyldesyde 495.30
Middle Of March 474.60
Aaronizneez 458.80
MarkTT 450.30
Inthestream 447.10
Grey Desire 431.40
Nathan Hughes 420.60
BigG 415.40
Cancello 375.80
Fran The Man 367.20
The Ante-Post King 355.10
BigGreenHorse 344.60
Nenni 285.10
Venture to Cognac 215.70
Autumnal 201.50
Rob North 199.20

Top Horses
Might Bite 131.9
Un De Sceaux 120.6
Buveur D’Air 119.8
Politologue 119.0
Footpad 104.2
Benie Des Dieux 103.8
Presenting Percy 99.9
Altior 99.2
Bristol De Mai 95.7
Blow By Blow 87.5
Samcro 86.4
General Principle 82.1
Total Recall 81.8
Supasundae 81.0
Definitly Red 80.1
Native River 76.8
Bellshill 76.0
Top Notch 75.5
Apples Jade 74.6
Faugheen 69.3
Penhill 63.8
Waiting Patiently 61.4
Guitar Pete 60.4
Gold Present 58.8
Road To Respect 58.5
L’Ami Serge 55.9
My Tent Or Yours 53.9
Monalee 52.5
Min 52.3
Kemboy 50.7
Pallasator 46.1
Call Me Lord 45.6
Finians Oscar 45.2
Anibale Fly 44.2
Apples Shakira 44.0
We Have A Dream 40.8
Clan Des Obeaux 40.7
Jenkins 39.0
Baywing 34.3
Bachasson 33.2
Go Conquer 32.2
Polidam 30.6
Planet Nine 29.8
Beyond The Clouds 29.1
Willoughby Court 28.8
Alpha Des Obeaux 28.5
Claimantakinforgan 28.4
Beware The Bear 28.2
Lil Rockerfeller 27.9
Blaklion 27.5
Sizing John 27.2
Fox Norton 26.6
Death Duty 26.5
If The Cap Fits 25.4
Whisper 25.2
Malaya 24.2
Brain Power 23.3
Our Duke 22.9
Disko 22.0
A Toi Phil 21.7
Great Field 21.6
Uknowhatimeanharry 21.5
Bamako Moriviere 18.5
Slate House 18.2
Sizing Granite 17.8
West Approach 17.6
Yanworth 17.5
Big River 17.5
Tombstone 16.9
Coney Island 16.9
Kayf Grace 15.6
Red River 15.2
Paloma Blue 14.4
Chesterfield 13.9
White Moon 13.0
Cue Card 12.0
American 12.0
Melon 12.0
Djakadam 12.0
Rock The Kasbah 12.0
Sutton Place 11.6
Livelovelaugh 11.5
Brio Conti 11.2
Red Jack 11.2
Mount Mews 11.2
Gumball 11.2

So we can now crown our new winner, and I can be the first to say very well played Buckers, an outstanding performance, and the choice of Politologue as star horse, was an inspired one. Very well done again, you were up there the whole way, and I’ll be in touch to get you your dough mate.

Very, very unlucky was Roosterbooster, who’s clearly the man for this competition, having won it before. What a finish. I’ll be in touch mate, an excellent score.

In third we have the boss (Cormack15), who came from absolutely nowhere, and by just missing out in third, we’ve avoided any accusations of “fix” lol. To think I tried to talk you out of Native River, and Penhill.

Some great scores in behind too, with an outstanding debut from Tibbsburge, and as per, Goodfellow is near the top in a TRF Competition. He’s a model of consistency.

Well played everyone else, it’s not easy, second guessing in October, who’re going to be the stars, but there were some inspired picks.

Now for the thanks.

It wouldn’t be The Final of Ten To Follow, without me thanking Lee (Aaronizneez). I’m slowly getting the hand of the spreadsheet, but he still gets the odd desperate E-Mail from me, and he has the patience of a saint. Thanks again Lee, I’d have chucked this after the first year without your help.

Once again, thanks to everyone who contributed to the prize fund, and it is greatly appreciated. I cannot believe we broke the £700 mark this year, namely……

BigG

Botchy1

Cav

Dactylographer

Fantastic Fair Along

FrankieMac

Inthestream

Nenni

Red Rum 77

Pat123

Peejayuk

The Ante-Post King

Triptych

I hope I’ve not missed anyone there. Guys, it’s greatly appreciated, and I can’t thank you enough.

I’ve really enjoyed it again this year, a proper battle, but like every other year, I’m very much looking forward to the break, and looking forward to getting the feet up.

Thanks all, and well done winners.

[Inthestream]

Many thanks Bobby for organising this, and well done Buckers ! Hope to be back again in October !

[Lemons68]

Congratulations Buckers, you were a deserved winner, and well done also to Rooster and Cormack.

I got excited for a good spell, but I just didn’t have the stamina.

Bobby, many thanks for this, it’s a great competition, I really enjoyed it, and I am already looking forward to the next one.

[Triptych]

Well done Buckers, think we knew it was all over when Politologue romped home at 11/1
You had some great picks there and your subs were perfectly timed.

What a great late run from Roosterbooster with Altior as his star horse on the last day a worthy runner up and Cormack in 3rd place. well done all.

I’m really chuffed to have ended up in 8th position and to have led the competition into the pre Cheltenham months of 2018 and I’ve learnt a lot about needing one or two special dark horses in your team.

Big thank you to Bobby as always for all his hard work along with Aeronizneez, I honestly don’t know where you find the energy to do this marathon competition but glad you do, put your feet up and enjoy the rest you two. Jac

Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...

[Nathan Hughes]

Well done Buckers and good effort for those in behind
Tremendous work Vtc, thank you very much for your efforts
back to the drawing board for me

Gaelic Warrior Gold Cup Winner 2026

[Kris]

Congratulations Buckers, you were a worthy winnner, well done. I can’t believe I made the top ten in this, which is a feat that I am unlikely to repeat.

As Nathan said, tremendous work VtC, it’s clearly a labour of love for you, and it’s a smashing competition. It gives me a bit of interest during the winter months, so many thanks for you hard work.

[robnorth]

Well done Buckers, and all those that beat me…, OK everybody!

Thanks once again to Venture To Cognac for organising the competition. It can’t be an easy task but things seem to run so smoothly.

The wheels came off for me in the latter stages. The aim with my northern list is to avoid bottom place but Autumnal ‘stayed on well past a beaten rival’ to condemn me to bottom place and relegation to the Lowland League or wherever! Too many of my selections ran into problems over the season and didn’t score although Beyond The Clouds, Big River, Planet Nine and Waiting Patiently did nicely for me, just a disappointment that the latter (a truly exciting animal) picked up an injury late on. Waiting Patiently has done me proud, unbeaten in two seasons on my list, and is a fine memorial to the late Malcolm Jefferson. Ascot Chase day was memorable and poignant.

I shall start beavering away to find a few quiet ones to throw into battle for next season!

Rob

[DiamondGeezer]

Well done Buckers and all other prize winners and prize donors, and a big thank you to VTC for running the competition, I think I have a good idea of how much time and effort it takes as I run one on another forum.Time for a rest and to enjoy the Summer Bud.

[greenasgrass]

Well done Buckers, superb choices. Thanks VtC for organising it…all those lists must drive you demented. And the donors for making up a nuce chunky prize
Looking forward to next season already!

[BigG]

Hats off to you Buckers, a worthy winner and that was a very impressive score.
A great run by Roosterbooster and Cormack to take the other 2 podium places,
very well done gents

A huge thanks to Bobby for running this again, and to Aaronizneez for his work
behind the scenes. I’m sure this puts years on you every year Bob, it probably
makes you about 136 now

I thought I was doing quite well at one time, second behind Triptych at one point,
and then my stable just fell off the world….most had sick lines.

As has already been said Bob, put your feet up, because you know you have to do it
all over again just a few months down the line

[Middle_Of_March]

Well done Buckers – superb stuff.

Thanks VTC for sorting it. My favourite comp.

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