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With The Arc been and gone, I thought I’d get the ball rolling to give those who’re interested, plenty of notice.
To help me out a bit, can I ask you all to do your lists in Alphabetical order, and not do them all in Capital letters, or in bold, and also NOT number them, then that would be much appreciated, it really does save me a lot of extra work when copying and pasting on to my spreadsheet. The layout below is ideal.
Allaho
Appreciate It
Defi du Seuil
Envoi Allen
Epatante
Honeysuckle
Lostintranslation
Monkfish
Saint Roi
Thyme HillI’ve decided to stick with the existing Bonus Races. I got a good few suggestions for additional bonus races, but I think there’s enough as it is. I did consider dropping The Bet365 Gold, but I’ve given it a stay of execution, as it got several runners this year
On the subject of Bonus Races, John Gooch has generously donated £100 to whoever scores the most on Bonus Races throughout the season. Many thanks John
No change to the transfer window either. Your new horse will be able to score straight away. In hindsight it was daft not letting them score straight away. Transfer Window will run from the end of Trials Day at Cheltenham to the start of Dublin Racing Festival.
Significant change to Rule 11, which should make it easier for you all
Rules and Points of Info
2024/25 TRF Ten to Follow Rules
1. Pick 10 horses to follow throughout this jump season, during the period from Saturday 2nd November 2024, to Saturday 3rd May 2025
2. Entries will be closed once the first race of the day is under way, on Saturday 2nd November.
3. Results will only count from National Hunt Races in Great Britain, and Ireland.
4. The Winner and Runner Up, will receive a cash prize. This final amount has yet to be confirmed, but I’ll confirm once finalised.
5. In the Event of a dead heat, points for race value will be awarded to both horses.
6. No points for a walkover
7. Pick any 10 horses of your choice.
8. Winning points will be taken from RP Website.
9. In the event of a major incident bringing a premature end to the season, or some similar unforeseen incident, I’ll make a judgment call, depending how far competition has gone.
10. In the event of a tie, the entry with most points from Bonus Races will be decided. If still tied, then highest scorer at Cheltenham will be the winner. If still undecided then those with most points from +£30k races will win……and so on. If a winner has still to be decided, then those with the biggest return for one race will get the prize, or those with the most 100 point scores, in the event of multiple 100 point winners.
11. Entrants can amend their lists before the 2nd November Deadline at any time. Seems sensible to me, to let you change at any time, so gives you more freedom to stick your list in early, as it’s now risk free.
12. After the last NH race on Cheltenham Trials Day on Saturday 25th January, a Transfer Window will run until the first NH Race on Saturday 1st February 2025.
13. Substitutes will score during The Transfer Window
Points
1.IN A RACE WORTH £30,000 OR MORE TO THE WINNER = 25 points
IN A RACE WORTH £25,000 UP TO £29,999 TO THE WINNER = 20
IN A RACE WORTH £15,000 UP TO £24,999 TO THE WINNER = 15
IN A RACE WORTH £10,000 UP TO £14,999 TO THE WINNER = 12
IN A RACE WORTH LESS THAN £10,000 TO THE WINNER = 10I’ll take the prize money from The Racing Post website, which would save me from converting Euros to Pounds for Irish races.
2.Tote dividend points will be awarded according to the official totewin including a £1 unit stake – as follows:
Win dividend – straight conversion from £’s to points. For example for a £7.70 win dividend the horse is awarded 7.7 points, £14.80 is awarded 14.80 points etc.
3. There will be no limit to the amount a horse can win on one single race.
4. An additional 25 points will be awarded to the winner and 12 points to the runner-up in each of the following races:
BETVICTOR GOLD CUP
BETFAIR CHASE
CORAL GOLD CUP
TINGLE CREEK
LONG WALK HURDLE
KING GEORGE VI CHASE
SAVILLS CHASE
LEOPARDSTOWN CHRISTMAS HURDLE
COTSWOLD CHASE
IRISH CHAMPION HURDLE
IRISH GOLD CUP
ASCOT CHASE
ARKLE
CHAMPION HURDLE
BROWN ADVISORY
CHAMPION CHASE
STAYERS HURDLE
RYANAIR CHASE
CHELTENHAM GOLD CUP
AINTREE BOWL
AINTREE HURDLE
MELLING CHASE
LIVERPOOL HURDLE
GRAND NATIONAL
SCOTTISH GRAND NATIONAL
IRISH GRAND NATIONAL
BET365 Gold Cup
PUNCHESTOWN GOLD CUP
PUNCHESTOWN CHAMPION CHASE
PUNCHESTOWN CHAMPION HURDLE
PUNCHESTOWN STAYERS HURDLEPast Winners
2015 Goldie
2016 Roosterbooster
2017 Fantastic Fair Along
2018 Buckers
2019 FrankieMac
2020 Euroalien
2021 Euroalien
2022 Buckers
2023 All Jeff
2024 KrisMany many thanks to Kris, who has donated some of his winnings from last season, and Cormack, who has generously contributed as well
Hopefully we’ll get a good turnout, and best of luck to you all.
Comes round so fast these days, or it maybe I’m getting old. Anyway will put my 10 in before the deadline.
The best things in life are free.
But you can give them to the birds and bees.The sound of VtC typing this much awaited post has woken me from my summer slumber. Looking forward to the return of the jumps. Will I go with another list of relatively unknown horses or will I have a crack at the tile this year? Who knows.
Working on my ‘where did he dig that one up from?’ list for Scotland and The North once again. Preparing for my usual wooden spoon battle but should have some interesting left field selections.
Usual game at this time of year is to avoid those that run and win before the start date! On the upside, Ayr race on Nov 2nd so just have to target something for that meeting.
TYT, if you stick to your usual approach, we’ll be guaranteed a few hidden gems
Rob, same to you, absolutely nailed on that there’ll be at least one future star in your lot
I’ve got a shortlist of fourteen at the moment, and just waiting on somebody nicking one of them……………probably you Rob lol
Seeing this TRF TTF post signals the real start of the NH season and the start of my favorite competition!
Thanks as always for getting this going again Bobby!
Good man Bobby ! Great to have the Jumps back on the scene. Here’s my ten – for the moment:
Ballyburn
Brighterdaysahead
Constitution Hill
Fact to File
Fastorslow
Firefox
Grey Dawning
Jonbon
Slade Steel
TeahupooI’ll ping you the usual. Thanks again for running this.
Good man ITS, and thanks for your usual generosity
Best of luck, and you’re first on the board
So looking forward to this one Bobby, although God Knows why as
I dom’t think I’ve reached the top half of the table yet. A change
of strategy is called for, but what?I’ll get the usual, plus upped a bit to pay for your bar-bill
Unreal Graham, thanks very much, it’s really appreciated. I’ll send you a pm tomorrow…………just in from work and done in
Wish you the best of luck whatever strategy you go for
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