Deadline day to enter Cheltenham Festival mini game and transfer in new talent

There are important decisions to be made this week but, before the punting even starts, it is time to make your final selections for the Tote Ten To Follow Cheltenham mini game and to transfer new talent into your Ten To Follow squads.

The deadline for both is 10pm on Monday so if you keep up with the unfolding news at racingpost.com you will have the benefit of knowing final fields for the first two days of the festival before making your choices.

In the main game you might be sitting pretty with a handful of horses who have not only been the top points scorers this season (see table, below) but who are heading the betting for this week’s contests and likely to take their tallies higher.

If so, then making the two substitutions allowed might be enough to push you into contention for the game’s £104,832 first prize. If two substitutions are unlikely to be enough then you may want to enter the mini game to give yourself the chance of glory over the next four days and a substantial prize that will be determined by the number of entries. All stakes will be redistributed as prizes and payouts reach down to 500th position.

Royale Pagaille: the emerging star is Gold Cup-bound and has been added to the Tote Ten To Follow list of horsesCredit: John Grossick (racingpost.com/photos)

New names who have made their reputations since the season started have been added to the list of horses you can select, including Gold Cup-bound Royale Pagaille, Supreme Novices’ contender Metier, Triumph Hurdle hotpots Tritonic and Zanahiyr and Willie Mullins’ Ballymore hope Gaillard Du Mesnil and Champion Hurdle dark horse James Du Berlais.

The mini game, which you can enter , costs £5 per stable and there is a free-to-play game (one free entry per person), for which prizes include Cheltenham annual membership.

And if you’re playing the mini game make sure you share your stable on Twitter using #TenToFollow for a chance of winning a share in a Paul Nicholls-trained newcomer, courtesy of Old Gold Racing.

LEADING HORSES

1 Honeysuckle 80.04 points
2 Chacun Pour Soi 75.64
3 Frodon 74.50
4 First Flow 71.00
5 My Drogo 70.20
6 Cloth Cap 70.10
6 Kemboy 70.10
8 Appreciate It 67.94
9 Colreevy 67.82
10 Monkfish 66.96

LEADING TEAMS
1 Baffins Boyz 488.20 points
2 Timmy V10 476.94
3 A59 473.64
4 The Burno's 472.04
5 RT5 467.66
6 Melrose Place two 467.62
7 Rons Rangers 465.00
8 Jayjacko3 463.40
9 Judge John's Jumpers 461.92
10 BBX 455.72

LEADING STABLE
Honeysuckle 80.04 points
Chacun Pour Soi 75.64
Appreciate It 67.94
Monkfish 66.96
Shishkin 53.30
Envoi Allen 43.42
Thyme Hill 26.90
Bear Ghylls 25.10
McFabulous 25.10
Chantry House 23.80

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