Play the game of the season: entry window opens for £20,000 Tote Ten To Follow

How the game works
The Racing Post has compiled a list of more than 500 horses from which players pick a stable of ten to represent them during the 2022 Flat season from 11am on Friday, June 3 until 5pm on Saturday, October 15.

You can enter the Tote Ten To Follow here

How much does it cost?
It’s £5 in the UK or €5.50 in Ireland entry fee per stable, giving access to a free-to-play game. Each player has one entry in the free-to-play game.

The prize
There is a £20,000 guaranteed first prize. The pool is determined by the number of entries and pays prizes down to tenth place, plus monthly prizes in June, July, August and September. Ten per cent commission is taken by the Tote to cover the costs of running the game, with the rest of the net pool distributed in prizes.

The winners
Sixty per cent of the pool goes to the winner and the rest is divided from second to tenth place, minus 12 per cent to cover monthly prizes. The free-to-play game has raceday prizes.

The scoring
Horses gain points as follows:
Group 1 win = 25 points
Group 2 win = 20 points
Group 3 win = 15 points
Listed win = 12 points
Any other race = 10 points

Extra points
These are gained based on a payout of a £1 each-way bet with the Tote.

The bonus races
There are 23 bonus races which are worth an additional 25 points to the winner and 12 points to the second.

The 23 bonus races and last season’s winners
The Oaks (Epsom) Snowfall
The Derby (Epsom) Adayar
Queen Anne Stakes (Royal Ascot) Palace Pier
St James’s Palace Stakes (Royal Ascot) Poetic Flare
Prince of Wales’s Stakes (Royal Ascot) Love
Gold Cup (Royal Ascot) Subjectivist
Commonwealth Cup (Royal Ascot) Campanelle
Coronation Stakes (Royal Ascot) Alcohol Free
Platinum Jubilee Stakes (Royal Ascot) Dream Of Dreams
Irish Derby (The Curragh) Hurricane Lane
Eclipse Stakes (Sandown) St Mark’s Basilica
July Cup (Newmarket) Starman
King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes (Ascot) Adayar
Sussex Stakes (Goodwood) Alcohol Free
International Stakes (York) Mishriff
Nunthorpe Stakes (York) Winter Power
Ebor Handicap (York) Sonnyboyliston
Irish Champion Stakes (Leopardstown) St Mark’s Basilica
St Leger (Doncaster) Hurricane Lane
Ayr Gold Cup (Ayr) Bielsa
Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (Longchamp) Torquator Tasso
Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (Ascot) Baaeed
Champion Stakes (Ascot) Sealiway

The deadline
The game opens for entries at 11am today, May 23 and closes at 6pm on June 2. Horses begin scoring from June 3. Selections may be changed freely until the deadline.

What’s new?
Smart pick: an auto-fill algorithm designed to select the best horses for your stable. Whether you want the algorithm to pick one, two or all ten horses, it will pick a balanced stable optimised to score the most points across the season. The algorithm has been fine-tuned to select the optimum balance of stable. This includes targeting bonus races, selecting bankers and picking wildcard horses who can make the difference.

Substitutions
There will be a seven-day transfer window when two free substitutions can be made to lists from 11am on August 10 to 11am on August 17.

Terms
The Tote Ten to Follow is open to entrants with a UK or Irish address and a verified Tote account. All players must be 18 or over. It is not open to employees of the Tote or Racing Post. Entry is online only.

Key Terms: £5/€5.50 per stable in the paid game. 60% of net prize pool to the winner with a minimum guaranteed of £/€20,000 to the winner (see full terms for details of prize breakdown). Maximum one entry per person in the free game. Entries close at 6pm on Thursday June 2, 2022. UK and ROI only. Full terms and conditions apply. 18+ Begambleaware.org (Dunlewey.net)

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Sign up here. £5/€5.50 per stable in the paid game and 60 per cent of net prize pool to the winner with a minimum guarantee of £/€20,000 to the winner (see full terms for details of prize breakdown). Maximum one entry per person in the free game. Entries close at 6pm on Thursday, June 2, 2022. UK and ROI only. Full terms and conditions apply. 18+. begambleaware.org.