Tote Ten to Follow live on Wednesday 20th November

Wednesday 13th November, 2019

Today, the UK Tote Group is pleased to confirm that Tote Ten to Follow will be live from 00:01 on Wednesday 20th November.

Players will be able to pick and submit their stables from next Wednesday until midday on Saturday 30th November.

The game will then run from the start of racing on Saturday 30th November to the end of the National Hunt season on Saturday 25th April 2020.

Everyone can read the full details about the game and register their interest here: https://tote.co.uk/ten-to-follow.  

Anyone who registers their interest before the end of Monday 18th November will be in with a chance to win two tickets to Gold Cup Day at the Cheltenham Festival on Friday 13th March 2020. This ticket competition closes at midnight on Monday 18th November with the winner notified by email by Monday 2nd December.

It will cost £5 to pick a stable and players will be in with a chance of winning at least £250,000 worth of prizes and the more people that play, the bigger the prizes. There will also be a free-to-play version with a £10,000 prize to the winner.

Key components for playing the new Tote Ten to Follow are as follows:

• Players pick a stable of ten horses to represent them for the 2019/20 National Hunt season;

• Horses accumulate points throughout the season on the follow points basis

  • A Grade 1 is worth 25 points

  • A Grade 2 is worth 20 points

  • A Grade 3 is worth 15 points

  • Any Listed race is worth 12 points

  • Any other race is worth 10 points

• There are 15 bonus races which are worth an additional 25 points to the winner and 12 points to the runner up, as well as extra points based on the payout of a £1 each-way bet with the Tote. The 15 bonus races and full details of the scoring system are listed on the Tote Ten to Follow registration page;

• The stable with the most points at the end of the season will win the top prize of a minimum of £175,000, however this could be more depending on entry numbers. In addition, there will be a £10,000 prize for the player with the most points in each month for December 2019 to March 2020 inclusive.

Mark Kemp, UK Tote Group Managing Director, said: “We have been delighted by the positive response from racing fans to the return of Tote Ten to Follow in a new modern format. With £250,000 of guaranteed monthly and season long prizes to play for, we hope the new Tote Ten to Follow will be as popular as before.  We are excited to be working with the Racing Post whose extensive reach and depth of coverage will ensure racing fans have all the information they need to pick their stables over the next few weeks.”

For more information about Tote Ten to Follow please visit: https://tote.co.uk/ten-to-follow

For more information about the UK Tote Group please visit www.uktotegroup.com and follow us @UKToteGroup and @ToteRacing.

ENDS.

For further information, please contact:

Susannah Gill
Communications and Corporate Affairs Director
UK Tote Group
susannah.gill@uktotegroup.com
07751 870 929

Notes to Editors

About UK TOTE GROUP

UK Tote Group is the proud owner and steward of the Tote, the UK’s leading pool betting operator.

The Tote has been a core part of British horseracing since 1928 when it was established by Parliament under Winston Churchill as Chancellor of the Exchequer, to provide the public with a safe way to bet and vital funding for the sport.

UK Tote Group is committed to fulfilling Churchill’s founding mission through a revitalised Tote which provides better value and an improved experience to customers, as well as funding for British horseracing. 

The 90-year-old British company is backed by racehorse owners and breeders from around the world and has an exclusive partnership with 55 British racecourses to provide pool betting services to the six million people who attend race meetings in Great Britain every year.

The Tote employs 90 people who are based in the Tote’s main office in Wigan and a satellite office in London.