Early action is key as £100,000 Tote Ten To Follow launches for Flat season

The Tote on Friday launched its Ten To Follow competition for the Flat season, offering £100,000 guaranteed prize-money, plus four £10,000 monthly prizes from June to September and prize-money stretching all the way to 100th in the table.

The entry fee remains at £5 per team and the size of the top prize is dependent on the number of entries, with 70 per cent of the pool going to the winner. A free-to-play league carries a £5,000 top prize and there is also a charity league with a £5,000 prize.

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Racing fans who enter will have additional reason to follow the action closely when the sport resumes on Monday as the initial list of horses in the competition, run in association with the Racing Post, will also take on board those who emerge as big-race contenders during the entry window, which runs until 11am on Tuesday, June 16, just a couple of hours before the first race at Royal Ascot when the points scoring starts. The competition will run until Champions Day at Ascot on Saturday, October 17, with a transfer window scheduled for August.

The Racing Post will keep readers up to date by publishing updates on horses entering the list as well as giving daily guidance from its team of experts on which horses to include.

There is a strong incentive to make entries early as tied placings will be decided by the date and time of entry and a new feature of the game allows entries to be amended right up until deadline day so there is no disadvantage in getting on board early.

Other innovations for the Flat season include the ability to set up mini leagues between friends, family, and colleagues, and a 'Pro Mode' making it easier to create multiple stables.

The jumps competition, which concluded prematurely when the season was terminated after the Cheltenham Festival, brought a £177,000 first prize to Richard Hutchinson, a 50-year-old lifelong racing enthusiast from Ipswich and his friend Garry Ambrose.

Tiger Roll's Grand National-winning partner Davy Russell won the charity version, splitting his winnings between Clionas, which supports families with terminally ill children, and the Irish Cancer Society, for which he and Jim Bolger organise an annual hurling match.

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