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| System
for the Tote Ten To Follow : Jumps |
| Intro, Oct 2009: Welcome
to the 12th time our free system for the Totesport Our objective is to give anyone picking their own lines of ten purely from our system's shortlist of horses a sporting chance of being the next big winner. That could certainly have been the case in ten of the past eleven postings, when the system gained enough... |
points to have finished, since 2001: 1st, 1st, 2nd, 0, 1st, 4th, 11th
+ £10K prize, 1st, 1st + £10K prize, 1st + 3 x £10K prizes
and, last season, 3rd. Altogether, potentially netting over £2.1m in prize-money. The 2009-10
Jumps comp. begins on Fri 13th Nov 2009 and ends on Grand National day, 10th April 2010. Our 2009-10 shortlist table appears below. The table is also available as a blank .doc or .htm template. |
| Final shortlist will be posted here 12.11.09 |
| Our system: The competition's master list of 400 horses is reduced by our team down to just 36 horses or fewer. This shortlist is then divided into five smaller subgroups which further aids perming and sensible structuring of lines. Perming instructions are denoted by brown text in column 3 of the table below. The system's other rules are integral in the table, or are accessed by blue links in the table. |
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| Key - a key to abbreviations appears under the shortlist. | Convert Irish-race euros to £s hence points |
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Categories (Type of Jumper) |
SHORTLIST (this col) =
36 named horses max
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Other horses being considered for col 3 only if space available |
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1, 2, |
2m Hrdlrs - Chmpn Hdl types, 4 max, All ages, incl subs in Feb, are always shown as at start of comp in Nov. |
(1) Perming - When entering the TTF in November, for your first line of ten, start by taking any two from the
first four below, then proceed down to note (2)...
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Punjabi Celestial Halo 5g Nicholls |
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3, 4, |
2m Chsrs - Qn Mother Chase types, 4 max, |
(2) ...take any 2 from the 8 below (which are numbered in suggested weighting order), then continue to note (3)...
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Barker |
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| 2m Nov Chsrs - Arkle types, 2 max, |
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Tataniano 10-1Catch Me 7g Ir |
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| 3m Nov Chsrs - RSA types, 2 max, |
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5, |
2½m Hcp Chsrs - Paddy Power types, 4 max, |
(3) ...take any 1 from the 4 below, then continue down to note (4)...
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6, 7, 8, |
3m Chsrs - King George VI types, 4 max, |
(4) ...take any 3 from the 12 below (numbered in suggested weighting order), then continue to note (5)...
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13-0 Nacarat 3m+ Chasers rule |
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3¼m Chsrs - Chelt Gold Cup types, 4 max, |
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Notre Pere |
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3¼m Hcp Chsrs - Hennessy GC types, 4 max, |
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Carruthers Gone To Lunch |
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9, 10. |
Miscellaneous types, 8 max, preferred ages NH 4-6yo, SH 5-7yo, NC 5-8yo, SC 6-11yo. |
(5) ...take any 2 from the 8 below to complete the first line of ten, then continue down to note (6)...
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Voy Por Ustedes 8g 2m+C King, Starluck 4 2mNH Fleming sm trnr [JM: /], 10-1 Dunguib 6g 2mNH Ir/Fenton [Ian: / ] Schindlers Hunt 9 Ir [MP (for Ir chases): / ] Barbers Shop 7g 2½mC Hndrsn [MP: / ] Aran Concerto 8g Ir [KJ, for Ir chases: / ] Fiveforthree SH, Karabak SH, Misc Rule |
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| (6) ...on completing your first line of ten, return to top of list and pick another line of ten, choosing differing numbers. Repeat this until you have completed the number of lines you intend to enter. We recommend, in your first four lines, that you include all 36 selections (including all blank sels.), so you have covered every horse and every blank at least once in your overall entry. In each of those first four lines, mix stronger horses and blanks with more speculative horses and, finally,
fill in the blanks as wildcards to fine-tune the lines. Then, in your subsequent eight or so lines, start to whittle your lesser fancies out so as to pull more of your stronger fancies and pro-rata blanks together. We suggest about twelve lines altogether - that's £144
for postal entries, which is about £6.64 a week for a whole season's enjoyment without
breaking the bank if things turn out bad this year for either our shortlist or your choices of tens from it.
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| 11, 12 |
Bonus Horses 8 sels rqd in Feb from which to choose various pairs per line All ages, including bonus horses, are always shown as at start of comp in Nov. Bonus Horse Rule GN Rule |
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Others considered...
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| Key to abbreviations... / = a forward slash is used to separate a horse's results in the competition before/after the Thursday/Friday of the 2nd week in January, the same time as in previous seasons (when it used to mark the old January deadline for making substitutions). From 2009, the / serves solely to show which shortlisted horses go into Cheltenham with/without the benefit of a prep-run in the 2 months prior to the Festival. [CR: 04f 25jf / F c- a3] = an example of a horse's results in the competition showing: the horse was submitted by a reader (with initials CR:); on its first run the horse was unplaced (0); on its second run it finished fourth (4) when also favourite for the race (f); on its third run the horse scored 25 points (25 in bold) when a joint favourite for the race (jf); then came the 2nd week in January (/); on its fourth run the horse fell (F) and was not the favourite (i.e. not Ff); the horse failed to run at Cheltenham (c-); at Aintree it finished 3rd and was not the favourite (a3). 7, 8 etc. = a horse's age denoted in red, whether an original horse or a later February addition, was outside of the preferred age range (in November) specified in column 2 (also see below under 'red' in this para) a = in a horse's results, horse ran at Aintree in April : c = in a horse's results, horse ran at Cheltenham in March : c- = in a horse's results, horse failed to run at Cheltenham in March : C = Chaser : CH = Champion Hurdle : col = column : d = dead : eas = on easy list : f = favourite : F = Fell over, throwing rider off : Fr = French trainer : GC = Gold Cup : H = Hurdler : hc or hcp = handicap : inj = injury or injured : Ir = Irish Trainer : jf = joint favourite : K = knuckled on landing causing rider to fall off : m = mare : NC = Novice Chaser : NH = Novice Hurdler : nr = non-runner in either of targeted first two bonus races : out = reportedly out for rest of season or, at least, for remainder of competition : P = Pulled up : pd = put down : poss = possible or possibility : PP = Paddy Power Gold Cup : [Res] = results box : red = all remarks in red are a definite negative for the competition, though not always a bar to inclusion in our shortlist : S = skidded on landing causing rider to fall off : SC = Staying Chaser : Sel = selection : SH = Staying Hurdler : sm trnr = small trainer : U = unseated rider after a bad jump : vac or vacant = vacant slot (as defined in main rules) : yo = years old as at November of current season (ages are not changed for Jan 1st birthdays, including for bonus horses added in February). |
| Best possible rule-compliant lines from the system's shortlist (col 3 above) are as follows... |
| Type | Horse | Pts | ||||
| 2m hurdlers (2 sels per line) | | Name (Trainer) | ||||
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| QM, Arkle or RSA Chase types (2 sels per line) |
| Name (Trainer) | ||||
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| Paddy Power sel | | Name (Trainer) | ||||
| 3m+ chasers (3 sels per line) |
| Name (Trainer) | ||||
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| Misc (NH, NC, SH, SC or W/card) (2 sels per line) |
| Name (Trainer) | ||||
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| Feb Bonus Horse 1* | ||||||
| Feb Bonus Horse 2* | ||||||
| System's best score | = ??? | |||||
| Real leader's score | = ??? | |||||
| View official leaderboard | ||||||
| Comments in running (latest first) | Back to top |
| xx.11.09 - xx pts - The first leader-board appeared today in Tuesday's Racing Post. The real leader was on 1xx points. Our shortlist's best line was on xx points. |
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