THE Aintree Tipster Competition

[MereNovice]

*** Breaking News ***
A free "Super 50" Seat at DTD has been added to the prize pool.
See the post by tikay on page 3 of this thread for details.


I am pleased to announce this year's Blonde Aintree Tipster Competition.

The rules are as follows:

1. Entry is open to everyone upon payment of a £25 entry fee to me. I will PM my bank details to everyone who has expressed even a remote interest (see next post). Payment must be received by me before 1pm on Thursday 12th April. If you are interested, please indicate below or PM me. Each person may enter up to a maximum of two times. Each entry costs £25.

2. The competition will be run over the 21 races from Thursday 12th April to Saturday 14th April 2012.

3. Each entrant will pick one horse per race. The selection must either be for a £2 win or a £1 each-way bet. Winnings will be settled on the basis of Starting Prices.
If you fail to make a selection or select a non-runner it will be counted as a £2 win bet on the favourite (lowest racecard number if there are joint/co favourites).

4. The place component of an each-way bet will be decided using the following criteria:
1/4 the odds for a place for each horse officially returned on the results for each race on www.gg.com

5. I will be using www.gg.com for the purpose of deciding the result of each race.

6. Entries must be sent to me via PM by 1pm on the day of the races. I will then make everyone's selections available via a spreadsheet to which I will post a link on this thread by 1:30pm that day.

7. The winner will be the person who makes most profit (or least loss) over the course of the festival.

8. My decision is final in all matters (until proven otherwise).



The payout structure will be as follows:

1-10 entrants
1st 100%

11-20 entrants
1st 75%
2nd 25%

21-30 entrants
1st  60%
2nd 30%
3rd 10%

>30 entrants
tba



Have fun.

[MereNovice]

Those who have expressed an interest so far are:

bobby1  (x2)      PAID   SELECTED
tikay       (x2)      PAID   SELECTED
Karabiner            PAID   SELECTED
MahoganyVic       PAID   SELECTED
typhoon13          PAID   SELECTED
DUNK619            PAID   SELECTED
milligan84            PAID   SELECTED
redsimon             PAID   SELECTED
claypole               PAID   SELECTED
horseplayer         PAID   SELECTED
Simon Galloway   PAID   SELECTED
MTT DESTROYER  PAID   SELECTED
MajorMajor            PAID   SELECTED
Doobs                 PAID   SELECTED
Eso Kral               PAID
railtard1
dllewellyn

[MahoganyVic]

Sounds good, i'll play!

[Eso Kral]

Donating!

[tikay]

Thanks Vince, I will be making two entries.

Will commence my selections shortly via my secret and infallible algorithm.

[bobby1]

I will have two entries please

Cheers

[Karabiner]

I'm in.

[MereNovice]

The races that will be used in the competition are:

Thursday:

2:00    BGC Partners Liverpool Hurdle Grade 1 Cl1 3m110y BBC2    
2:30    Matalan Anniversary 4-Y-O Juvenile Hurdle Grade 1 Cl1 2m110y BBC2       
3:05    Betfred Bowl Chase Grade 1 Cl1 3m1f BBC2    
3:40    John Smith´s Fox Hunters´ Chase Cl2 2m5f110y BBC2       
4:15    matalan.co.uk Red Rum Handicap Chase Grade 3 Cl1 2m BBC2       
4:50    Betfred Manifesto Novices´ Chase Grade 1 Cl1 2m4f       
5:25    Silver Cross Handicap Hurdle Grade 3 Cl1 3m110y    

Friday :

2:00    Tangle Teaser Top Novices´ Hurdle Grade 2 Cl1 2m110y BBC2       
2:30    John Smith´s Mildmay Novices´ Chase Grade 2 Cl1 3m1f BBC2       
3:05    John Smith´s Melling Chase Grade 1 Cl1 2m4f BBC2    
3:40    John Smith´s Topham Chase Handicap (Grade 3) Cl1 2m5f110y BBC2    
4:15    John Smith´s Sefton Novices´ Hurdle Grade 1 Cl1 3m110y BBC2    
4:50    John Smith´s Daily Mirror Punters Club Handicap Hurdle (Listed Race) Cl1 2m4f    
5:25    John Smith´s Mares´ Standard Open National Hunt Flat Race (Listed Race) Cl1 2m1f

Saturday:   

1:45    John Smith´s Mersey Novices´ Hurdle Grade 2 Cl1 2m4f BBC1    
2:15    John Smith´s Maghull Novices´ Chase Grade 1 Cl1 2m BBC1       
2:50    John Smith´s Aintree Hurdle Grade 1 Cl1 2m4f BBC1       
3:25    John Smith´s Handicap Chase (Listed Race) Cl1 3m1f BBC1       
4:15    John Smith´s Grand National Chase (Handicap) Grade 3 Cl1 4m4f BBC1    
5:05    John Smith´s Handicap Hurdle (For Conditional Jockeys And Amateur Riders) Cl2 2m110y       
5:35    John Smith´s Champion Standard Open National Hunt Flat Race Grade 2 Cl1 2m1f       


Source: http://www.racingpost.com/horses2/cards/home.sd?r_date=2012-04-12

[railtard1]

in

[typhoon13]

I will have a bash

[DUNK619]

I will have a bash

in money to same place as the last one?

[MereNovice]

I will have a bash

in money to same place as the last one?

Yes please.

[millidonk]

I would like to declare myself in. Think I still have your details saved so will ship later today. I think this could do with some shameless spamming so we can the sort of numbers we had for the Cheltenham one.

[tikay]

I would like to declare myself in. Think I still have your details saved so will ship later today. I think this could do with some shameless spamming so we can the sort of numbers we had for the Cheltenham one.

Good idea, but you'll have to teach me how to do that.

[tikay]

£50 (two entries) sent @ 7am today by Bank TX.