THE Aintree Tipster Competition 2013

[MereNovice]

Spreadsheet link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aia1Hxq-NDNWdEVQeWdSWUYzbXZkTktjZHV6WEdEckE#gid=0

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 4th 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 4th April to Saturday 6th April 2013.

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 SP favourite (lowest racecard number if there are joint/co favourites).
I will take instructions for "random" selections (e.g. first horse alphabetically) for each race if you do not have the time/inclination to make your own selections but, in a rather dictatorial manner, I am not going to allow selections such as "pick the SP favourite for every race" or attempts to circumvent this rule.

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 the spreadsheet by 1:30pm that day.
If I do not receive your entry by 1pm I will pick a (win only) random horse for you in each race. Note that these selections will be genuinely random.

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]

<reserved for rule clarifications>

A. In the event of only one horse being show in the result on https://gg.com/racing/, all e/w tips will be converted to a "win only" bet.

[MereNovice]

Those who have expressed an interest so far are:

Biddy 62                PAID     DAY1    DAY2    DAY3
Big_D                   PAID     DAY1    DAY2    DAY3
bobby1                 PAID     DAY1    DAY2    DAY3
BorntoBubble         PAID     DAY1    DAY2    DAY3
Doobs                  PAID     DAY1    DAY2    DAY3
Dubai                   PAID     DAY1    DAY2
edgascoigne         PAID     DAY1    DAY2    DAY3
Eso Kral                PAID     DAY1    DAY2    DAY3
EvilPie                PAID     DAY1    DAY2
horseplayer          PAID     DAY1    DAY2    DAY3
Jakally                PAID     DAY1    DAY2    DAY3
Karabiner              PAID     DAY1    DAY2    DAY3
MahoganyVic         PAID     DAY1    DAY2    DAY3
redsimon              PAID     DAY1    DAY2   DAY3
Simon Galloway     PAID     DAY1    DAY2    DAY3
StuartHopkin          PAID     DAY1    DAY2
Tal                       PAID     DAY1    DAY2    DAY3
tikay                     PAID     DAY1    DAY2    DAY3
typhoon13             PAID     DAY1    DAY2    DAY3
youthnkzR            PAID     DAY1    DAY2     DAY3

Nico29


I will update this post as entrance fees and each day's selections are received.

[MereNovice]

The races that will be used for this competition are:


Thursday 4th April 2013
Time           Race      
14.00pm   Matalan Anniversary 4-Y-O Novices' Hurdle   Grade1   
14.30pm   Aintree Hurdle   Grade 1   
15.05pm   Betfred Bowl   Grade 1   
15.40pm   John Smith's Fox Hunters Chase   Class 1   
16.15pm   Matalan Red Rum Chase   Grade 3   
16.50pm   Betfred Manifesto Novices' Chase   Grade 2   
17.25pm   Silver Cross Handicap Hurdle   Listed   


Friday 5th April 2013
Time           Race      
14.00pm   John Smith's Top Novices' Hurdle   Grade 2   
14.30pm   John Smiths Mildmay Novices' Chase   Grade 2   
15.05pm   John Smith's Melling Chase   Grade 1   
15.40pm   John Smith's Topham Chase   Listed   
16.15pm   John Smith's Sefton Novices' Hurdle   Grade 1   
16.50pm   John Smiths Mirror Handicap Hurdle   Grade 3   
17.25pm   John Smith's Mares Open Flat Race   Listed   


Saturday 6th April 2013
Time           Race      
13.45pm   John Smith's Mersey Novices' Hurdle   Grade 2   
14.15pm   John Smith's Maghull Novices' Chase   Grade 1   
14.50pm   Liverpool Hurdle   Grade 1   
15.25pm   John Smith's Handicap Chase      
16.15pm   John Smith's Grand National   Grade 3   
17.10pm   John Smith's Handicap Hurdle   Grade 2   
17.40pm   John Smith's Champion Open Flat Race   Grade 3   

[tikay]

Top man Vince, thank you.

I shall try & do some spammage hither & thither.

[tikay]

IN

Algorithm design about to commence.

[Karabiner]

Oh go on then, you are awful but I like you...

[Tal]

Will be in for the duration as is only proper.

I need to make a few minor alterations to my system.

I'll get a hammer.

[Nico29]

In.

[redsimon]

in and sharpening pin

[Simon Galloway]

Went back to the drawing boards after Cheltenham to work out what went wrong.  Finally found it.  In an innocuous corner of an innocuous subset of my algorithm, I carelessly used Log rather than ln.  Schoolboy mistake.  Needless to say, it is corrected, rebuilt and ready to go.

INNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN.

[tikay]

Went back to the drawing boards after Cheltenham to work out what went wrong.  Finally found it.  In an innocuous corner of an innocuous subset of my algorithm, I carelessly used Log rather than ln.  Schoolboy mistake.  Needless to say, it is corrected, rebuilt and ready to go.

INNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN.

Incredibly, I msde EXACTLY the same mistake.

[tikay]

Entry Fee PAID

[bobby1]

Went back to the drawing boards after Cheltenham to work out what went wrong.  Finally found it.  In an innocuous corner of an innocuous subset of my algorithm, I carelessly used Log rather than ln.  Schoolboy mistake.  Needless to say, it is corrected, rebuilt and ready to go.

INNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN.

Incredibly, I msde EXACTLY the same mistake.

Having studied your post I can see you have a rogue S in there.

[bobby1]

In, cheers for running the comp Vince.