Monthly competition on a big Irish race day or meeting?
Starting with Irish Champion weekend at Leopardstown on Sept 12/13th?
Winner of that picks the next event?
Anyone interested?
If there is enough interest, I wouldn’t mind running a competition for big Irish meetings, or maybe a mixture of Irish and UK meetings, but with a different format to usual TTC.
I have no issue with anyone running a separate Irish TTC, but I cannot comit to scoring it at the moment unless it was 1 or 2 a month. AKD, if you want to propose a format post it up so we can have a look to see if it will work.
Here’s what I am thinking. Have the competition for about 4-6 big race days each month, I wouldn’t be able to score more days than that. Chosen meetings can be either only Irish ones, or we can mix with UK to have half Irish meetings and half from UK. It will probably still be 1 selection from each race like TTC, but instead of points I am proposing that people can stake say £10 on each selection and more on nap etc. It will mean more work for the scorer working out returns, but I don’t mind doing it as long as it’s only few days a month. And then maybe after a couple of months, we can have a final (either in league format or knockout) of all the individual winners. This is just a rough idea, finer details can be worked out after we know there is enough interest.
If you are going to use SP then I would suggest limiting it to 3 selections per card. NAP selection gets double SP if it wins. If you allow selections in all races then whoever gets lucky with the big prices will win.