Is there going to be a Jan tipping competition?

The short answer is no. Unfortunately the sponsorship has run dry. We need R1500 to keep it alive. If you would like to make the sponsorship please PM me, and you can remain anonymous if you wish or use the good publicity to advertise your business. Why R1500? In December ABC kindly have paid my wife R1000 to run the competition and pay the winner R500. Should we manage to get the R1500 sponsorship, the competition will change slightly too. We will have a best outsider competition for January. Two of the rules will be that if a player selects a tote favourite, their selection will be ignored and we will score it as follows. Winners will be scored tote payout minus one, losers will be scored minus one.

If we are incredibly lucky and get R3000 sponsorship we will run two competitions in January, the new best outsider bet of the day and the current competition of best bet of the day. Should this happen I'll ask Bob to create a "Competitions" thread under the Main Forum thread so that the competition threads don't clutter up the "South African horse racing " thread. So let's hold thumbs in the hope that there is someone nice out there that wants these competitions to continue.

Are you serious? In October you offered to run a comp because you were not busy. Great. Now we learn that you have been paid to run it. Not great. Further more you want to run it again but need a sponsor. for 1500. Will that 1500 be paid out as a priize or is that the charge to run the comp.

My wife is actually getting paid to do it. I run three businesses and so really don't have the time to do it. If there is no interest we'll pull the plug on this, but some clansmen have told me that they really enjoy it. It does take time for my wife to do, about an hour a day, so I don't see why she shouldn't get something for running it should it continue. The break down would be R1000 for her to run it, and R500 for the winner.

I have run about 5 comps on ABC. My invoice is in the post

Some comments from clanners..


"Its been a pleasure competing with one n all. Its been good fun
Lucky thanks for the comp n I hope it will remain a regular feature on this forum"

"great stuff Lucky and I was hoping you would run the comp for another month at least
I feel its the best thing on the forum right now."

You don't get my point. It's a great comp BUT why should you get paid to do it when you offered to do it in the first place.

I ran it for free in October and my wife has since taken over because I couldn't find the time to do it. ABC agreed to pay her R1000 to do it.

In that case I hope that the likes of Magi reads this as he too runs comps. I do my comps for the love of football and to show my appreciation to Dave and Bob and whoever owns ABC for having this forum. Not everything in life has to come with a price.

My wife isn't keen on horse racing. So for her running a competition is work and is not for the love of the game. She prefers soapies to the GG's. I on the other hand love the horses and that's why I ran October's comp for free.

If we paying some 1 to run the comp then i rather not take part & save ABC the money, just my 2 cents worth

Each to their own. For me it is a labour of love.... For the sport of Kings (and C's).... But if for Lucky's wife it is a chore {shrug} then if someone is willing to pay her so the competition could continue....all good.

I did not take part as the format did not suit me.