Blue Square / Racing UK – Charity Tipping Competition – Week 9
After eight weeks of the Blue Square / Racing UK charity tipping competition Blue Square, represented by their PR manager Alan Alger, lead the way in the overall standings. A tied finish to week 8 lead to a nail-biting tiebreaker in the Cambridgeshire at Newmarket where the guest team represented by Talksport host and trainer Micky Quinn clawed a point back with his selection of Steele Tango finishing in front of Emirates Dream selected by Alger.
We now head to ‘week 9’ which will take in an evening All-Weather flat card from Kempton on Thursday 21st October and then move onto a jumping card from Ayr on Friday. The final day will take in the card at Aintree on Sunday. We are delighted to announce that the ‘Guest Tipster’ team will be represented by Quinn’s co-host on the Weekend Breakfast Show – Mark Saggers. He will be hoping to emulate the win of his fellow Talksport presenter and keep the charity of the Guest Team – Racing Welfare in the hunt for the £5000 prize. Blue Square are proud to be the official bookmaker of the Weekend Breakfast Show which can be found on 1053/1089am on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
BLUE SQUARE / RACING UK – Charity Tipping Competition – WEEK 9 / DAY 1
Thursday 21st October – KEMPTON (AW FLAT)
Selections as follows:
GUEST TIPSTER – MARK SAGGERS
5.40 – COCONUT ICE
7.10 – DHAAFER
7.40 – MONCKTON VALE
RACING UK – STEVE MELLISH
6.40 – ALUBARI
7.10 – HEROSTATUS
8.40 – BIANCA DE MEDICI
BLUE SQUARE – ALAN ALGER
5.40 – ROYALORIEN
7.10 – HEROSTATUS
9.10 – SPINNING BAILIWICK
CURRENT STANDINGS after EIGHT WEEKS
BLUE SQUARE 3 winning weeks
GUEST TIPSTERS 2 winning weeks
RACING UK 1 winning week
(Weeks where all tied = 2)
The competition spans all 10 weeks of Blue Square’s partnership with Racing UK with an additional 11th contest on the Tuesday of the Cheltenham Festival.
Within each week, three pre-arranged days will be selected based on the RUK schedule.
On all three days the contestants will select three win bets at the main meeting which will be settled to a £50 win stake on the unique Blue Square Starting Price.
The contestant with the highest mythical total at the end of the third day will be classed as winning that week and will have 1 point added to their annual total.
The contestant with the most number of winning weeks at the end of the 11th week will be declared the winner.
A £5,000 donation will then be made by Blue Square to the designated charity of the winning contestant.
The three contestants are tipping under the following names:
BLUE SQUARE – Alan Alger playing on behalf of Marie Curie
RACING UK – combined selections of presenters and their daily guests playing for The Injured Jockeys Fund
GUEST TIPSTER – various tipsters from the I-card, RUK subscribers, BSQ clients and sports personalities playing for Racing Welfare.