How it all works

Before The Event.....

1    If you are going to hire a projector, television for your event, try to obtain the largest screen that will comfortably suit your venue. (We can provide all the equipment, projector, screen, tote tickets and sound system if needed.).

2    Arrange for the ticket sellers and pay-out clerks to be visible to everyone in the room.

3    Have a good Master of Ceremonies.  Ideally this should be somebody that is a member of the organisation, is known to all the other members and is 'a bit of a character'! If not we can do this for you.

4    Select tickets sellers who not only do their job efficiently but have plenty of personality to encourage the punters to bet!

5    Do remember to give the ticket sellers and pay-out clerks plenty of change for the float.

The tote is opened and tickets sold. There is no limit on the amount of tickets that may be purchased. A film is then selected at random and the race is run. The money collected is split between the fund raiser and the winners.

An example of the money raised from the tote is as follows:

In race one: Horse 1. sells 10 tickets @ 50p = £5.00 Horse 2. sells 8 tickets @ 50p = £4.00 Horse 3. sells 16 tickets @ 50p = £8.00 Horse 4. sells 4 tickets @ 50p = £2.00 Horse 5. sells 15 tickets @ 50p = £7.50 Horse 6. sells 16 tickets @ 50p = £8.00 Horse 7. sells 20 tickets @ 50p = £10.00 Horse 8. sells 15 tickets @ 50p = £7.50 A total of £52.00

Tickets can be sold at whatever price you like 20p/50p/£1. You decide. If in the above example the £52 from the first race is split 50/50 then the fund-raiser would make £26 and the winning ticket holders would share £26. If Horse 4 won this would be £26 split between 4 punters which equals £6.50 each. If Horse 7 won then there would be 20 winning tickets with a pay-out of £1.30 each.

This is just the first of up to eight races.

We must stress that all the above is just a sample
to use as guidelines only.