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NAP Competition Explained: How to Enter and Every Tweet

10 Nov 2026 · RatingTheRaces

The NAP Competition is our free tipping competition, and it runs every race day of the year. You pick 3 horses from the day's races: your NAP, your NB (next best) and your 3B (third best). Your picks are scored against everyone else's on daily, weekly, monthly and yearly leaderboards, and there are prizes every day. It is free for every member (Free, Premium and Professional).

If you have X, the competition plays out there too, on @RTRNapComp. Your picks go out from your own account, you get tagged if a horse comes out, and you get a shout when your picks win or you go top of a leaderboard. This post shows you how to enter, what you can win, and what you will see on X along the way.

How to enter

This is a full entry from start to finish, filmed on the Fairyhouse and Lingfield cards: 3 picks, 1 of them each way, then Submit. It plays without sound and the captions walk you through it.

Entering the NAP Competition: pick 3 horses, choose Win, Place or E/W for each one, and submit.
  1. Open a racecard. Hit Enter Today's NAPs on your dashboard, or open any of the day's races.
  2. Pick your NAP. Open the NAP box beside the horse and choose NAP. The counter at the top of the card ticks to 1 of 3.
  3. Pick your NB and 3B the same way, from any of the day's other races.
  4. Open your entry. Click the counter. Each pick can be Win, Place or E/W, and to be scored at the Exchange SP (XSP) instead of the odds shown, tap the XSP chip on that pick.
  5. Submit. Your picks lock and appear on Today's NAP Entries, so everyone can see who picked what.

There is no cutoff time. Enter whenever you like, as long as all 3 of your races are still to run, and you can get tomorrow's entry in from the afternoon before.

How you score

Each pick is scored as a £50 bet at the price you took. A winner adds its profit to your score and a loser takes £50 off it. A Place pick is scored on the place market, and an each way pick is half on the win and half on the place. Your day adds to your week, your month and your year, which is why you will see players described as +£665 on the day.

What you can win

Competition1st2nd and 3rdTo qualify
Daily3 days of free Premium ratings2 days and 1 day of free Premium ratingsWon by the top 3 on the day, if they're Free members
Weekly, Sunday to Saturday£20 cash, a £25 free bet, 1 month of Premium and a winner's mug50% and 25% off your first month of PremiumPlay on 4 or more days
Monthly£50 cash, a £50 free bet, 2 months of Premium and a winner's mug50% and 25% off your first 2 months of PremiumPlay on 15 or more days

Free members who play on every race day from Sunday to Friday also go into a draw on Saturday morning for a free day of Premium ratings. The full details are in Weekly and monthly winners' prizes and the NAP Competition rules.

Do you need an X account?

No. Anyone can enter, and anyone can win the daily, weekly and monthly prizes, with or without X. Free members without X tick Enter without X on the entry slip, and Premium and Professional members can submit straight away.

Linking X gets you more out of it:

  • your picks are posted from your own account the moment you submit
  • you get non-runner alerts on X as well as by email
  • you get tagged when you hit a double, a treble or the top of a leaderboard, and you can pick up followers along the way
  • Free members unlock a free 5-day Premium trial with their first entry
  • you can win the Saturday draw, which needs a linked public X account

What you will see on X

Most of these come from @RTRNapComp. Some go out from your own account if you have X linked, and our main account, @RatingTheRaces, joins in too.

Your picks, posted for you

With X linked, your entry goes out from your own account as soon as you submit: your NAP, NB and 3B, with a card showing the silks, the prices and your name. If you are in the weekly or monthly top 10, it says where. The first time you link X, your account also posts an I'm in tweet inviting your followers to play.

If one of your horses is a non-runner

We email you, put it on your notification bell and tag you on X, so you have time to do something about it.

The non-runner alert card from Tuesday 10 November: got a non-runner? Swap it and keep all 3 picks, in 3 steps, with 20 races still to run

Swap it for a horse in any race that has not started yet and you keep all 3 picks. The new horse keeps that pick's Win, Place or E/W, and you can swap each pick once. With X linked, your swap is posted as a reply to your entry tweet, so your whole day stays in one thread. See Replacing a non-runner for more.

A non-runner swap card from Sunday 8 November: Bowensonfire, a non-runner at Naas, swapped for Ballydonagh Girl in the 15:48 at Naas as the player's Next Best

When your picks win

Land a winner worth £200 or more to your score and your account tweets it with a winner card. Make it £400 or more and @RTRNapComp retweets it to everyone following the competition.

A winner card from Monday 9 November: Nobotheratall wins the 14:27 at Carlisle and adds +£507 to RaceStorm's score

Find 2 winners from your 3 picks, or all 3, and you could be named in the evening's doubles and trebles, alongside the horses that did it. Players whose every pick made a profit get a mention too.

The doubles card from Monday 9 November: 13 players found 2 winners, led by twinzzy on +£665 with Smokin Aces and Westin Pimpernel
The full house card from Monday 9 November: 2 players found all 3 winners, led by Davidbubbles on +£161 with Hello Judge, Cristal D'Estruval and Lady Jetfire

Going top of the leaderboard

The leaderboards move with every result. Go top of the week, the month or the year and @RTRNapComp announces it, with the top 5 chasing you and the prize you are playing for.

The new weekly leader card from Tuesday 10 November: twinzzy top of the week on +£807.50, £42.50 clear, with the top 5, £20 cash and a £25 free bet to play for and 4 days left

The weekly and monthly tables go out most mornings, so you can see where you stand and who you need to catch. On a Saturday, the last day of the week, the weekly table leads with Final Day.

Our main account shares the weekly top 5 as well, so a good week puts your name in front of all of our followers.

Winning a prize

When the racing is over, the daily prizes are tweeted. They are won by the top 3 players on the daily leaderboard, if they're Free members. Premium and Professional members already have the ratings, so a place they hold has no prize and it is not passed down to the next player. That is why some days show a 1st and a 3rd but no 2nd.

The daily leaderboard top 3 for Tuesday 3 November: Thorny2307 1st on £625, John polockus 2nd on £475 and mjr8591 3rd on £450

The morning after a week or month ends, the winner is named with the final top 3, and everyone who played is tagged for the next one.

On Saturday mornings it is the every-day player draw, and 1 Free member who played every race day that week wins a day of Premium ratings.

The every-day player draw card from Saturday 7 November: @pjocathain wins the day's Premium Ratings free, with 58 players in the hat, how to get in it, and the next draw on Saturday 14 November at 09:00

A nudge so you don't miss a day

@RTRNapComp wishes everyone luck each race day with the day's meetings. If you play regularly and have not entered yet, it will tag you while there is still time.

The NAP Competition card from Monday 9 November: no cutoff time, 11 races still to run at Punchestown, Stratford and Carlisle, 108 players in and next off 14:03 Punchestown

And when tomorrow's cards are in, it tells you NAPs are open so you can get in early.

The NAPs now open card for Wednesday 11 November: 27 races across Bangor-On-Dee, Warwick, Ayr and Dundalk, with the biggest race the 13:00 at Bangor-On-Dee, worth £23,919 to the winner

A welcome for new players

Played for the first time? At the start of the next week or month you get a welcome, along with everyone else who joined.

Share your day

Had a good one? Press Post Results under My NAPs on your dashboard to tweet your results card from your own account, with your day, week and month scores on it.

Run your own competition

Want to take on your friends? Set up a competition of your own and your account can tweet it, and players who join can tweet that they are in. At the big festivals we run special event leaderboards too.

Play today

It is free, it takes a couple of minutes, and you can enter right up until your races go off. Follow @RTRNapComp to watch it all happen.

Enter today's NAPs

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