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With COVID-enforced lockdowns and crowd restrictions over, it’s time to dust off the logbook and prepare for another Melbourne Cup office sweep.
A sweep has become popular for those that have no idea about horse racing for 364 days of the year and we’ve got all the info you need to know how to run one.
It’s very straightforward. You put all the names of the 24 horses (keeping in mind one or more could be scratched before the race starts) in a hat or container of your choosing and one-by-one you get your mates/workmates to pick one out one by one.
Whoever picks the horse that ends up winning receives the grand prize.
You can also have a prize for coming second, third and even picking the dreaded last place (usually your money back).
The size of the prizemoney is completely up to you and your workmates but usually the buy-in is quite small $5-$10.
If you’re working with a $120 prize pool, a good divide might be $60 for the winner, $30 for second place, $15 for third, $10 for fourth, and $5 for last place to get their money back.
If you don’t have at least 24 people to be in a sweep you can always get people to select two horses if you have 12 or come up with another creative solution such as the closest to the win if no one picks the winning horse.
To actually do the sweep you can either write out all the horses names by hand or – better still – utilise the internet by printing off the readily available pdfs on websites such as Just Horse Racing.
An even easier way to do things is through Racenet sweep generator. All you need to do here is type in the names and number of participants and how much cash each person is putting in, and the website will pick the names out the hat for you.
If you want to skip the internet or don’t have a printer most daily newspapers will have an office sweep in Tuesday’s edition.
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