Tote Ireland |
Industry | Gambling |
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Founded | 1929 |
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Headquarters | Kildare, Ireland |
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Key people | - Nicky Hartery
(Chairman) - Suzanne Eade
(Chief Executive Officer)
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Products | Pool betting, sports betting |
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Owner | Horse Racing Ireland |
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Website | www.tote.co.uk |
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Tote Ireland is an Irish gambling company founded in 1929. It is Ireland’s largest pool betting operator. Its product offering also includes sports betting. Business operations are led from its headquarters in Kildare.
Since 1945, Tote Ireland has been owned by Horse Racing Ireland, formerly known as the Racing Board. It has responsibility for the operation of Tote retail outlets across all 24 racecourses in Ireland.
In April 2020, Tote Ireland entered into a seven-year strategic partnership with British gambling company, The Tote.[1][2] In the same year, Tote Ireland became a member of the newly created World Tote Association, along with 20 other Tote operators from around the world.[3]
Tote Pools
Tote Ireland operates the following pools:
- Win - Runner must finish first.
- Place - Runner must finish within the first two places (in a 5-7 runner race), three places (8-15 runners and non-handicaps with 16+ runners) or four places (handicaps with 16+ runners). (From 23 April 2000 to 23 May 2010, Tote Ireland operated 4-place betting on ALL races with 16 or more runners.)
- Each-way - Charged and settled as one bet to win and another bet to place (for example, a punter asking for a bet of "five euro each way" will be expected to pay ten euro.)
- Jackpot - Pick the winners of races 3-6.
- Pick Six - Pick the winners of races 1-6 (introduced on 9 January 2011).
- Placepot The bettor must correctly pick one horse to place in each of the races 1-6.
- Exacta - The bettor must correctly pick the two runners which finish first and second, in the correct order.
- Trifecta - The bettor must correctly pick the three runners which finish first, second, and third, in the correct order (introduced on 26 May 2010 replacing the Trio, which allowed the selections to be in any order).