Tote Ireland Celebrate at Galway Festival

With only days to go before this year's Galway Festival, Tote Ireland plan to make it a festival to remember. This year they celebrate their 75th Anniversary, and in recognition of this they are guaranteeing their Tote Jackpot Bet for a staggering ?350,000 spread over the seven days of racing.

Coupled with this they will also give away two fabulous new Hyundai cars to one very lucky winner and also have a great loosing bet prize draw for a family holiday for five persons to Trabolgan Holiday Village in Cork.

Martin Harrell, Commercial & Business Development Manager of Tote Ireland said: 'We are delighted to be involved in and contribute to the magic that is The Galway Festival. This is a very special year of celebration for us and we really wanted to push the boat out with our biggest promotion ever for this jewel in the crown of Irish Horse Racing.'

Tote Jackpot Guarantees for 2005 Galway Festival are as follows:

• Monday 25th July (e) ?50,000
• Tuesday 26th July (e) ?50,000
• Wednesday 27th July ?70,000
• Thursday 28th July ?70,000
• Friday 29th July (e) ?50,000
• Saturday 30th July ?30,000
• Sunday 31st July ?30,000

Did you know?.

• Tote Betting license granted 1929
• First Tote Betting on 21st April 1930 at Fairyhouse. Tote took IR#5,035 on the day on Win and Place betting only. That year the Tote accepted betting on 87 race meetings and had a turnover of IR#100,000
• 2004 Record turnover of ?47.6 million, covering 281 race meetings in Ireland and 1,286 in the UK
• Tote to launch Internet Betting Autumn 2005
• In 2004 the average Tote dividend on all winning one euro bets was ?10.22 compared to the average SP dividend of ?6.99
• Largest single Jackpot winner = ?207K Leopardstown 20.11.1988
• Best Winning odds: 1177/1 Naas 30.11.1988
• Best Exacta odds: 8,107/1 Galway 01.08.2001
• Largest take single race: ?437,686.15 Galway 29.07.2004
• Largest take single race day: ?1,738,931.00 Galway 31.07.2003