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The Tote, formerly the Horserace Totalisator Board and called in rhyming slang the nanny, is a British bookmaker with head offices in Wigan. It was owned from its formation in 1928 by the UK Government but was sold to Betfred in July 2011. Under the brand totesport the Tote has 514 high street betting shops, outlets on most of Britain's 60 racecourses, as well as internet and call centre divisions. The company is known for its pool bets such as the Scoop6, and is the only organisation in the UK which is allowed to run pool betting on horseracing. It has a seven-year exclusive licence from the date of the company's privatisation to continue offering pool bets.〔(Tote's Corporate Site: Privatisation )〕 The company has also branched out into fixed odds betting on other sports in recent years, as well as casino and bingo operations online. == History == The Racehorse Betting Control Board was created by the Racecourse Betting Act 1928,〔(Tote's Corporate Site: History )〕 as a statutory corporation. It was set up by Winston Churchill as a government-appointed board, with the intention of providing a safe, state-controlled alternative to illegal off course bookmakers and ensuring that some gambling revenues were put back into the sport of horse racing. The first major race meetings with tote betting were the flat race meetings at Newmarket (July Course) and Carlisle on 2 July 1929. Under the Betting Levy Act 1961 the board was reconstituted as the Horserace Totalisator Board (''the Tote''), with responsibility for the redistribution of funds to racing transferred to the Horserace Betting Levy Board. The Tote opened its first high street betting shop in 1972, and has since grown to employ more than 4,000 staff. Tote Direct was set up in 1992 to channel tote bets from other high street bookmakers into tote pools. Now tote betting is accepted in more than 7,000 betting shops across the UK (the majority of which are non-Tote owned shops) as well as via other online gambling websites. In 1999, the Tote linked up with Channel 4 Racing to introduce the popular Scoop6 bet which involves bettors trying to select the winner of six televised races. This bet produced the first horserace betting millionaire, a feat which has been achieved on several more occasions since. A record single-day turnover, in excess of £4 million, was bet into the Scoop6 pool on 22 November 2008. The Tote has formal pool betting links from similar organisations in Ireland, Germany, France, Holland, Cyprus, Denmark, Canada, the USA and South Africa. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Tote」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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