Tote News

The Tote Ireland aggregates at Gowran Park and Navan at the weekend showed healthy increases on the corresponding cards in 2011.

The turnover at Gowran Park on Saturday was €108,831, up more than €3,000 on the same day 12 months previously.

And things looked even healthier at Navan a day later, where there was a 17 per cent jump in takings year-on-year.

The aggregate for Sunday’s card, which included three Grade 2 events, was €127,345, a rise of more than €18,000 on the 2011 equivalent.

Those increases in takings prompted some tasty dividends, including a €1,649 Placepot prize at Gowran Park on Saturday, a pot that was inflated by the result of the fifth leg, a maiden hurdle in which the first four home ranged in prices from 12/1 to 40/1 winner Ballynacree.

And with the Jackpot going unclaimed on both days, there is a tempting multiple rollover of €17,286 on offer at Punchestown on Wednesday.