While UK Sports Minister Gerry Sutcliffe stated that if the Tote will be sold on the open market, 50 per cent of the sale price will go to the horseracing industry, and just as the British Horseracing Authority called on UK bookmakers to make a bigger contribution to the racing industry, Chris Bell, CEO of Ladbrokes, said the bookmaker no longer supports the levy system. “Our view is that it is an outdated mechanism that has to go,” Bell said.