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The Ones making the decisions arent really that business savvy! The tote turnover figures are grossly inflated due to all of this bonus bets and bonus cash otherwise the tote pools are shockingly lower than years ago. Of course there is more punters that bet final fields nowadays but these final field turnover numbers are significantly lower than they could be. The way the Bookies operate is very amateurish with restrictions, non allowance of punters on options and low amounts accepted on early wagering, as well as odds being slashed far too much. They do not want to increase turnover at all despite what they state or they would not be operating the way they do!!

Well I don't see where they have suggested anything else, certainly not geo-blocking, though I haven't read the report yet.

I don't think so. Not in well regulated markets like Polymarket. I don't really see the difference. If Entain have found 200 operators still taking racing and sports bets from NZ resident customers, then there are obviously considerable compliance challenges with the legislation that we have here too.

You only read the bits that you agree with. How do you offer better odds when your margins are tighter than the free loading competitors? People are punting on the product YOU provide at YOUR cost through bookies that contribute nothing to the stakes you are racing for. But then I guess racing horses is just a hobby for you.

He doesn't do any with ramps and wheel in showers so obviously not in your market.

Well the RWA are recommending "Lower costs. Smarter taxes. Better odds. More competitive products." which makes sense to me, but is the opposite of what they've done here.

Crypto is harder to trace.

Well how do you fix the leaks?

Yeah and you end up at a Working Bee of one!!!

I think the decision makers might very well be brain dead or close to it, unless their aim is to kill off the tote or racing altogether.

The Guerin Report interviewing Andrew Vouros CEO of Entain Australasia was a very good idea, as we hear very little from Entain and the NZ TAB . Surely it should be a more regular thing? Michael Guerin did ask some questions that needed to be asked but Vouros was quite vague at times and was allowed to get away with it! Where were the questions regarding North Island harness racing battles and where he sees it ending up? Of course he was never going to say Entain was pulling the plug at the 5 year mark but anyone with business sense knows what the answer is. Brad Steele was interviewed by Greg O’Connor a few months ago and he was more than happy with the way things were going with harness racing! Needs to have the serious questions asked again as everyone I speak to, have no confidence at all in the HRNZ decision making nowadays! Time will tell!

That's his business. https://www.facebook.com/ecocottagesnz/

He sells them. @Chief Stipe might still be on the waiting list for one.

What's with Col and tiny homes?

A bargain at any price, this Wild Night thing wouldn't be in the same street. Daryl's Joy beat Vain at level weights, second-rated a Cox Plate field as a three-year-old and won VRC derby in a hand canter. Bill Skelton's face lit up like a Whore House whenever Daryl's Joy's name was mentioned.

i watched the interview and my take was exactly the same as yours. The entain man expressed empathy and tried to create the impression everything entain does is in the best overall interests of the nz racing industry,but reality is you could tell from his words thats his focus is on whats best for entains bottom line.And so it should be,he works for entain. but whats best for entain is not always whats best for nz racing.A lot is but a lot isn't.Media and racing adminsitrators tend to mislead on that. and this entain bloke lumped all nz racing under the same umbrella. Well,we all know its different. we all know one of the major failings of the current hrnz decision making is they place the same weight on the relevance and importance of factors that apply to the galloping code as to applying to harness racing.This entain fella kept empathising the need for racing to be based around the main tracks and we all know gallopings main tracks are where the nz population numbers are. And we all know that perhaps the biggest flaw in the current hrnz leaderships thinking ,is they think harness racing should work the same.In other words our current administrators make decision making around what they think shouild be the main driving factors(e.g.population),ignoring the realities. so that entain man and entain will do what they do,but its what hrnz do that really counts,and most can see the current leadership are dreamers,not realists. as to entain cutting back on the rebates. the nz tab have been whittling away at that for the last 5 years,even prior to entain. people who say they should have a blanket restriction on winning punters on ff,really have no idea whatsoever of what they are talking about. I have given specific examples of why that type of thinking is ridiculaous. every punter has different spends and different pools they invest in and decisions should have been made around what was best for the overall tab bottom line,and that means have different approaches for different people based on the circumstances the same applies to the rebates. For example,if someone is getting $10,000 a month in rebates from tote spend,then obviously the tab will be receiving around $30,000-$40,000 a month in tote % takeout from each dollar invested,depending on what bet type the spend is on. So if that punter was say generating an average overall profit of $5000 per month ,which included the rebates in that persons profit loss ledger,then if the tab take aways the rebates,the tab have just made that person now return a loss of $5000. So whats going to happen.Your going to lose that customers tote spend and the $30-40,000 tab income that went with it.In other words to save $10,000 ,you cost yourself $40,000 So there is real bad down sides to the tab knocking the rebates on the head. It doesn't effect me. They reneged on a verbal agreement they had with me a few years ago so i just stopped betting as without the rebates,it wasn't worth the efoort. So your going to get people doing the same thing again,and amny of them are much bigger punters than i was.

I don't really see what the currency that people gamble in has to do with it?

I don't see in the article, where geo-blocking is mentioned as an option as per the head post.

Michael sits down for a rare chat with the boss of Entain Australia/New Zealand, Andrew Vouris, to discuss the business & future in Aotearoa, racing & sport wagering, & AUSTRAC. And a trip to Cambridge means a check in with Little Mickey G, who’s heading to the sales in January. Guerin Report – S2 Ep.12 Ft. Andrew Vouris View the full article

Cambridge Stud mare Jaarffi (NZ) (Iffraaj) posted yet another stakes placing over the weekend, and trainer Lance Noble is hoping she can be rewarded for her consistency with an elusive black-type victory over summer. The six-year-old daughter of Iffraaj finished third behind Qali Al Farrasha in the Gr.2 Auckland Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1400m) at Pukekohe last Saturday, with Noble believing her wide alley played a significant factor. “She went super, but the barrier draw (11) beat her,” Noble said. “From that barrier draw we had to go back with her and it was pretty hard for the horses to make up a lot of ground on Saturday. The track was perfect, but when it is a perfect track, the ones in front keep running and it makes it a little bit harder for the back markers. I think she ran the fastest last 400m and 200m, so you have got to be happy.” It was Jaarffi’s fourth black-type placing, having also finished runner-up in the Gr.1 New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1600m), Gr.2 Rich Hill Mile (1600m), and Listed Legacy Lodge Sprint (1200m), and Noble is hoping she can strike in her next start in the Gr.2 Cal Isuzu Stakes (1600m) at Te Rapa next month. “She is just so honest, it would be nice to crack one, but she is running well,” he said. “We have been patient with her the whole way through, so hopefully being patient might pay off.” On the undercard at Pukekohe, stablemate Mollify (NZ) (So You Think) continued her good run of form when winning the Franklin Long Roofing 2100. It was her second win from four starts since returning to New Zealand earlier this year, and now Noble is setting his sights on some loftier targets. “It was very pleasing, she looks promising,” he said. It was her first time over ground and once they can stay it opens up a few more doors. I am very pleased with the way she is going. “She has come back and has just matured with an extra year on her. She is finding her forte, which is getting up over staying trips. Hopefully we can get her towards something like the Dunstan Stayers’ Final ($125,000, 2400m) on Boxing Day.” Noble has quickly turned his attention to racing this week, where he will have a two-pronged attack at Te Aroha on Wednesday, courtesy of Kitten Heels in the Diprose Miller Maiden 1150 and Hot Card in the Diprose Miller Chartered Accountants 1150, while Group Two winner Habana and Frostfair will head to Ellerslie on Saturday. “Kitten Heels has only had the one start for a nice third. She is going the right way and should run well again,” he said. “I thought Hot Card’s last start was good against some pretty strong company at Ellerslie. I am hopeful with those two and Te Aroha is a nice track.” Noble is also upbeat about the chances of his Ellerslie contenders, particularly Habana (Zoustar) in the Gr.3 Great Northern Challenge Stakes (1600m). “It is set weights and penalties, so he drops quite a lot of weight with the conditions of the race,” he said. “I think he gets 55 kilos, which he hasn’t carried since he was probably a maiden. “I am really happy with him. Things just haven’t gone quite to plan, but he hasn’t been too far away.” View the full article

The top three finishers of last month's Fayette Stakes (G3) at Keeneland—Hit Show, Rattle N Roll, and Gosger—rematch Nov. 28 in the $600,000 Clark Stakes (G2) at Churchill Downs, a race Rattle N Roll won last year.View the full article

Like the conscience bookies and governments have.

When that get said that's when you get off your butt and show them youre a "doer" not a "sayer" @Chief Stipe !

More than 17 years after Thoroughbred racing shut down in Kansas, the sport will be revived in the Sunflower state in October 2026. It was all made possible when the Kansas legislature and Governor Laura Kelly passed a statute that will allow for 1,000 Historical Horse Racing machines in the state. Three-percent of the gross revenue from the machines will be devoted to racing. It is estimated that the state's race horse development fund, which will allocate money to purses, will receive about $15 million from the machines. The state's breeding fund will pull in $3 million. The racing will be conducted at Eureka Downs, which is in Eureka, Kansas, and has not held Thoroughbred racing since 2008. That was the same year that the Woodlands Racetrack, which was in Kansas City, Kansas, shut down. Initially, there will be 44 annual days of racing in the state. “We are ecstatic about this development, but this has been hard,” said Peach Madl, the executive director of the Kansas Thoroughbred Association. “We have been fighting to have racing again for so many years. We know we will have to find more owners and breeders and lay the foundation so that they will raise Kansas foals again. We only have a short time to start.” According to The Jockey Club, only four mares were bred in the state in 2023. The machines will not be at Eureka Downs but at a gaming facility named Gilley's in Park City, Kansas. Gilley's is on the site of the old Wichita Greyhound Park and was purchased by Phil Ruffin and his family. Ruffin is well-known for his extensive business ventures in the state, including pioneering self-serve gas stations and developing hotels and gaming facilities. “How did we get approval for the HHR machines? It has to be the persistence of the Ruffin family and that we were aiming to get HRR machines this time,” Madl said. “The HHR machines made it where Kansas, which is a total ag state, could have horse racing again. It's ridiculous that we've gone this long without horse racing. This is a state with a lot of horse people and farmers. This took persistence and a lot of money to get the HHR machines approved.” Madl said there is the potential for more dates to be added in the future. “Since the track is being renovated now, Eureka Downs didn't want to ask for any more dates than that for now,” she said. While, on the surface, it might seem that a track in a state where so few horses have been bred in recent years, Eureka Downs might struggle to fill fields. Madl predicted that Eureka will not have a major problem putting together racing cards. “We are fortunate to be smack in the middle of a circuit that most of the trainers run at,” she said. “That's Remington, Prairie Meadows and the tracks in Nebraska. We plan not to interfere with their races. There will be a pocket for us. We can be that place that fits in with what is currently going on.” Madl said that when it comes to racing, Kansas has a lot going for it. “We have nothing but open pasture ground here,” she said. “We have the room, we have the agriculture needs. We think there is room for racing to grow in the Midwest.” Though there is not a rich history of racing in Kansas, the state's Thoroughbred industry does have a claim to fame. Kansas-bred Lawrin won the 1938 Kentucky Derby and was the first ever Derby winner for Hall of Fame jockey Eddie Arcaro and Hall of Fame trainer Ben Jones. The post Racing To Return To Kansas In 2026 appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article