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Mikey, have you ever heard of the NZ TAB actually restricting punters that are losing ?
Personally have never heard of this and highly doubt it would happen, they love the losing punters!
In fact they totally encourage it by giving them free bets to keep them going.
No doubt the turnover for today will be better than Westport which on day 1 was 1.4 mill, 11 races as opposed to 13 today and there was more depth in the fields too, looks like win pools were a wee bit ahead today, not much though, it's not the total turnover, it's the turnover average but HRNZ like to dress things up to make them look better if they can.......I actually believe the 5k limit on win bets applies to only Friday nights and major days, will that include Auckland on Wednesray?
If TAB are taking 5k bets on horses you scratch your head about they probably will as long as they lose, start winning, different story, probably by rights if a punter was losing a lot of big bets then maybe they should restrict you for your own good, whether they do who knows.
I am sure the tote pools would have been good at Mot today as they always are at this Xmas meeting.
They always get a great crowd when the weather is reasonable, that is not raining!
From Trackside viewing It appeared the crowd was not as big as many other years but then again it wasnt all that sunny, so some may have stayed home?
Most oncourse would be not regular punters and therefore were probably betting on the tote rather than fixed odds!
Still maintain that turnover could double what they are currently taking on harness racing, if they were to be accepting wagering from the punters that want to offload, rather than restricting them to significantly low amounts!
What are they scared of, as the odds are always in their favour?