If we took the best 12 performing on a revenue to stakes ratio, all mainly industry days and did some extrapolating based on an industry with 300 meetings per annum.
We would end up with
Total stakes raced for - 52,261,500
Total revenue generated - 460,752,600
Ratio - 8.82
Being positive as you claim TAB to be, think TAB man was often taking the piss, but on some things i aint but I'm sure the Auckland that was 25 or 30 years ago is a lot different to the Auckland of today, those same trends happening there are slowly drifting through the rest of NZ.