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  1. Chief Stipe
    Is that an off topic deflection @hesi ?
  2. Chief Stipe
    As Birchley said "it takes a very good 2yr old to win the KM".
  3. Chief Stipe
    I'd hardly call multiple Group 2 OZ winners "third tier"!
  4. Chief Stipe
    Wow what a crap field for the Group 3 Taranaki Cup. It used to feature the best middle distance horses over 2000m run in mid February. Now a hack race over 1800m a month earlier.
  5. Chief Stipe
    Really? In the hands of MPI? FFS they are too busy responding to nut case complaints about cows being too hot or too wet!
  6. Chief Stipe
    Geez and I thought you had given up or passed.
  7. Chief Stipe
    $500k wouldn't go very far fixing any track. Let alone the uproar if the "wrong" track was chosen. Fixing tracks should be the job of the Clubs that own them.
  8. Chief Stipe
    I'm not sure what your point is. You aren't exactly comparing apples with apples. For a start: Kumara had 9 races. Ellerslie had 8 races.
  9. Chief Stipe
    Self-interest rules always.
  10. Chief Stipe
    Ok. Never bothered to look at it before. Just started get ads for some reason. So what would stop the TAB getting a MGA license? Is the Government not going to allow ENTAIN to bid for a license?
  11. Chief Stipe
    But don't existing NZ Casino's have online apps already?
  12. Chief Stipe
    I'm not sure. I wish I had screen shot the advert. Can't find it again. But it was a casino slots app with a TAB logo. Got a feeling it was a scam using the TAB logo.
  13. Chief Stipe
    But you have done neither.
  14. Chief Stipe
    I thought the NZ TAB weren't going to get a NZ online Casino license? I saw and advert for their Casino App today.
  15. Chief Stipe
    That's not correct. Not half. The new organisation TABNZ with the approval of Government sold the sole license to operate wagering on racing and sports to ENTAIN. I've given up trying to explain that Fixed Odds increased turnover does not equal increased profit. For example if you were able to increase your turnover would you do so at a loss? You'd give up punting first or your family would seek help for you.
  16. Chief Stipe
    I don't know how many times I need to explain this to you. Yes under the Tote system the odds are always in the TAB's favour as they clip the ticket of every bet at a fixed rate. BUT with Fixed Odds they are just another punter in the market and theoretically they could lose money on every race if they didn't set their prices right. Yes they price the market in their favour but that doesn't guarantee they won't make a loss.
  17. Chief Stipe
    You assume that the jobs were real jobs. Cost efficiency only benefits the Industry. A shame this Government hasn't taken a bigger knife to slash the 15,000 extra Government employees employed under the last Government. The old TAB was run like a Government Agency and selling to ENTAIN was probably the only way to break that culture.
  18. Chief Stipe
    In most jurisdictions that I know of it is legislated. Very few agencies if any will not have some limits. Bookies are not in the game to go broke.
  19. Chief Stipe
    Increasing Turnover on Fixed Odds is not the answer. Increasing margin and profit is. What you are asking is for ENTAIN to increase Turnover by taking bigger bets at better odds but at the sure risk of losing money. How does Harness Racing win then?
  20. Chief Stipe
    Please don't encourage him Murray at this time of the moon cycle.
  21. Chief Stipe
    Who is the dominant one of the four? Self-interest drives most decision making and most of the time that is in the interests of all. Sometimes it isn't.
  22. Chief Stipe
    Bullshit. You are winding me up. What do descrbie as "laying in"? Did the inside horse run out and take CBL's line or not?
  23. Chief Stipe
    So in your opinion should have a Jockey have been questioned or was blaming the affected horse sufficienr?
  24. Chief Stipe
    @curious Stewards vision is up. Now tell me what you think and if it is different to the Stewards view.
  25. Chief Stipe
    Why?
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