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Yes they want more turnover but if that turnover comes at the expense of a lower yield then no they do not want that. If the TAB turns over $1 billion at a 20% yield, its gross profit is $200 million. Now remove restrictions. Turnover lifts to $1.4 billion, but with smarter money in play the yield drops to 13%. That produces a gross profit of $182 million. So despite an extra $400 million in turnover, the TAB actually makes around $18 million less. That’s why TAB operators obsess over yield, not just turnover and why lifting restrictions isn’t automatically the answer to lifting turnover.

January is the first month there are no end of month rebates for Entain Elite customers so that will be having an impact on turnover as well. The bigger punters will wait to see what offerings they get at the beginning of February in the way of bonus bets etc and if it isn't up to expectations then I suspect turnover will go way lower in the coming months.

Seems they are doing quite well shooting themselves in the foot without having to throw them on the bonfire.

Hey Brodie they do look at this site after all lol. Website updates - fixed odds and Harness 5000 Fixed odds prices have been temporarily removed from the HRNZ website due to a technical issue impacting functionality. Work is underway to make the necessary improvements and fixed odds are expected to return to the website once a solution is implemented. The fixed odds are still available on tab.co.nz.

When Greg Oconnor asked Peden about recent turnovers last night on the box seat Peden reacted like a man who had just opened a power bill he wasn't expecting. Out came the familiar “economic downward pressure” explanation for the disappointing numbers. I suspect most punters were behaving much like I was. The bad turnover was in fact the result of smaller fields than usual probably due to bad programming, so I turned over barely a quarter of what I normally would over that period.

It is interesting to note the stewards for Hawera were K Coppins (Chairman), S Mulcay, C Lomey, B Bateup

How this race was not called off or horses who were badly hampered not late scratched is anybody's guess. These days if a horse falls at most tracks and continues running in the field the race is called off immediately. Guess they didn't get the memo at Hawera. To me it looked like Kate Coppins was more interested in looking at what other drivers closer to the fence were doing rather than steering her own horse straight and in doing that drifted into the horse Becker causing her own horse to gallop and dislodge Beckers driver. I thought she would have gotten a holiday for the drive. I would like to see the head on for clarification.

How did they have Leap To Fame 1.50 vs 2.20 Kingman at Shepparton when Kingman had sat outside him and beat him over distance in their previous two clashes with worse draws and had the better draw this time. I thought the 2.20 was a gift.

I have emailed them a couple of times but anything hard or awkward and they never get back to you.

Seems to be the odds disappear at night and reappear in the morning. Will be some retarded reason why but who knows with this lot.

Who would have believed a House Quaddie would pay 3K for a $2 spend. That made my day pretty good.

How come the payouts at Marlborough have been super fast with payouts for all bets noticeably faster than most other tracks which can take 10mins or more? Big kudos to Marlborough for making this happen and to all other tracks l challenge you to get your payouts confirmed as fast as Marlborough because as of now you are running a distant second.

I have spotted a few mistakes by HRNZ and Entain lately mainly with their comments for the horses previous performances.

But the optimum field number for the wagering sweet spot is 11 -14 so mile racing goes totally against their desire to increase field size for max betting revenue.

If welfare is the genuine concern why isn't there either a total prohibition on greyhound wagering, or a transparent explanation of why Australian racing meets a standard that New Zealand racing supposedly cannot. Has anyone directly responsible for the banning been cornered and questioned about this? I imagine it would lead to some awkward umming and aahing.

All tracks will soon be all mile racing Brodie. Happening everywhere https://harnesslink.com/australia/carnival-of-miracles-goes-all-in-on-mile-racing/

Fleet’s Pocket has left eighteen foals of racing age and fifteen have won races. That must be some sort of record you would think for either Harness or Thoroughbred horses https://harnesslink.com/new-zealand/the-mighty-flying-fleets-pocket/

And there is more than 30 minutes between each race. That will put a few off. $600 on the tote place and $1000 in the quinella pool for the first race not great reading either.

Haven't heard much of anything from him for the last few months

Would have to be a manual all-up as TAB did away with all-up betting a while ago.

Almost all the horses in that race are very good beginners so that helps as well.

Just make it up as you go should be their motto as that is what happens most of the time.

Terrible track for betting on. Hard watch if you are on the horse in the trail and it never gets a go. One of the few tracks I will not have a bet on now.

Abernethy can rate a horse in front and I used to back him all the time when they had the grass track racing in the North. Got some big collects as he always paid great money. I find the Nicky Chilcott stable difficult to line up. She goes through strong patches where all her horses are firing, then long periods, like the last three weeks, where the form drops away. Wait until one shows form then back them all.

Upstage into Andarta multi with the driver change was good value. Be interesting to see what Iron Heart does although that field does look a bit stronger.