Nowornever

Easy enough to bypass but you need an Australian bank account to be able to do it.

I agree. Throwing more races at the problem doesn't fix it. It is a band aid that could backfire. Horses need a break and winter used to be the best time to do it.

Don't get me wrong I can get a bet on but it is not worth me doing so. Yes the fields are easier to predict but the risk is not worth the reward so I will not bet like many others. Yes you will still get the "bet on two flies running up the wall compulsive gamblers" having a go and I suppose Entain is relying on those punters keeping these meeting viable.

Bigger fields better and the stats prove it. The meetings with the highest turnover are mostly grass tracks. Why? Harder to pick and you need to spend more money to cover the field with exotic bets and therefore the dividends are by default larger. More horses means possibly more moves in a race making them harder to predict. Most punters I know have a bet to make money not throw it away. Hard to make money if the dividends are prohibitive to actually giving you a chance to make a profit. Lower number of horses in a race = lower dividends. Simple math. That is why big fields on grass are all the rage in New Zealand. Everyone is trying to get a slice of those $20,000 first fours and $8000 trifectas. Not to mention the $20,000 quaddies. We don't want the $20 trifectas and $50 first fours the fields at Cambridge are going to throw up tonight. Why risk your money for no reward. Once again the stats will prove it. No one will bet at this meeting the turnover will be proof of that.

If you call a five race meeting fun with none of the fields having more than 8 horses and one of those 5 races a five horse field, then good luck to you. There is no way I am betting at that load of shite and I am willing to bet that is a losing meeting for funding with the turnover nowhere near covering the cost of running it. People may be having fun at their sport but I suppose the people on the Titanic were having fun at some stage too.

So Entain guarantee on retaining staff until June 2025 is almost up. What other goodies are about to hit in June 2025 via the same arrangement?

The fields this week up north can only be described as an abortion. I will not touch them. They are an embarrassment.

I like the standing starts bad or not I do not care.

Letting that same punter give some back.

They tip half the field and when one wins they claim it like it was the only one they talked about. Funny thing is if you mention half the field and still can not get the winner that shows how good you really are.

McGrath cannot hold a trainer’s or driver’s licence and he cannot act as a stable representative or make official decisions on behalf of a training operation. He is allowed to be at a licenced person’s property, but cannot be involved in the training of any horse. If he is at a licenced person’s property and happens to say that horse looks a bit fat you should increase it's work, would he be breaking the rules? Can he touch a horse? Is he wearing a wire? This is impossible to enforce.

Correct

In the case of boys get paid I think Entain are using this as a marketing ploy rather than letting them win an obscene amount of money. If they started winning regularly then pretty sure the bets would dry up. Being known to the business, betting big and winning regularly is a sure fire way to get cut off immediately.

Absolutely! If this punter has been known to lose big bets in the past then they would be welcomed to place big bets with open arms. It would depend on a few things. Amount of liability in the pool on other runners. The success rate of the punters previous bets. If the punter was an owner of the horse they would be afforded some special treatment and also a few % over the figure quoted, so they might get 3.50 instead of 3.20 as an example depending on a few things like if they were already in an élite program with Entain. The TAB loss could have been higher than 80K if this was the case.

A before and after. He might not have aged well. Nigel before the trial and what he might look like now after 4 years of worry, embarrassment and stress.

Yes feels like it has dragged on for ages. Probably felt like decades for McGrath

Pretty easy to work out who placed the bet

Normally three because a gallops one always gets abandoned nine times out of ten lol

Yes Arcee Phoenix has mainly raced over sprints but did break the New Zealand record over 2200m on a slushy track beating Bet N Win when he won here in what I though was a good staying run, but 3157m might be too far. Bet N Win proven over the distance but I think the final might come down to draws on that track so a real guess at this early stage.

Fate Awaits probably, and Leap To Fame definite yes but hard to see how they will beat Bet N Win or Arcee Phoenox on a leaders track in the trotters final

John Dunn has driven it now 6 times for three wins and three good runs from terrible draws I remember an interview with Lionel Dobbs after the first of the Dunn wins where he said it was going too well for me to drive it so I thought I better put John on. I backed it on the premise he might be doing the same again. If the bookies were any good they would have had it sub 10.00 on opening just in case. The driver change alone without the background info should have made it sub 15.00 on opening.

Ben from Betcha on TV today. "We may have missed the driver change on Betterthandiva when pricing this market." FFS no wonder they are so easy to beat if they can not even notice a driver change on a runner. And yes the $31 was delicious. Keep them coming.

To lift turnover further we will now be racing everyday of the week. There will possibly only be four and five horse fields but at least the turnover is up lol

Unfortunately that's what the restrictions have become. If you look likely there might be a chance you are possibly able to make money in anyway shape or form in Australia they will cut you off. It was only a matter of time before that happened here as well.

It honestly feels like they're going out of their way now to swing the pendulum in the complete opposite direction to your hopes there Brodie. Instead of addressing your core issue (fairness and ethical), they're doubling down on selective treatment, almost as if to make a point.