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New Zealand bookmakers to allow successful punters to win more 13 August 2025 , Punters Info By Michael Guerin New Zealand racing and sports punters will get the opportunity to win more off the TAB and Betcha under rule changes coming into play on Thursday. The TAB and its new brand Betcha will boost the limits on what punters will be guaranteed to be allowed to win, providing more clarity for its most successful customers. Bookmakers around the world restrict their more successful punters to how much than can bet to win on fixed odds markets otherwise risk being cleaned out by professional or smart punters and those using complex computer programmes. To balance that some racing jurisdictions have what are called Minimum Bet Laws (MBL), meaning the standardized minimum amount punters have to be allowed to win on most races or sporting events. In some betting jurisdictions these are written into law or agreed upon with the racing and/or sporting bodies to ensure punters are given a fair go but in New Zealand the TAB has got out in front of that by setting their own MBLs. They only affect a very small percentage of punters because the vast majority of racing and/or sports bets placed here are for $50 or less, which should be automatically accepted without needing any vetting. But as sports betting increases its percentage of total New Zealand betting turnover and the market matures here, some punters could become more inclined to have bets trying to win upwards on $1000 on major sporting events. The TAB have moved to increase the MBL to mean over 99 per cent of bets placed should be automatically approved. For racing punters the minimum limits a punter should be able to win on a Saturday thoroughbred or Friday night harness racing meeting will be boosted from $2000 to $5000 for fixed odds win bets. That means a punter wanting to back a horse paying $2 to win on the fixed odds market in a New Zealand gallops race or Friday night harness race will be able to have at least $5000 on it. Or at least $1000 on a $6 chance, as the limits are on the minimum that punters have to be allowed to win on the bet, with both of those bets having a $5000 profit. Very few punters would, or ever should, approach those limits and increasing limits is by no means being marketed by the TAB as an incentive for punters to bet more. But it will provide certainty around what punters who do bet at that top level on what they will be allowed to attempt to win. For some that will ease frustrations and also ensure most punters stay betting in New Zealand rather than being lured to sometimes illegal overseas bookmakers, although that is not seen as a major issue in New Zealand yet. Punters who are not in any way restricted may be allowed to bet more but punters in New Zealand who bet to win more than $5000 on any horse race are a tiny minority. The MBLs for New Zealand thoroughbred and harness racing on other days of the week will stay at $2000, with those meetings having less overall turnover. The MBLs for Australian metropolitan thoroughbred meetings will increase to $2000, other Australian gallops at $1000, the same limit for all Australian harness races. Australian greyhound races will have a MBL of $500 on fixed odd win bets. The MBLs do not apply to place betting but it's understood in most cases punters will be allowed to win a minimum of $1000 on most New Zealand horse racing place bets. The $2000 MBL will now also apply to Futures win bets on New Zealand thoroughbreds and harness racing. Crucially, while those MBLs will be available to all punters they will only be for bets placed on TAB accounts, with those limits not applying to the newer second brand Betcha. For sports punters the MBLs will be to win at least $1,000 on named major markets in 12 sports, and the key fixtures/tournaments in those sports placed with TAB accounts. Betcha’s MBLs for sport will align with those available on the TAB sites but rather than being known as Punters Promise it will be branded as the Betcha Guarantee, for the same $1,000 amount for named major markets in 11 sports on those key fixtures/tournaments. The limits won’t apply to obscure sports, which are often only bet on as a novelties by New Zealand punters. Horse and dog racing will not be part of the Betcha Guarantee. The new MBLs, particularly the $5000 ones for NZ gallops on Saturdays and Friday night harness will be world-leading. They come just weeks after the TAB and its business partner Entain, who operate the betting business, were granted a virtual monopoly on racing and sports betting in New Zealand via a new law banning overseas bookmakers from accepting bets from New Zealand-based punters. So there is an obvious element of the Entain bosses recognising they are in a privileged position. The new limits appear to have been “soft launched” over recent days but officially start on Thursday.
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You’d have made a great driver galah, unfortunately the race doesn’t stop and go like a video, that’d be great, be like chess with a timer. Split second decisions with a 1/2 tonne animal travelling 50km. Sometimes you’re right and most times you’re wrong. There are always plenty of hard luck stories behind you if you win one. These guys just aren’t out there often enough to improve but at least they are out there, dos’nt stop me watching, sometimes the most exciting race of the night.
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I very much doubt you can change conditions after fields are published, they can after nominations to get the maximum field but surely not after a field is published. They should have not changed anything and just allowed the new rule to work (ie concession driver on so they can still start) if they knew about it, obviously not. That rule should be void for a maiden winner being able to start again against maidens, seems wrong. Own goal there.
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TAB, if you keep looking backwards you’ll get a sore neck. Canterbury not exactly flying either, need to remodel the whole god damn thing to survive. Addington will get pushed out in years to come, just the way things go. So what if the 70 yr olds don’t want to travel, they aren’t the future. Lack of numbers every metric so need a reset.
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Been hearing that for a little time now, only need 10 more horses, 20 more horses, now only need 40 more horses. On a declining foal population… yeah right. ATC should be looking further down the road and getting into bed with Cambridge, centralising there, and make whatever they have better, just not enough to go round to support the two there. This sunset industry we are in just needs to cut its cloth to the conditions it’s facing then it may stand a chance of a little bit longer. Golden days are gone, strong leadership needed.
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Don’t you just love an early crow Broadster? A wiley old driver once told me you have to be in front at the winning post, not before. ps you got that right there Gamma, that boy Herbertson can drive a bit.
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Loud mouth , boasting Australians get me everytime, going to win this, going to win that. Take a boxed F4: Carter x Wilson x Sam x Harrison, won’t be far away. Go the Kiwis!
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Looked like thousands turned away at Alex Park. Meanwhile, NZ Metro was going off with The Warriors playing next door straight after. Maybe thats the way ahead, combining events and feeding off one another. Food for thought
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Mark Jones World Driving Champion as well.
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PICK A SLOT Cambridge Night of Champions BOAY Friday Comp
Blackie replied to Gammalite's topic in Trotting Chat
That was awesome to watch , what a beast of a horse. Poor old Don Hugo trying his heart out and be spat out like that. I had the stopwatch on at home and only looked at it once I clicked across the line and thought I had messed up the marks looking at the time. Merlin flat(most of them were)along way from home but I thought went really well considering he needs a good trip usually, a pass mark from me, but Larry, WOW. Any breeder looking at that may have a replacement for Bettor's Delight's DNA. Have one for me Gamma. -
Think the horses are getting more refined like a thoroughbred young Brods, light carts, drivers more inclined to let horses run rather than sit up, and as you say, tracks are so much better
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Who wins the Drivers Challenge over the weekend? Cashed up and ready to unload. My money’s on the NZer, best driver in the world. What you reckon?
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Saw you’d already commented on this galah, good run down of what happened 👍
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Swayzee the champ would have slept well last night, great drive to beat him at his own game. Great race to watch.
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"admitted the charge", case closed.
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I reckon bottom right is Lennytheshark 😉.
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If the Kiwi’s can’t stitch up the Champ from there, we’ll never beat him. Have to worry about Swayzee from there when he comes calling as well.
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Touching a horse’s hoof at speed is enough to give it a little go fast, don’t need to be its hock.. just ask someone who’s driven one touching the foot rests or wheels.
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Desperate Comment Peter Jones Vic’s Vance beat him in the Hunter? Master Musician 3rd? Can’t think of the one Marky boy would have, had so many going around…thinking cap firmly on!
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I was a sprint champion at school, my full brother couldn’t run fast enough to get warm.
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That last one is Koala King, had me stretched Gamma.
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Village Kid
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Be Gammalite & Bruce Clarke bottom left with that whip action
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That was after they had to remove the ball and chain. 🙃. Never a better trainer (or driver) put a horses head through a bridle than Tassie
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captian hammerhead/ shepparton cup/punters outraged?
Blackie replied to the galah's topic in Trotting Chat
Hi Galah Only have to look at the marks on his white trousers to see what he was up too, hock, ankle, foot, don’t matter, Neddy will get a fright and keep kicking.