curious

Haven't had a tote bet so don't know about that but I use fixed staking FOB and haven't yet figured out how to get it to automatically enter that stake each time I bet like you can with other provider interfaces so have to manually enter for each bet or copy paste.

Yes, fair comment. They may not have credit cards but neither do I. Everyone surely has a debit card though. You can't exactly pop down to your local pubtab abd cash a check anymore. You'd think the TAB would have (at least since last year's lockdown, identified regular punters who may be in this situation and aimed some education/ promotion there if as a group, they are important as customers.

Globally last year, overall gambling reduced because of lack of access to land based gambling. In NZ, that had a positive impact subsequently on problem gambling. A post lock down re-assessment in June 2020, found that reduction in gambling relative to pre-pandemic was maintained, and that the proportion worrying about their gambling reduced from 17% during the lockdown to 11%.

I think if they can't be bothered, especially in lock down, we certainly shouldn't be relying on them.

Absolutely no difference for me getting bets on (80 odd bets since Wednesday) Don't see why Covid would change that.

Doesn't seem that long ago that NZTR thought Monday racing was going to save us.

Gosh. BF had over 18k win matched on the Foxbridge and 22k place. They'll pass the TAB tote soon at that rate.

Critique of Doshi. https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2021/08/31/this-waning-immunity-argument-against-the-fdas-covid-vaccine-approval-is-a-scientific-quagmire/

Sounds like Greyhounds could be gone. Horses might follow. Worse if we hold on and they include revenue from overseas greyhound racing in any prohibition.

I suppose it depends what you mean by "spelling". I don't see how you could do that for much under $40 a day and I also don't see how you could train one with a small profit for much under $100 a day.

I don't see how they could be more than paying their way at those rates if staff etc. are being reasonably compensated.

Cup meeting not far away but I still have not seen nor heard anything from the CJC and/or NZTR about plans for fixing what once was one of the better tracks in the world.

`Yeahh, costs have to be similar. Stakes here have to be way less because that's what we can afford based on revenue.

Nope. Just shortens the price.

Oz have the revenue from racing to support their stakes today. NZ doesn't have the revenue to support the stakes you cite.They need to be reduced. I thought that was the point? I missed it as well then.

Seems promising to me.

I agree. If re-opening is contingent on a substantial proportion of the population being in an effective vaccination status by the end of the year say, re-opening can't happen based on the current vaccine strategy and the evidence at hand. Even the short-lived re-opening strategy with Australia has failed miserably and any re-opening is as much dependent on the rest of the world as it is on NZ. We may be in our own national bubble for some time to come.

Why? Given that even freshly vaccinated, the benefit evidence against Delta is doubtful, if the current outbreak is quashed in NZ and there is no other and therefore no risk for say 6 months, it will certainly be largely ineffective by then, especially against any new variant. Already those who were vaccinated early, in Feb and March probably would have little protection against a new variant.

Isolated case but this sort of stuff keeps me wavering on getting the jab.

I haven't seen any media reports only the MoH release. However wouldn't a drop in testing rates likely be due to a fall in new close contact numbers and people experiencing symptoms, so be expected?

53 cases. All in AKL. No unexpected watewater results. We can do this.

Where did you see that. Not in my version that I can see.

Yes. However the authors covered that issue by noting that because of the very low sero-positive incidence finding, the 'n' turned out to be too low to analyse and compare sub-samples