From the files of @%#* me NZ TAB...

[Chief Stipe]

11 minutes ago, JJ Flash said:

Excellent bit of misrepresentation of the facts Chief Cockwomble.  You cant even get the organisations name right, its now NZTAB and has been for some time.

Buzz - Wrong as usual @JJ Flash

https://www.tabnz.org/

TAB New Zealand

TAB New Zealand (TAB NZ) is a statutory body established through the Racing Industry Act 2020 which provides betting services to New Zealanders and makes returns back to New Zealand racing and sporting organisations. 

[Chief Stipe]

15 minutes ago, JJ Flash said:

The NZTAB  does not publish Raceform

I didn't say they did.  But are you saying that TAB NZ (the correct name) doesn't or has never financially supported Raceform?

Or that NZTR don't or have never done so?

 

[Chief Stipe]

17 minutes ago, JJ Flash said:

Any assistance from old TAB was historical and the only thing the new NZTAB provide now is ad revenue as do the other supporters in your supporters post.

So the "old" TAB which is essentially the same TAB under the current CEO's management didn't fund Raceform?  Bollocks.  They certainly didn't contribute to The Informant.

Why would the TAB and NZTR need to advertise in Raceform?  

[Chief Stipe]

Further - from the 2019-20 NZTR Annual Report (the last time we have had any substantial financial information from the industry) - pg 9:

That was after they had refused to support The Informant in even a moderate way.  Since the demise of the Turf Digest and Best Bets the TAB NZ and NZTR created Raceform, funded Raceform and promoted it.

[Chief Stipe]

In 2019 there was over $2m allocated by the TAB to "Racing Form publications" - where was this money spent?  Was it all spent funding newspaper publication of fields?  

[Chief Stipe]

@JJ Flash

[Chief Stipe]

In the 2020 Annual Accounts - the last accounts published in full by the TAB.

$749k went to Race Form publications - I'm not sure but how many newspapers published race fields that year?  It was all funded from the Class 4 Pokie License revenue.

[The Centaur]

The TAB supplies the form pdf's directly for printing. Makes it a bit awkward filling the spaces so quite a few blank spots. The old Informant did rely on some Australian form input but it just would be totally uneconomical for Raceform to maintain their own database. Don't know how the $700k is treated but if you add the advertising, point of sale, form content etc its got massive TAB involvement. 

[Chief Stipe]

18 minutes ago, The Centaur said:

The old Informant did rely on some Australian form input

Yes that's correct because it was cheaper to get it from there than from NZTR/TABNZ.