[AusRace] Dr.Nick

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Has the increased tax regime had any effect in curtailing your activity,
Len?

On Sat, 14 Dec 2019 at 10:53, L.B.Loveday <lloveday at ozemail.com.au> wrote:

> Dr Nick regularly dropped into the Randwick High Value room, presumably to
> check in with those who put his bets on, back in the "good old days". Not
> then "shrouded in secrecy".
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> I only spoke to him a couple of times, but enough to sum him up as a
> polite, unassuming person, and of course, smart.
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> It was amusing the day he "pinched" a bottle of beer from me. TAB provided
> free soft drinks in a small fridge for customers, and I'd bring and store
> beer there some days for "Beer O'clock", starting an hour before the last
> on slow days (and days with late finishes, and maybe on other days). DrN
> must have thought TAB had slipped a few beers in, and took one. I feigned
> outrage to my operator (who used to be my Beer O'clock drinking partner)
> and she said, close to panic, "Don't say anything, he'd be so embarrassed"
> - a sign of the respect people had for him.
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> "And he said the flow-on impact could be disastrous for the racing
> industry". Or not - depends to an extent on what those who now get better
> dividends do with the extra cash in their pockets.
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> LBL
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> *From:* Racing *On Behalf Of *Ken Blake
> *Sent:* Friday, 13 December 2019 14:23 PM
> *To:* 'AusRace Racing Discussion List' <racing at ausrace.com>
> *Subject:* [AusRace] Dr.Nick
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> Nick Aubrey finally revealed !!!
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> Bookmaker Rob Waterhouse estimates the exit of the mysterious professional
> punter known as Dr Nick from Australian racing will cause a stunning six
> percent drop in turnover on racing across the board.
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> It has been said that Dr Nick, whose strength has partly stemmed from his
> anonymity, is a big whale punter in the realm of Zeljko Ranogajec who has
> bet perhaps billions of dollars on Australian racing.
>
> Waterhouse knows Dr Nick, whose identity is shrouded in secrecy, and says
> he has “closed down his Australian operation” which employed a large staff
> across many betting syndicates.
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> Waterhouse blamed increased taxes on bookmakers, which in turn meant they
> were offering worse odds, for Dr Nick’s decision to abandon Australian
> racing.
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> And he said the flow-on impact could be disastrous for the racing industry.
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> “What I do know is that Dr Nick has closed down his Australian operation,”
> Waterhouse told Racenet.
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> “I suspect he probably accounts for six percent of Australian (racing)
> turnover so you would lose that straight away.
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> “I think his turnover through totes and pre-post and Betfair would be six
> percent (of total Australian turnover).
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> “It must lead to a drop in prizemoney.
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> “The real problem though is that it is a symptom of a disease, the taxes
> are just too high.
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> “It is not just him, Sean Bartholomew has been the biggest punter at the
> races but now he has become a much smaller punter and concentrates on
> England and America.
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> “Zeljko was the biggest punter in Australia still bets quite a lot, but
> nowhere near as big as he once did.
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> “It is all in response to taxes.”
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> KB
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