[AusRace] Dr.Nick

Sat Dec 14 12:26:31 AEDT 2019

Nick - that may be taken as if the "really big punter" is Irvine; not to whom I referred.

From: Racing On Behalf Of L.B.Loveday
Sent: Saturday, 14 December 2019 11:41 AM
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Subject: Re: [AusRace] Dr.Nick

Decimated profit. And Dr Nick is not the only really big punter who has put his cue in the rack this year.

Richard Irvine pretty well led the charge to get MBL, which at least lets everyone bet, for now.

But what about this? 

The POC was started by the strongest challenge to SH-Y for the dumbest politician in Australia, Turbo Tom, SA's then Treasurer - eagerly followed by other states, not the racing industry.

From: Racing On Behalf Of norsaintpublishing at gmail.com <mailto:norsaintpublishing at gmail.com> 
Sent: Saturday, 14 December 2019 11:23 AM
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Subject: Re: [AusRace] Dr.Nick

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 <mailto: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".

I only spoke to him a couple of times, but enough to sum him up as a polite, unassuming person, and of course, smart.

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.

"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.

LBL

From: Racing On Behalf Of Ken Blake
Sent: Friday, 13 December 2019 14:23 PM
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Subject: [AusRace] Dr.Nick

Nick Aubrey finally revealed !!!

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.

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.

Waterhouse blamed increased taxes on bookmakers, which in turn meant they were offering worse odds, for Dr Nick’s decision to abandon Australian racing.

And he said the flow-on impact could be disastrous for the racing industry.

“What I do know is that Dr Nick has closed down his Australian operation,” Waterhouse told Racenet.

“I suspect he probably accounts for six percent of Australian (racing) turnover so you would lose that straight away.

“I think his turnover through totes and pre-post and Betfair would be six percent (of total Australian turnover).

“It must lead to a drop in prizemoney.

“The real problem though is that it is a symptom of a disease, the taxes are just too high.

“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.

“Zeljko was the biggest punter in Australia still bets quite a lot, but nowhere near as big as he once did.

“It is all in response to taxes.”

KB

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