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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#382E2C'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#382E2C'>Nick Aubrey finally revealed !!!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#382E2C'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#382E2C'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#382E2C'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#382E2C'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#382E2C'>Waterhouse blamed increased taxes on bookmakers, which in turn meant they were offering worse odds, for Dr Nick’s decision to abandon Australian racing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#382E2C'>And he said the flow-on impact could be disastrous for the racing industry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#382E2C'>“What I do know is that Dr Nick has closed down his Australian operation,” Waterhouse told Racenet.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#382E2C'>“I suspect he probably accounts for six percent of Australian (racing) turnover so you would lose that straight away.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#382E2C'>“I think his turnover through totes and pre-post and Betfair would be six percent (of total Australian turnover).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#382E2C'>“It must lead to a drop in prizemoney.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#382E2C'>“The real problem though is that it is a symptom of a disease, the taxes are just too high.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#382E2C'>“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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#382E2C'>“Zeljko was the biggest punter in Australia still bets quite a lot, but nowhere near as big as he once did.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#382E2C'>“It is all in response to taxes.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p 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