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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Decimated profit. And Dr Nick is not the only really big punter who has put his cue in the rack this year.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Richard Irvine pretty well led the charge to get MBL, which at least lets everyone bet, for now.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=276 height=864 style='width:2.875in;height:9.0in' id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D5B272.A5056DF0"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=352 height=864 style='width:3.6666in;height:9.0in' id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D5B272.A5056DF0"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=360 height=864 style='width:3.75in;height:9.0in' id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image003.png@01D5B272.A5056DF0"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>But what about this? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=343 height=134 style='width:3.5729in;height:1.3958in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image004.png@01D5B273.659367C0"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> Racing <b>On Behalf Of </b>norsaintpublishing@gmail.com<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 14 December 2019 11:23 AM<br><b>To:</b> AusRace Racing Discussion List <racing@ausrace.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusRace] Dr.Nick<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Has the increased tax regime had any effect in curtailing your activity, Len? <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sat, 14 Dec 2019 at 10:53, L.B.Loveday <<a href="mailto:lloveday@ozemail.com.au">lloveday@ozemail.com.au</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>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 "</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#382E2C'>shrouded in secrecy".</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#382E2C'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#382E2C'>I only spoke to him a couple of times, but enough to sum him up as a polite, unassuming person, and of course, smart.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#382E2C'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#382E2C'>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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>"</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#382E2C'>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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>LBL</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> Racing <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ken Blake<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, 13 December 2019 14:23 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'AusRace Racing Discussion List' <<a href="mailto:racing@ausrace.com" target="_blank">racing@ausrace.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> [AusRace] Dr.Nick</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#382E2C'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#382E2C'>Nick Aubrey finally revealed !!!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#382E2C'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;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).</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;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.”</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#382E2C'>KB</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p 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