Tabcorp

A FEW years ago, Tabcorp’s boss (the previous one, not the current one) announced that wagering was a “mature industry” so he started branching out...

DO you know the RSPCA balance sheet shows a total equity of $100 million, which includes cash, term deposits, a share portfolio and investment property....

A BET on a greyhound race should be taxed more heavily than one on a horse race. That is what the NSW Racing Minister has...

NOT for the first time, Tabcorp and Tatts/Ubet have been talking about a merger, thereby giving the country a single tote-TAB operator. It was on...

THE onward march of betting operators continues unchecked. Tabcorp will continue to get bigger, with more international activity to please its shareholders and a compensating...

IT HAS now been eight months since the live baiting drama occurred yet there are few signs of the industry slowing down. Betting turnover, for...

QUICKEST off the mark with its FY2015 annual report, Greyhound Racing Victoria has recorded a $5 million surplus on the back of rising income from...

WHILE discussing Tabcorp’s results last week we mentioned that Tatts/Ubet was soon to report its own 2014/15 results. That has now happened and it is...

THEY don’t get it. They just don’t get it. With an exception only in Victoria (where proprietary racing continued until the 1950s) all states have...

TABCORP boss David Attenborough wants to thank all those folk who have switched to Fixed Odds betting in the last financial year. They were a...

HOW good a job is Tabcorp doing? We covered some aspects of this subject last week but space prevented us commenting on the international situation....

I HAVE to agree with many of the comments from reader “National Lass” (see The Worth of Greyhound Administrations, July 26), but particularly the uncontrolled...

THE latest data tells us that February’s live baiting and other hassles are almost certainly having some effect on what the dog population is doing....

IT IS enough to make a grown man cry. Or even wonder about your own sanity. So far, seven men and one woman have stated...

THERE is possibly no subject more contentious amongst greyhound trainers than the grading system. Over many years, including just recently in NSW, hundreds of hopes...

WHAT a night it was! Beaumont Park, Newcastle’s one and only greyhound track had shifted from its usual Saturday afternoon slot to an apparently better-earning...

AT A time when racing authorities should be pulling out all the stops to present a cleaner and brighter image to the public, they continue...

It all started in the late 1980s when SKY pictures of live racing arrived on the scene. It mattered little where you were, the pictures...

NOT long back I was critical of a club (I think it was Sandown) when it put on a race for female trainers. I suggested...

I QUOTED billionaire Warren Buffet the other day when he warned about “arrogance, bureaucracy and complacency” in business. Here’s one reason why I did that....

THE age old Abbott and Costello skit seems to be getting another run in the beautiful state. It’s becoming hard to understand how Queensland greyhound...

THE NSW government is proving to be far more aggressive than Queensland or Victoria in attacking the live-baiting scandal. While the others have enforced lots...

THE most interesting thing about Monday night’s cup meeting at Shepparton was that the second- and third-fastest runs of 25.17 and 25.15 were in Maiden...

The biggest worry about the SKY v TVN saga is not that we don’t quite know when TVN will fold. The critical issue is how...

The five-yearly review of the NSW Greyhound Racing Act is under way. This is a normal statutory requirement but has been pre-empted by the recent...