Horse Racing Archive

Nick Xenophon has built a strong political career on the premise of being “tough on gambling”. His anti-pokies and anti-sports betting campaigns are known far and wide. But his efforts to ban online betting ads during live sports broadcasts has been has come to a crashing halt. The Nick Xenophon Team (NXT) introduced the...

Tabcorp has found a new way to advertise its Australia gambling products, and it’s raising eyebrows all across NSW. Giving away bags of jellybeans may seem like an innocent gesture, but it could also be construed as promoting gambling to minors. On Thursday morning, as rush hour commuters poured through central Sydney’s Martin Place,...

There are billions of people on earth. We all have different personalities, temperaments, and dispositions. It’s what identifies us an individuals. One man who’s easy to identify, due to his flamboyant and eccentric nature – and multi-millionaire status – is famous Australian gambler David Walsh. Walsh isn’t your typical blackjack pro or horse race...

If you’re 35+ years old, you remember the days before computers, cell phones and tablets took over your household entertainment. You know what it was like before the internet, before mobile casino games, before CDs and DVDs replaced cassette tapes and VHS movies. When I was a kid, we played outside. When it rained,...

Money laundering is a very serious offense in Australia. When an Australia gambling firm fails to comply with anti-money laundering laws, the penalty can be of near equal severity. Tabcorp found that out the hard when AUSTRAC charged the company with more than 100 counts of failing to comply with those regulations. Bases in...

The new Australian government is cracking down on its gambling industry. In an effort to curb addiction, new regulations will be enforced next week, restricting radio promotions of Australia betting odds during live broadcasts of sporting events. This doesn’t mean we Aussies won’t be bombarded with advertisements from live and online betting groups, hoping...

Twenty years ago, regional punters bet on regional events. They did so retail sports wagering facilities, and checked their local newspaper the following day for results. The world just doesn’t work that way anymore, as the wealth of information now available is driving the online bookmaker’s market ever skyward. While it’s the technology that...

New Zealand’s mobile sports betting platform, TAB, is currently limited to supplying no more than 5,000 different wagers on any given day. Industry head John Allen wants to expand that figure by as much as 20x, allowing the service to compete on the same level as international online sportsbooks. The TAB is operated by...

Casino gambling statistics for 2016 have, once more, named Australians the ‘biggest losers‘ in the world. Of the $385 billion lost gambling at casinos, tracks, lotteries, gaming machines and online last year, the US was responsible for the largest amount overall, but Aussies lost the most per person. Australia has a population of just...

The New Zealand Racing Board (NZRB) has been looking to digitize its monopoly on racing and sports betting in the country. That plan will finally come to fruition as NZR has selected NYX Gaming, a Canadian-listed interactive gaming systems developer, to supply its fixed odds betting platform. NYX Gaming announced this morning that it’s...