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LEGISLATION CHANGE REQUIRED (AS PER AUSSIE BOOKMAKING)
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From last Tuesday Racing Post in betting news, an interview with BetBright's Sportsbook Director, Noel Hayes:
Your chairman Rich Ricci has seemed impressively supportive: Rich is a fantastic asset. The public see his racing profile and how that lends itself to helping to build the profile of BetBright but beyond that the staff see his understanding and application of business strategy along with his mentoring. Why hasn't anyone in the Racing World pointed out the unfairness of this? Rich Ricci is happy to buy his way to success and yet I cannot bet a single penny on one of his horses with BetBright? I'd like to say to him, sorry Rich you can't enter the Champion Hurdle with any of your horses this year because you've been winning too much, then the Gold Cup, then another Cheltenham race etc and then when he still keeps winning other races he won't be able to enter any - get the picture Rich? It's incredible how he has the cheek to combine both roles. More cobblers from Hayes: Is there such a thing as a typical BetBright customer? Our research and data insight tells us the typical customer is one who values the enhanced product experience as well as the utility value of our differentiating products.  |
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This is all very positive we know it's beyond long overdue but obviously some cages have been rattled so we can now be a bit more optimistic
Ask yourselves this. Why was the limited and very clearly hands off coverage of these revelations exclusively in the industry media, and not the mainstream? I read the BHA Press Release, and while I don't know to where it was sent, it was clearly designed for betting industry publications, not for populist ones. More accessibly and aggressively disseminated, this story would have been a good one for consumer media, weekend publication money sections/lifestyle sections/consumer sections/business sections, Radio Four, Radio Five Live, etc etc etc, and so given the bookmakers a real problem. The agenda, it seems to me, is to keep these revelations very much in house - and given that the BHA get their revenue from a share in the bookmakers' profits, the racing media platforms get hundreds of thousands a year in bookmaker sponsorship, and those who work in the racing and betting media clearly get unrestricted betting, and lots and lots of lucrative side work, it's not hard to see why. The story here, let's not forget, was that, despite the fact that the bookmaking industry's PR and advertising presents completely the opposite picture, thousands of people are no longer able to bet, simply because they have achieved the only possible objective of betting in the first place. If you bet with Britain's bookmakers, winning is not actually allowed. Even if there is no mainstream media interest in that (which I strongly doubt) shouldn't every journalist in this industry who is remotely interested in reporting the truth have covered this story? Yet apart from a few exceptions (most of whom also work for the bookmakers on the side, incidentally), it was business as usual for the bookmakers and their PR men last week at Ascot (Tanya Stevenson (on the punters forum), interviewed bookmaker rep after bookmaker rep without once asking any of them about the very clearly damning research of which she is supposed to have been a part). Trust me, there are no Woodwards and Bernsteins in this industry. The only way the truth will ever be exposed on this issue is if punters make it happen for ourselves... |
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i was amazed at the lack of interest william hill shown at ascot ,each morning i went into there shop on the high street only to find euro 2016,overseas racing,that cartoon racing and slots machines been promoted in there shop thousands of people walking by and into there shop on the way to the races each day having to ask for prices as they were not clearly displayed.
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This is all very positive we know it's beyond long overdue but obviously some cages have been rattled so we can now be a bit more optimistic
Couldn't be further from the truth fatlad.........not even a ripple....  |
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IDKW I took your earlier post as a positive bud but haven't had a chance to find out where and what's been said or publicised by whoever
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What BHA press release millhouse? Do you mean an HBF one?
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Yes, HBF, though same thing isn't it, Paris Pike??
The chairman, who seems to be on punters' side at least, posted it on Twitter... |
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Moot point millhouse as to whether they're the same thing but I'm prepared to give HBF the benefit of any doubt fttb.
I do think however that HBF need to be more forceful. I don't see change being effected by negotiation alas. |
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Parispike, by that I meant that the forum was a BHA initiative.
I thought Stevetilly's earlier post was very interesting, and I can certainly see why the very smart people at the top of these big companies might be thinking that the current situation, where they are running daily loss leaders in order to trawl for losing punters, can't really be sustained. So while I'd have zero hope whatsoever that the largely corrupt media in this industry will do anything at all to encourage change, perhaps negotiation might have some hope... |
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Millhouse, these "big companies" will spout any old carp to retain the status quo.
More annoying is that the HBF are lending their ear |
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Must be some serious negotiations going on behind the scenes........
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