The reason it is illegal is that Racing NSW
says that it would be helping other codes not Racing, also that by phone betting all bookies have a chance not just few who could set up sites.

jaffa wrote:
"The reason it is illegal is that Racing NSW
says that it would be helping other codes not Racing, also that by phone betting all bookies have a chance not just few who could set up sites."

Hi, I find that a bit hard to swallow.

Surely we're not saying we need phone betting only for bookmakers in order to protect an imaginary bookmaker who would be incapable of getting an internet site up and running with live betting?

Another dark ages law that hasn't kept up with technology.

This is another point to ponder, for the purist ( for lack of bettr terms) that wants to have a market that is soley structred puerly by the money on the market coming from the punters and,the logistics of operating the market is *not* centred on decisions based around stocks and shares but puerly the betting and racing fraternity actions from grass roots level.

In other words, when the TAB's had no other intervention whatsoeve,r (except gov,ofcourse)before computers, and before telephones perhaps, THAT is the market lost and probbaly gone forever.
Or, hypotheticaly if it ever re-eventuated, a TAB in eastern states with no other vested interests apart from punters,bookies and all that make up a race meeting and horse race industry, pure and simple.

To have decisons based around share markets, has no real connnection with the horse running out on the field, has it ?

Dreaming huh ?

Best Bookies does provide live on course bookies prices. The dissemination of prices has been restricted to members only in order to comply with restrictive laws in states other than WA.

Members see the prices offered by bookmakers on their betting boards.

I think the troglodyte state of racing and over protective [of profit] market has more to do with punting numbers, especially on the net., more than anything technological.

US/Britain has 10 times the number of punters than we have people, so the cake is huge allowing room to move. We have lots of races but no one betting on them [relatively speaking ].

Cheers.



[ This Message was edited by: crash on 2004-02-03 18:37 ]

Hi all,
Unitab radio can not give prices in qld either.