Bookmakers
Bookmakers. Everyone has an opinion. So what exactly are bookmakers all about and more importantly, do they contribute anything towards the running of the sport?
31st March 2015
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Bookmakers. Everyone has an opinion. So what exactly are bookmakers all about and more importantly, do they contribute anything towards the running of the sport?
The Gauteng Gambling Board have taken a resolution to hear Phumelela’s application to amend their Licence Conditions and adjudicate the dispute between them and the Gauteng Off Course Bookmakers Association
Tellytrack issued a press release confirming that the bookmakers’ urgent application had been struck from the roll with costs. The Sporting Post also received a memorandum from the applicants’ legal representative stating their version of events.
Bookmakers objected to an increase in cost for receiving the broadcasts – case dismissed in the High Court. The court raised a suspicion that Phumelela might not at all times have acted in good faith
A layman’s view of the recent public spat between racing operators and bookmakers
Are we the punters blind?? I certainly think not. What may you ask is the problem and its simple.
How can bookmakers sponsor jockeys and stables??
Theuns Botha writes: “In the on-going argument/debate between David Thiselton (Tote) and Tony Mincione and Basil Thomas (Bookmakers), may I ask …
Regarding Tony Mincione’s letter which asked why there should be a connection between a bookmakers business and the contribution towards owner’s costs, bookmakers currently have no obligation to pay the operators more than 3% of winning bets.
Gambling has been delegated to the provinces and we have to deal with 9 different gambling boards, with 9 different standards and 9 different procedures and 9 different tax rates
When one finds oneself having a difference of opinion, it is rather important to try and avoid such disagreement becoming personal. Basil Thomas hopes that he can manage to do that – as he certainly has no desire to demean or disrespect Mr Thiselton personally. The dilemma that he faces is that he views his response as so clearly a load of hogwash that it simply cannot go unanswered.
‘I called the owner and before I could even make the offer he excitedly told me that a certain South African bookmaker had just called 10 minutes earlier to make an offer of R5m’
