Entain Edition - September 2024
| TAB Racing Club We’ve really been looking forward to the TAB Racing Club launching, and the portal on tab.co.nz will go live from this Friday. Any TAB customer can opt in to the club where they can experience the joys of ownership without spending a cent. Through the TAB Racing Club, club members will receive a whole host of benefits and the opportunity to go into the ballot for experiences. We’ve seen great success in recent months with our corresponding club, Ladbrokes Racing Club, in Australia. There are currently 18 horses (14 thoroughbreds and four standardbreds), with most of these bought at the yearling sales last season. Several 2-year-olds are getting close to the race track as we head deeper into spring. Find out more about the club's horses at the TAB Racing Club hub in the Punters Lounge, and if you’re a TAB customer, simply follow the prompts on tab.co.nz or through the TAB App from 12pm on Friday to join the club. |
| You've asked, we've listened When the new TAB App and website launched in late April this year, we asked for feedback, to ensure everyone had a place to share their thoughts and suggestions with us freely. In the first week, we'd resolved and released into production over 64% of the feedback supplied by customers, stakeholders, staff and industry. Others we needed to keep in our back pockets for later, and those have been making their way to the platform in the last few months. Apple Pay and Google Pay have both been added for quicker ways to deposit. Will Pays are back - as asked for - on doubles, trebles and quaddies. We've made design improvements, to make code icons more identifiable, tote clearer and the whole platform easier on the eye for accessibility. We introduced the Chatbot to get answers easily and quickly, and Easybets are coming back, sooner than you might think! |
| News in brief:The TAB Punter of the Year competition is back again at Hastings on Livamol Classic day. The winner will receive a $20,000 cash prize as well as $10,000 of Bonus Cash to place on The Everest the following week. Find out all the info and register your interest at hawkesbayracing.co.nz/punter-year.The NZB Mega Maiden Series provides great opportunities for NZB graduates all over the country to run for lucrative bonuses. There are five between now and the end of October, with a maiden 1200m at Te Rapa the next chance for connections to get a massive bonus on top of their maiden stake. Check out those races at nzb.co.nz/maidenseries.We share regular updates on LinkedIn around what’s happening in the world of Entain Australia & New Zealand. If you’re on LinkedIn, keep up to date by following us. |
| Racing interests: I had a share in a Snitzel filly called Londinium. This was largely a strategy to prompt my wife to put her name down, in order to have a crack at the women's ownership incentives as part of Magic Millions. It was a good idea but you need a fast horse as well to go with it. The girls named it and we got a few race days in - call it a win - and she did win a maiden at Tamworth! What excites you about the strategic partnership? The size of the opportunity is just massive. We're so privileged to be part of it and have the Entain playbook behind us. Even after just a year, it's great to have such an integrated team, and be able to share a passion for racing in particular. From a broadcast perspective, it's very cool to turn on the TV/Radio and be able to see it happening in real time. The race event I'm most looking forward to? This season, NZ Cup Week for sure. It's a fantastic week, and it really feels like the whole ecosystem of NZ racing is on show, with such a fantastic backdrop. As a bonus for me, my 40th birthday happens to fall on that week. |
