![]() ![]() ![]() “We appreciate the importance of today’s race meetings, especially at Flemington and Rosehill Gardens, and are disappointed that we have been unable to give customers the experience the day deserves. “Tabcorp wishes to apologise to our customers, the racing industry, venues and other partners for the issues being experienced in the delivery of our products and services today,” Tabcorp’s managing director and chief executive David Attenborough said in a statement. The remaining seven races will now be held tomorrow. The metropolitan meeting in Brisbane was also delayed while Thoroughbred Racing South Australia took the dramatic decision to postpone its meeting after race two. Flemington, which was hosting two Group 1 races, continued on schedule until after race four when the Victoria Racing Club and Racing Victoria reacted by delaying the remaining races by about 45 minutes. The meeting at Rosehill was pushed back while Wyong was also delayed. On-course totaliser betting, which uses an independent system, at venues such as Rosehill continued unaffected.Īs a result of the drama, administrators from around the country grappled with what to do with their race meetings in the knowledge that betting turnover – and returns to the industry – would take a hit as a result of the outage. Some corporates also removed the popular totaliser derivative products such as best tote and exotic bet types.īetfair was able to continue operating as the betting exchange was able to manually “result” races. The problem was expected to have been rectified by late last night, but when ANZ Bloodstock News went to press many users were still claiming to have difficulty in accessing the site, well after the main thoroughbred race meetings had been completed.Ĭorporate bookmakers were also caught up in the outage, with many operators unable to “result” the races as the data feed was reliant on the Tabcorp system. Tabcorp blamed a major power disruption at one of its external data centres where its servers are housed as the cause of the “technical issue”, which also impacted its Keno and gaming products. ![]() The TAB “blackout” is likely to have cost tens of millions of dollars in lost turnover due to the outage. On one of the biggest race days of the year, Mackinnon Stakes (Gr 1, 2000m) day at Flemington which coincides with the Golden Gift (1100m) meeting in Sydney, Tabcorp’s wagering network crashed just after 11am (ADST), bringing the pari-mutuel pools and the organisation’s fixed odds betting to a standstill nationwide and having wide-ranging ramifications for the thoroughbred industry. Large item freight charges apply for heavy, large or sensitive items (i.e.Tabcorp, the wagering giant and biggest single financial contributor to Australia’s racing industry, last night would not be drawn on whether the company would pay compensation to the sport’s governing bodies after a significant failure of its betting systems yesterday caused chaos to meetings around the country.A handling charge of $25.00 + GST will be charged for orders under $500 (excl.Cold chain deliveries are free for orders over $500 worth of cold chain products (excl.A handling charge of $15.00 + GST will be charged for orders under $250 (excl. ![]()
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