Official Result Changed

TAB is taking all possible steps to ensure customers do not suffer any financial prejudice arising from the official result for the last race at Flamingo Park yesterday being changed.
The National Horseracing Authority (NHRA) mistakenly declared a triple dead heat for third place in Race 9 and only corrected the error some 10 minutes after the official result had been posted.
TAB initially paid out according to the original official result and then had to amend the result and payouts in terms of the corrected official result, which was 2 Poster Girl first, 6 Crown Charka second, dead heat for third 3 What A Sarah and 13 Meet The Logans.
The corrected official result obviously caused significant changes to winning combinations and payouts initially declared for the Place, Swinger, Trifecta, Quartet and Place Accumulator pools.
Although in no way to blame for the change to the official result, TAB is taking the following steps to ensure that customers are not disadvantaged:
* The Quartet pool is being refunded to satisfy international commingling partners, but anybody with a winning Quartet ticket can submit a claim and TAB will pay them what the correct official dividend would have been. All losing tickets will be refunded in full.
* Any TAB cash customer who was paid out before the corrected official result and received a lower payout than should have been the case can submit a claim for the difference. This applies to Place, Swinger, Trifecta, Quartet, and Place Accumulator bets.
* TAB account customers’ balances will be adjusted automatically in terms of the above.
* In-store TAB customers who cashed what later proved losing bets can treat their payouts as a windfall.
TAB customers wishing to submit claims must ask the branch manager for a claim form and any assistance they require in terms of submitting the claim. Call TAB Customer Care on 0861 444 822 for more information.

"Although in no way to blame for the change to the official result"

Is this statement correct? Surely they had something to do with the incorrect official result?

Have not read detail and what repercussion of tote and bookies were?
In my understanding basically once the OFFICIAL RESULT is posted that is what bets are paid against?

If any disqualification happen after that, you can change the stake cheques etc
But the OFFICIAL RESULT posted stands as far as punting.

There was an incident not too long ago where they made a massive thing about how their audit team picks up incorrect results before the all clear is given, which is why the result and dividend changed between provisional and official on that occasion.

With the above in mind, I am now wondering whether this so called audit team was drunk on Monday, or were they asleep? I could feasibly even understand this happening maybe in a late night USA meeting, but surely not on the sole local meeting, and especially with all eyes being on the last race for exotics etc?

This brings to light other things I've noticed about tote dividends of late, and I wouldn't be surprised at all if actual manipulation was happening. Certainly I see it on smaller pools, where larger bets are cancelled at the last moment, resulting in outlandishly large dividends on odds on favourites. This along with, and you should start watching this, swinger and trifecta dividends, the will pays will inevitably decrease a minute after the race has run on those combinations that have won.

As I mentioned I did not read the detail and many "mistakes" have happened over the years, on principle once OFFICIAL RESULT posted thats PAY PAY time, right or wrong.
Many bookies over the years eg Paddy Power have made exceptions to pay punters as it may have been regarded as "unfair" but these exceptions are "good will" to the punters rather than obligation.

The official result is posted by the NHA-employed Judges - the responsibility is on the Stipes to confirm that result before the "all clear" is given. The TAB auditors can only work with the "official" result as provided by the NHA.

they cant get false starts correct why would they bother getting the end result correct either.
we must all remember NHRA no longer have rules.they have guidelines. so perhaps now even results are only guidelines.

From Dev

Flamingo Park – Hollywoodbets Pay On Quartets
Present your ticket at any Hollywoodbets outlet
Updated 13th Aug 2019


Following the incorrect result declared in the ninth race at Flamingo Park on Monday due to an error in where there was a triple dead heat declared, all quartet bets were declared null and void, and are fully refundable.

In addition, Hollywoodbets will be paying out on the correct quartet dividends on winning tickets as shown below.

There were only two horses that dead heated for 3rd (not three).

Therefore the winning combinations will receive the following dividends:

2 – 6 – 3 – 13 : Dividend R4,443.50

2 – 6 – 13 – 3 : Dividend R6,415.70

Should you be in possession of a physical ticket played at a Hollywoodbets branch, please produce it to one of our team members, and they will assist in paying out the correct refund or dividend.

All Hollywoodbets account holders that had winning quartet bets with this these combinations, will be manually credited with their winnings.


Press release issued by the Hollywoodbets Team on Tuesday 13 August 2019

A triple dead heat!!
How often does that happen?
Surely the judges would want to go over the result again before posting the all clear to make sure that actually was the correct result which probably happens one in a million times.
Incompetence or someone had something to gain with the wrong result.
A inquiry has to be opened into this incident and the outcome given for everyone to see.I hope this doesn’t just gets swept under the carpet as it doesn’t show SA racing in a honest way.

Wrong result posted but corrected before OFFICIAL

www.racingpost.com/news/latest/wrong-win...sh-at-kempton/396073

Dave Scott wrote: Wrong result posted but corrected before OFFICIAL

www.racingpost.com/news/latest/wrong-win...sh-at-kempton/396073

Exactly,they picked it up before the all clear.
We had a triple dead heat,surely that would make the judges check again before declaring the all clear.
I still have my opinion that someone was benefiting with that wrong result.
1-10 we hear nothing more about it.

durbs wrote:

Dave Scott wrote: Wrong result posted but corrected before OFFICIAL

www.racingpost.com/news/latest/wrong-win...sh-at-kempton/396073

Exactly,they picked it up before the all clear.
We had a triple dead heat,surely that would make the judges check again before declaring the all clear.
I still have my opinion that someone was benefiting with that wrong result.
1-10 we hear nothing more about it.

Looks like the 1/10 is safe

Almost four weeks after this disaster, nothing has happened. Isn't this so typical of the NHA?

The more things change, the more they stay the same it seems