Best bets for today in New Zealand: how a price is built, what a tip costs, and who is allowed to take your bet
Available in USA punter searching for “best bets for today in New Zealand” usually wants a name, a price and a tip. This page explains why none of those three things is what they appear to be. It walks through how a prediction is built from form, statistics and line-ups, why “value” matters more than any name on a coupon, and what the bookmaker’s margin quietly removes from every price a New Zealand punter sees. It then turns to the legal landscape in New Zealand, where the only operators lawfully allowed to take a sports or racing bet from someone in this country are TAB NZ and its online sister brand Betcha, and what that means for any other brand a reader meets online.
This guide is current as of 30 October 2026, and the regulatory picture was checked against the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) and the Racing Industry Act 2020 as amended in 2025.
Table of Contents
- Responsible gambling comes first
- Building a prediction without pretending to know the result
- What “today’s best bets” actually looks like in New Zealand
- The bookmaker’s margin: the price the punter does not see
- Bankroll discipline: the boring part that wins seasons
- New Zealand’s betting landscape: who is allowed to take a bet
- The top 10 reviewed bookmakers for a New Zealand punter, in context
- A worked example: a margin on a two-way market
- Frequently asked questions about betting in New Zealand today
Responsible gambling comes first
Anyone reading a betting guide knows first what a bet is not. A bet is not income. A bet is not a hedge against bad luck. A bet is not the answer to last week’s loss. A run of winners do not predict a run of winners, and a run of losers is not a sign the next one is “due”. The whole point of this page is that no one — tipster, model, journalist, app — knows who wins a sporting event before it is played, and any page that names a winner has already stepped outside what evidence supports.
What safer gambling looks like
TAB NZ’s app carries the standard set of safer-gambling tools a New Zealand punter expects from a regulated operator: deposit limits, time-outs and self-exclusion, and the exclusion applies across both TAB NZ brands (TAB and Betcha). Set a deposit limit before placing a first bet, not after a first losing run. A time-out is for a short break — a weekend, a long weekend, a fortnight. Self-exclusion is longer, and the period is set by the punter.
The free Gambling Helpline on 0800 654 655, or text 8006, is the single New Zealand-wide line for gambling harm. Safer Gambling Aotearoa runs the same service online. The levy TAB NZ pays into problem-gambling services is set at 0.74% of its revenue and runs to 30 June 2028.
The cost of chasing
A losing streak is the single most expensive part of recreational betting, not because the prices are bad but because of what a punter does next. Doubling the stake to “win it back” sounds like a plan and is not; it concentrates the next bet’s risk into one outcome and burns through a bankroll twice as fast as a flat stake. Betting under fatigue or after alcohol is the same shape — bigger stakes, smaller judgement. The cheapest tool a punter owns is a stop-loss: a fixed amount the bankroll is allowed to lose in a session, after which the app is closed and the day is over.
When a tipster is not the answer
A tipster charging a subscription, an AI promising a “lock of the day”, a YouTuber with a track record of confident winners — each sells certainty that does not exist. A tip that wins ten in a row is not evidence of skill; the streak has to survive hundreds of bets at the claimed strike rate before it says anything useful, and most public tipster records do not survive that test. The cheapest defence is to record every bet placed, the closing price, and the result, and to check the closing line value after a season rather than the wins of a weekend.
Building a prediction without pretending to know the result
A “best bet” is built, not found. Three ingredients go into any prediction worth placing: the form of the teams or runners, the statistics that matter for the sport, and the market’s own odds. None of them is a crystal ball, and the goal is not to know who wins — the goal is to find a price that pays more than the chance of winning is worth.
Reading form
Form is recent results, adjusted for the strength of the opposition and the conditions. In rugby union, form means results in the last six weeks, against comparable sides, with travelling, weather and injury notes added. In horse racing, form means the horse’s last three starts at similar distances, on similar going, against similar class. “Best form on paper” usually means best form at a distance or class the next race does not match, and reading it as a tip is how a punter pays for the favourite without thinking.
Form is also the part of the picture most punters under-weight. A team on a four-match winning run has not just been winning — it has been winning against the kind of opposition it faced. A side that has just beaten the league’s bottom club is not the same as a side that has just beaten the league’s top club, and the odds on both teams the next week rarely reflect the difference.
Reading statistics
Statistics add the second layer. Expected goals in football, run rates and powerplay numbers in cricket, time-on-possession and tackle counts in rugby league, sectional times in horse racing — each gives a number behind the result. A 1-0 win can be a domination or a smash-and-grab, and the underlying numbers say which one it was. The point of those numbers is not to predict the next score; it is to compare the team that won against the team that lost on something other than the scoreboard, so that the price the bookmaker offers can be tested.
A useful rule of thumb: the deeper a stat goes into a sport, the more it costs in time and the more it earns in edge. Goals, points and runs are the headline and are already inside the price. The second layer — shots, carries, breaks, sectionals — is closer to where a price is wrong.
Reading the market
The third ingredient is the market itself, and the market is also where the bookmaker’s margin sits. Two runners at $2.10 each in a two-horse race adds to a fair price (a 100% payout share, no margin). Two runners at $1.90 each, the example used further down this page, already pay back roughly 95 cents in the dollar, with the missing five cents the bookmaker’s margin. The margin is on every price, on every bookmaker, in every market.
That is also where a value bet is defined. A value bet is a bet whose odds are higher than the chance of winning deserves. If a side has a 60% chance of winning (a price of $1.67 to be “fair”), and the bookmaker offers $2.00, the bet has value: the price pays more than the chance warrants. If the same side is offered at $1.50, the bet is bad: the price pays less than the chance is worth. The punter who bets the favourite every week does not lose because the favourites lose — they lose because the favourites’ prices already pay back less than they are worth.
Why no tip is certain
A tip is a probability dressed as a certainty. The best-built prediction still gives the favourite roughly a 60% chance, not a guarantee; an underdog at $5 has roughly a 20% chance, which means it loses four times out of five and wins often enough to keep a punter coming back. No model, no form line, no statistic raises those numbers to certainty, and the page that claims to is selling something no one owns.
What “today’s best bets” actually looks like in New Zealand
A New Zealand punter asking for “today’s best bets” usually wants a name, a price and a tip. The honest answer is three separate things, none of which is a tip.
Today’s meeting
TAB NZ publishes the day’s meetings across thoroughbred, harness and greyhound racing, plus the day’s sports fixtures, in its Racing and Sports sections. The day’s card is the day’s market; it is not a list of bets.
Today’s form
Form for those meetings is in the TAB NZ app — racing form, sectional times, jockey and trainer statistics, and the Blackbook and Jockey Challenge tools in the racing product. For a sport, the form is in the head-to-head, the line-ups, the venue, and the recent record. None of this is a tip.
Today’s prices
The price the TAB NZ app or the Betcha app offers is the only price the punter can actually take. Any price an offshore brand publishes is for an account the law does not let that brand offer to a person in New Zealand, and any “best odds” comparison that includes those prices is comparing bets the punter cannot legally place at home.
Today’s markets
A New Zealand punter has access to fixed-odds betting and tote (pool) betting on racing, plus fixed-odds sports betting. The racing markets TAB NZ lists include Win, Place, Each Way, Quinella, Exacta, Trifecta, First Four, Double, Treble, Daily Double, Running Double, Quaddie and Big6. Multis and Same Game Multis are also listed. Live betting is in the TAB NZ apps. Anything else — betting exchanges, spread betting — is not part of TAB NZ’s sports-betting definition, and no lawful New Zealand betting exchange exists.
The bookmaker’s margin: the price the punter does not see
Every price on a bookmaker’s screen is built from two things: the chance of the outcome, and the margin the bookmaker keeps. The chance is what the punter is reading; the margin is what the punter is paying. Both are inside the same number.
How the margin is built
A two-way market with two runners of equal chance is the cleanest example. The fair price for each runner is $2.00: a $10 stake returns $20, including the $10 stake, for a 100% payout share. Anything less than $2.00 is the bookmaker’s margin working.
Take the example the page works through below — two runners at $1.90 each. The payout share of that market is roughly 1 ÷ (1 ÷ 1.90 + 1 ÷ 1.90), which is 1 ÷ (0.5263 + 0.5263), or 1 ÷ 1.0526, or about 95.0%. The margin is 100% minus the payout share, or about 5.0%. The bookmaker keeps roughly five cents in the dollar of every stake taken on that market, before any bet is settled.
A three-way market, the 1X2 of football (home win, draw, away win), carries more margin because three outcomes pay back, and a typical margin there is closer to 6% to 8%. Markets with a long tail of runners — horse racing, golf, grand prix betting — carry different margins again, and a punter comparing prices across markets compares margins too, not just the prices.
Where the margin hides
The margin is most easily seen in a market whose prices add to less than 100% of the implied probability. If two even runners are at $1.90 each, the implied probabilities are 1 ÷ 1.90 + 1 ÷ 1.90 = 105.26%, which is more than 100%; the overshoot is the margin. If three runners in a horse race are at $3.50, $5.00 and $10.00, the implied probabilities are 28.6% + 20.0% + 10.0% = 58.6%, and the other 41.4% sits across the rest of the field. A punter who reads only the favourite’s price is reading only one number out of the whole field.
What the margin costs
A 5% margin on a $10 stake costs 50 cents. A 7% margin costs 70 cents. Across a season of, say, 500 bets at a $10 average stake, a 5% margin costs roughly $250 — and a 12% margin costs roughly $600. The difference between a margin of 5% and a margin of 12% is not a small detail; it is a season’s worth of staking money. The punter who picks a thinner-margin market is not picking winners more often, but is paying the bookmaker less on every losing bet.
The margin in a multi bet
A multi bet multiplies the prices of the legs into one price, and it also multiplies the margins. Two legs at a 5% margin each combine into a market whose margin is roughly 1 − (0.95 × 0.95), or about 9.75%. Three legs at 5% each compound into about 14.3%. Five legs at 5% each compound into about 22.6%. The longer the multi, the higher the margin built into the final price, and the harder it is for the punter to find a price that pays more than the chance of winning all legs is worth.
Bankroll discipline: the boring part that wins seasons
A punter’s bankroll is the total amount set aside for betting, separate from rent, food and any savings. Staking discipline is how much of that bankroll is risked on any one bet. The relationship between the two is what determines whether a punter is in the game at the end of the season.
A flat stake, as a default
A flat stake is the simplest staking plan: the punter risks the same amount on every bet, regardless of confidence. One unit per bet, set at 1% to 2% of the bankroll, is the band most recreational bankroll advice settles on. At 1%, a losing streak of ten bets in a row costs 10% of the bankroll, which is recoverable; at 5%, the same streak costs roughly 50% of the bankroll, which is not. A punter who bets 5% of the bankroll per bet is not betting more confidently — they are betting more dangerously.
The Kelly criterion, and why a half-Kelly is safer
The Kelly criterion is the staking plan that, in theory, grows a bankroll fastest by sizing each stake to the perceived edge. In practice, an edge estimated from a small sample is wrong, and a full Kelly over-bets a wrong edge. Most recreational staking advice settles on a half-Kelly or a quarter-Kelly as the safer compromise: still sizing by edge, but small enough that a misjudged edge does not wipe out the bankroll in a bad week.
A staking plan that chases is a bad staking plan
Doubling after a loss, increasing the stake to “win it back”, increasing the stake after a win to “ride the streak” — each sounds like a plan and is not. The first compounds losses into a single bet that has to win to recover everything. The second mistakes variance for skill. The third mistakes a winning streak for an edge that does not exist. A staking plan does not change because the last bet won or lost; it changes because the punter’s bankroll has changed.
A record that survives the season
A punter’s record — every bet, the closing price, the stake, the result — is the only thing that tells the punter whether the season was good or lucky. A spreadsheet updated after each session, or a staking app that records the same things, costs minutes per bet and saves a season of guessing. The closing price, in particular, is the price the bookmaker settled the market at; comparing the punter’s price to the closing price is the standard measure of whether the punter took value.
New Zealand’s betting landscape: who is allowed to take a bet
Since an amendment to the Racing Industry Act 2020 took effect on 28 June 2025, TAB NZ and its online sister brand Betcha are the only operators allowed to take online sports and racing bets in New Zealand. The Department of Internal Affairs told unlicensed providers to withdraw with immediate effect. The change sits in section 74AAA of the Act, and the practical effect is that a New Zealand punter with two names — TAB and Betcha — has a single betting provider.
Why there is no second licence
The Racing Industry Act 2020 establishes TAB NZ as the sole betting provider for racing and sports in New Zealand. The 2025 amendment did not create a licensing route for another bookmaker; it closed the gap that had let offshore brands advertise into New Zealand. There is no licence register for betting in New Zealand because there is only one lawful provider to register. The change did not geo-block offshore websites — it puts the liability on the offshore operator, not on the punter’s internet service.
TAB and Betcha, and why they are not rivals
TAB NZ runs two online brands, TAB and Betcha. The racing and sports product on both is operated by Entain NZ under a 25-year agreement signed in 2023. Under that agreement, Entain and TAB NZ split gross profits 50/50, with at least $150m a year going to TAB NZ for the first five years. The two brands are not rivals competing for the same punter; they are two front doors to the same pool of bets, the same product, the same odds. TAB is the established racing product; Betcha is the younger, sports-led product, with a Multi Builder for building multi bets, a daily Toolbox of odds boosts and insurance tools, a Bet Social section where punters chat and follow tipsters, and a Playbook of tips and match analysis.
What “not licensed in New Zealand” means on this page
Any other brand a New Zealand punter meets online — LegendPlay, Glorion, 22Bet, Alawin, Spinbara, Millioner, Rooster, BigClash, and many more — is “not licensed in New Zealand” for one reason: only TAB NZ may offer sports or racing bets to a person in New Zealand. An Anjouan or Tobique or Curaçao licence gives the brand no right to take bets from people in New Zealand; a New Zealand complaints route does not reach it; New Zealand harm-minimisation rules do not apply. The page does not list these brands to recommend them. It lists them so a punter who sees them advertised elsewhere knows what they are: a service the operator is not allowed to offer into this country, with none of the New Zealand consumer safeguards a TAB NZ bet carries.
The grey area no one has closed
Esports betting sits in a gap: the Racing Industry Act 2020 covers “sports betting”, and it is not established whether esports is “sports betting” for that purpose. The Online Casino Gambling Act 2026 treats virtual (computer-simulated) sport as casino gambling. The DIA has not, on the public record, ruled on either. The page does not pretend to know. If a punter wants to bet on an esports event, the legal position is not established, and the offshore brand offering the bet is not legally allowed to offer it.
The top 10 reviewed bookmakers for a New Zealand punter, in context
What follows is a comparison of ten brands a New Zealand punter is likely to meet online. TAB and Betcha are the only two a New Zealand punter can lawfully bet with at home; the other eight are listed for reference, with the licence status made plain. The page describes each brand; it does not recommend them.
| Brand | New Zealand status | Key terms on the brand’s own site |
|---|---|---|
| TAB | TAB NZ brand — licensed under the Racing Industry Act 2020 | 18+; deposit limits, time-outs and self-exclusion in app |
| Betcha | TAB NZ brand — licensed under the Racing Industry Act 2020 | 18+; Multi Builder, Toolbox, Bet Social and Playbook features |
| LegendPlay | Not licensed in New Zealand | Sports, Live Betting and Virtual Sports sections |
| Glorion | Not licensed in New Zealand | Live chat or email support; 18+ |
| 22Bet | Not licensed in New Zealand | Single, accumulator, system and chain bets; live betting |
| Alawin | Not licensed in New Zealand | Live Betting, Virtual Sports and esports sections |
| Spinbara | Not licensed in New Zealand | Casino-side restriction noted in the brand’s own terms |
| Millioner | Not licensed in New Zealand | Pre-match and live betting on the listed sports |
| Rooster | Not licensed in New Zealand | Live, E-sports and Predictions sections; six odds formats |
| BigClash | Not licensed in New Zealand | Pre-match and live betting, virtual sports and esports |
TAB (tab.co.nz)
TAB is the established brand of TAB NZ and the primary racing product in the country. The TAB NZ app lists horse and harness racing, rugby union and rugby league, and other sports, with pre-match and live betting. The racing product carries a Trackside live race streaming service, in-app betting, racing form, Blackbook and Jockey Challenge tools, and a simplified wallet. The App Store rating is 17+, with TAB NZ’s own terms requiring customers to be 18 or over to bet. Deposit limits, time-outs and self-exclusion are listed in the app.
The verdict. TAB is the lawful New Zealand option for racing and sports betting, with New Zealand harm-minimisation tools, regulator oversight and a complaints framework. The product is built around the racing codes — thoroughbred, harness and greyhound (greyhound racing is closing in stages from 1 August 2026) — and the multi product is functional rather than rich. For a punter who wants to bet on New Zealand and on Australian racing and on the All Blacks, this is the only place to do it at home.
Betcha (betcha.co.nz)
Betcha is the younger, sports-led online brand of TAB NZ, run alongside TAB by Entain NZ. The app’s signature tools are the Multi Builder for building multi bets, the daily Toolbox of odds boosts and insurance tools for bets that do not land, the Bet Social section where punters chat, follow tipsters and share bets or pools, and the Playbook of tips and match analysis. A new multi-grid builds Same Game Multis. Like TAB, the age requirement is 18 and safer-gambling tools are listed.
The verdict. Betcha is the lawful New Zealand option for the punter who wants a sports-led product with a multi-builder and a social layer. The Toolbox and Playbook tools are a soft form of “tips from the brand”, and the value of those tools depends on whether the punter reads them as a starting point for their own form work or as a substitute for it. For a punter who wants a TAB NZ account with a more modern front end, this is the brand.
LegendPlay
LegendPlay is an offshore brand with an Anjouan Gaming Authority licence that gives no right to take bets from people in New Zealand. Its sportsbook is organised into Sports, Live Betting and Virtual Sports, with football, tennis, basketball and ice hockey listed. There is no New Zealand complaints route and no New Zealand harm-minimisation framework that reaches it. The brand’s age requirement is 18 in its own terms.
The verdict. LegendPlay is on this list because a New Zealand punter meets it. It is not licensed in New Zealand, and the Anjouan licence is no substitute for the absence of a New Zealand regulator, a New Zealand complaints route, and New Zealand harm-minimisation rules. For a New Zealand punter at home, this brand is not a lawful option.
Glorion
Glorion is an offshore brand and New Zealand law does not license it. Its sportsbook covers pre-match and live betting, virtual sports, horse racing and esports, with markets grouped into popular, niche, indoor and outdoor sports and entertainment events such as award shows and elections. Support is by live chat or email. The age requirement is 18 in its own terms.
The verdict. Glorion carries a broad catalogue of markets, including entertainment markets (award shows, elections) that are not part of TAB NZ’s product. None of those markets are a lawful New Zealand bet on this brand. For a New Zealand punter at home, the catalogue is beside the point.
22Bet
22Bet is an offshore brand with a Curaçao licence (8048/JAZ) held by TechSolutions Group N.V., which gives no right to take bets from people in New Zealand. Its sportsbook takes single bets, accumulators, systems and chains, with live betting and real-time odds and score updates. There is no New Zealand complaints route.
The verdict. 22Bet is a wide-product offshore bookmaker whose licence is Curaçao, not local. The breadth of bet types — single, accumulator, system, chain — does not change the fact that none of those bets is a lawful New Zealand bet on this brand. For a New Zealand punter at home, the licence is the wrong one.
Alawin
Alawin is an offshore brand with no licence that applies in New Zealand. Its sportsbook covers football, tennis, table tennis, basketball, ice hockey, American football and baseball, with Live Betting, Virtual Sports and esports. There is no New Zealand complaints route.
The verdict. Alawin’s catalogue is mainstream sports plus virtual and esports, which is a common offshore shape. None of it is a lawful New Zealand bet on this brand. The lack of a licence that applies in New Zealand is the headline; the catalogue is the second.
Spinbara
Spinbara is an offshore brand with no licence that applies in New Zealand. Its sports terms include a casino-side restriction — a single slot game is noted in the brand’s terms as unavailable in New Zealand — and the page notes it because it is what the brand’s own terms say. The restriction is about a single casino game and not about the site as a whole.
The verdict. Spinbara’s published restriction on a single slot game in New Zealand is a useful illustration of how brands carve out country-level exceptions. It is not a sign the site is otherwise lawful for New Zealand sports or racing betting. For a New Zealand punter at home, the headline is still the licence.
Millioner
Millioner is an offshore brand with no licence that applies in New Zealand. Its sportsbook offers pre-match and live events on football, tennis, table tennis, basketball, ice hockey, American football and baseball, with separate Live Betting and Virtual Sports sections.
The verdict. Millioner’s shape is a standard offshore sportsbook with a virtual sports section. None of it is a lawful New Zealand bet on this brand. For a New Zealand punter at home, the licence is the same as the rest of this group.
BigClash
BigClash is an offshore brand with a Curaçao licence (8048/JAZ) that gives no right to take bets from people in New Zealand. Its sportsbook covers pre-match and live sports betting across international and local leagues, plus virtual sports and esports betting on FPS and MOBA titles.
The verdict. BigClash is an esports-friendly offshore bookmaker whose Curaçao licence is no substitute for a New Zealand licence. For a New Zealand punter at home, the esports catalogue is the brand’s pitch; the licence is the problem.
A worked example: a margin on a two-way market
The margin on a market is the share of every stake the bookmaker keeps, before any bet is settled. It is calculated from the prices the bookmaker offers on every outcome of one market, and it is the cleanest way to read what a market really costs a punter.
Take an illustrative two-way market with two outcomes priced at $1.90 each. The implied probability of each outcome is 1 ÷ 1.90, or roughly 52.63%. Add the two implied probabilities — 52.63% + 52.63% — to get 105.26%, which is the “book”. The payout share is 1 ÷ the book, or 1 ÷ 1.0526, which is about 95.0%. The margin is 100% minus the payout share, or about 5.0%.
For a $10 stake on either outcome, a winning bet returns $19.00, which is the stake times the price. The punter who loses the $10 pays the bookmaker’s margin; the punter who wins the $10 also pays it, because the $19.00 return is $1.00 short of the $20.00 fair return on a 50/50 market. Across a season of 500 bets at a $10 average stake, a 5% margin costs roughly $250 of stake money that does not come back as winnings, before any bet is settled.
This is not a quoted price and not a prediction; it is the arithmetic of what a margin looks like. The same arithmetic, applied to a three-way market with three realistic outcomes, produces a higher margin. The same arithmetic, applied to a multi bet whose legs each carry a 5% margin, compounds into a margin of about 9.75% on two legs, 14.3% on three legs, and 22.6% on five legs.
Frequently asked questions about betting in New Zealand today
What bets to take today?
Take bets whose prices you can justify from form, statistics and the market’s own odds, and only with TAB NZ or Betcha if you are betting from New Zealand. Any other brand offering sports or racing bets to a New Zealand punter is in breach of section 74AAA of the Racing Industry Act 2020; the punter is not prosecuted, but the bet sits outside New Zealand harm-minimisation rules and a New Zealand complaints route. The cheapest defence is a record of every bet, the closing price and the result.
What is the betting line on the Super Bowl today?
The line on the Super Bowl, on the day of the game, is whatever the TAB NZ app or the Betcha app is offering at that moment. Both apps carry the NFL markets in season; the line is the price for each side, the handicap, and the total. The line is not a prediction; it is the price the market is offering. A punter who wants value compares the price to their own estimate of the chance of winning.
What is a value bet and why is no tip ever certain?
A value bet is a bet whose price is higher than the chance of winning deserves. If a side has a 60% chance of winning (a fair price of $1.67) and the bookmaker offers $2.00, the bet has value. No tip is ever certain because the chance of winning is never 100%; a 60% favourite still loses 40% of the time, and an underdog at $5 wins roughly one in five. The model, the form, the statistic and the price all reduce uncertainty; none of them removes it.
What is the bookmaker’s margin and how can it be seen in the odds?
The bookmaker’s margin is the share of every stake the bookmaker keeps, built into every price on every market. In a two-way market with two runners at $1.90 each, the implied probabilities add to 105.26%, the payout share is about 95.0%, and the margin is about 5.0%. A punter who reads only one runner’s price is missing the margin; a punter who reads the sum of implied probabilities can see it.
How is the return on a bet worked out from the stake and the odds?
The return on a single bet is the stake times the decimal odds. A $10 stake at $1.90 returns $19.00, which is the $10 stake plus $9.00 of profit. For a multi bet, the prices of the legs multiply into one combined price; a two-leg multi with legs of $1.5 and $2.0 has a combined price of $3.00, and a $10 stake returns $30.00 if both legs win. A free bet whose stake is not paid back with a win returns only the profit, not the stake.
Which bookmaker may lawfully take sports and racing bets in New Zealand?
TAB NZ and its online sister brand Betcha, both operated by Entain NZ under a 25-year agreement, are the only operators lawfully allowed to take online sports and racing bets from a person in New Zealand since 28 June 2025 (section 74AAA of the Racing Industry Act 2020). No other brand is licensed in New Zealand for this; an offshore licence in Anjouan, Tobique, Curaçao or elsewhere gives no right to take bets from people in New Zealand. The Department of Internal Affairs told unlicensed providers to withdraw with immediate effect.
Prepared by the Nzesportsbets editorial staff.
