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Sportsbet’s marketing director Barney Evans described the High Court of Australia’s ruling that Racing NSW can charge a turnover based fee on NSW racing as "disappointing” but he said the corporate bookmaker will "respect the decision”.

The High Court of Australia’s Chief Justice French announced that shortly after 10am that a panel of Australia’s High Court judges had dismissed appeals by Sportsbet and Betfair against Racing NSW’s 1.5 percent face field legislation fee.

"It’s disappointing but it’s not the end of the world and our focus now turns exactly in the direction it should and that’s protecting our customers,” Evans told Sky Racing.

"We won’t pass any costs onto them.

"We’ll work doubly hard to ensure that they continue to get the best product, the best service and the best prices from Sportsbet.

"We’ve always paid product fees, we’ve paid them in every state in Australia to all the racing codes and we’ll continue to do that now.

"That’s not the issue, we’re very happy to pay for a good product, all we were seeking was a level playing field so that we can compete fairly against the TAB that have a built in advantage against us.

"That hasn’t happened, we respect the decision, this is the High Court of Australia and their decision is appropriate.

"We’ll just continue on delivering the best value for customers.”

Evans said now it is time to move forward, working with Racing NSW.

"What we can do now is draw a line in the sand and everybody work together to focus back on the most important people in racing and that’s the punters,” he said