David Cormack says there’s more to racing than the form book

PSYCHOLOGY OF BETTING
Risk taking is an inherent part of the story of human development. From the first cave-dweller who ventured tentatively into the next valley to find better food resources and spread his/her genetic code more widely, much of human progress has depended on the propensity of people to accept risk.
Natural selection has shown that risk taking is generally, for all its dangers, a successful strategy and our genetic make-up includes programming which hard-wires our brains to both consciously and...