Glossary of Australian and New Zealand Punting - P

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  • Pacifiers: Mesh eye-covers used to calm horses down. Racing stewards may restrict their use in wet weather for safety reasons, as mud can stick to them.
  • Pay the grandstand: Often said of a likely exotic tote dividend when one or more outsiders win or run a place. "It will pay the grandstand."
  • Penetrometer: A device used for measuring the hardness or softness of the track by measuring the extent to which the device penetrates the ground.
  • Persuader: Colloquial term for a jockey’s whip.
  • Photo finish: Where the finish of the race is so close that a photograph has to be used to determine the eventual winner/placer.
  • Pigskin: A jockey’s saddle.
  • Pig-root: Horse which bucks and tries to throw the rider.
  • Pilot the field: To lead the race.
  • Placed: Finished in the first three in a race.
  • Place bet A place bet will win if the selected horse finishes in the first three in fields of eight or more horses. If there are only six or seven runners the horse must finish first or second to place.
  • Plonk: A sizeable amount wagered on a horse. Not quite a plunge but a "decent plonk" nevertheless.
  • Plunge: In the bookmakers' ring, a massive and sudden support for a horse.
  • Postilion: Jockey.
  • Preliminary: The walk, canter or gallop by a horse on the way to the starting stalls.
  • Pre-post odds: A horse's anticipated odds as printed in the morning newspapers.
  • Price: The odds on offer about a horse.
  • Prior convictions: A horse which has failed to perform to expectations on previous occasions.
  • Protest: When a jockey, owner, trainer or steward alleges interference by one party against another during a race that may have affected the outcome of a race. If a protest is upheld by stewards, the runner that caused the interference is placed directly after the horse interfered with. If a protest is dismissed, the original result of the race stands.
  • Pulled its head off: Said of a horse that would not settle, or over-raced.
  • Pulling: Over racing.
  • Punt: To wager on the outcome of a race.
  • Punter: Person making the wager.
  • Put your house on: A good thing.

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