Thank you so much, dear reader, for your interest in my new Geegeez Laying Service (GLS), and for your patience on Friday when amidst the fanfares and footfall, there was a – by now – traditional launch day cock up on the part of yours truly.
Due to said technical glitch, a number of you were [...]

It’s a curious thing is contrariness, dear reader, a very curious thing. I’m not sure I could have been any clearer about the fact that my exciting new Laying System service was not going ‘live’ until Monday, and please don’t sign up yet. Bizarrely, I’ve had nearly twenty people sign up!
So, fingers aching from writing [...]

I’ve often wondered, dear reader, what on Earth Thanksgiving is all about. You know, that strange holiday held in the States (and Canada, I believe) towards the end of year, where they eat turkey, but which isn’t Christmas.
Well, my curiosity got the better of me today, Thanksgiving Day, and I went online in search of [...]

A strange day yesterday, dear reader, with more than a whiff of skulduggery in the air at Southwell.
First, there was the remarkable case of decent bumper horse, Shiwawa, making his all weather debut in a very moderate 1m4f maiden. Strongly backed all day (including by yours truly), the horse suddenly drifted from evens to 2/1 [...]

I bring important news today, dear reader, of something exciting happening from next week.
In fairness, it probably won’t change your life irreversibly, in the way that… say… a sex change (or gender transformation, as I believe the correct term is) operation would.
And it won’t be the answer to all your financial worries either (should you, [...]

Squibs come in all shapes and sizes, dear reader, but few in recent memory have been damper than that which descended over our eternally optimistic Scoop 6 ticket yesterday.
With a perm that would have made the great Carlos Valderrama jealous, we were ready for action.And, though we sailed through the first leg, with both the [...]

Today is the day, dear reader, and we’re positively wet with cautious excitement. It could all go horribly wrong very early, such is the competitiveness of every event in the Scoop 6 today.
But we have loaded our perm, seriously burnt the oil on the form study front, and come up with what we believe to [...]

Rarely has the world of racing stopped, dear reader, for such a puntfest as the one that will ensue tomorrow. The clamour surrounding the tote pool for the Scoop6 is reaching national news-worthy status and is in serious danger of impacting ‘I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here’s monopoly on the front pages of [...]

Scoop6mania, dear reader, is spreading fast, and will be a wild unchecked contagion by Saturday. My good mate Gavin at Nag3 is running a syndicate for the weekend. You can get involved for as little as a tenner, should you so wish, and will win a percentage of the total winnings equivalent to your percentage [...]

It’s low grade fare today, dear reader, but for every race there must be a winner, and 4/1 in a seller pays no less than 4/1 in a Grade 1, so let’s see what we can establish about today’s punting action.
Starting at Folkestone, and I am seriously tempted to take on Medermit in the 1.10 [...]

Normally a reliable barometer of Festival prospects, dear reader, this past weekend’s Cheltenham Open meeting will, I suspect, be no more than a provider of pesky red herrings with regards to events at the same place next March.
The ground contrived against many of the runners, and with sense and sensibility aforethought, most jocks ambled around [...]

After a bizarre and hugely eventful first day of the Open meeting, dear reader, there is much to look back on and much to look forward to…
Today’s curious goings on started when Hoopy’s jockey, having made a typical amateur rider blunder and dropped his whip, nicked another ‘persuader’ from an ailing competitor as he passed [...]