To mark the return of flat turf racing to Britain, I've recorded some thoughts on the two big field mile handicaps being run at Doncaster tomorrow. The Spring Mile and the Lincoln are both Class 2 straight mile handicaps and both have 22 runners as I write. The ground is currently soft, heavy in places, […]
Cheltenham Festival 2023: Day Four Preview, Tips We're onto Give Back Friday, which is bad news if you're already in negative equity. Traditionally the hardest of the four days, this year Day Four looks as fiendish as ever. Still, where there's light there's hope... 1.30 Triumph Hurdle (Grade 1, 2m1f) Time was when the Triumph […]
Cheltenham Festival 2023: Day 3 Preview, Tips And so to the second half. Still 14 races to go at, including the Stayers' Hurdle, Ryanair Chase and, of course, Friday's Gold Cup. Lots of smaller supporting fish that might also taste sweet, starting with... 1.30 Turners Novices' Chase (Grade 1, 2m 4f) A bigger field than […]
Cheltenham Festival 2023: Day Two Preview, Trends, Tips Day two, Wednesday, and a similar combination of novice races, handicaps and a Championship race, this time the Queen Mother Champion Chase. As ever, it's a one-thirty start for the... 1.30 Ballymore Novices' Hurdle (Grade 1, 2m5f) They say the Ballymore/Neptune/Baring Bingham is more of a speed […]
Cheltenham Festival 2023: Day One Preview, Tips We're back! The 2023 Cheltenham Festival is here, and it's going to be a belter! 28 races, almost all of them head-scratching puzzles in terms wagering possibilities... and that's just as it should be! Let's get straight to it. 1.30 Supreme Novices' Hurdle (Grade 1, 2m 1/2f) Half […]
In front of a packed and enthralled gathering at South Kensington Holiday Inn, London Racing Club's annual 'best of breed' Cheltenham Preview Evening unfurled. Gently and eloquently compered by Racing Post senior writer, Lee Mottershead (LM), the panel further comprised stats man extraordinaire and former author of Weatherby's annual guide, Matt Tombs (MT), Racing TV's […]
It's less than two weeks until the tapes rise on the 2023 Cheltenham Festival and, while the Grade 1 action features the very best British and Irish (as well as a soupcon of French) National Hunt horses, it is the handicaps where the biggest scores are often made. The potential for a windfall is created […]
In some ways this is a dangerous post. In it I will attempt to answer the question, "which factors should I consider in which races?" It's "dangerous" because different people use different things for different purposes. What works for me may very well not work for you; and what works for you works for you! […]
In the first of a new and occasional - maybe very occasional if nobody else wants to share what they're doing! - series, we free up the stage for a Geegeez Gold subscriber 'show and tell'. This inaugural episode features Gold user Rob Bayliss talking about how he combines various elements of the service to […]
Betting is fun, perhaps more so on horses than most other sports because of the speed with which the result is known; that rapid production of endorphins induced by the short duration of a race compared with, say, a football match. Arriving at a selection is also fun, the process taking a good bit longer […]
As has become a bit of an annual tradition, each year in early January I share my personal betting P&L. To be frank, it's all rather mundane - certainly no financial fireworks at any rate - but I'm very happy to continue to 'walk the talk'. To be clear, that means having a huge amount […]
It's been another bumper year of content on geegeez, the daily news and pointers feeds supplemented by some outstanding contributions from our editorial team. What follows is a selection of some of the top posts published here in 2022. Beneath the pick of the posts, I've also added links to the author's full article lists […]
The Breeders' Cup action on the tracks at Keeneland was, barring the high class procession of Flightline in the Classic, fiercely contested and highly emotionally charged. So, too, was betting the races; and, for this punter at least, it was a white knuckle roller coaster of a weekend. Allow me to elaborate... A feature of […]
This time next week the first five, of fourteen, Breeders' Cup races will be upon us. Friday is juvenile day, with nine older horse Championship races following on Saturday, and the action - both on track and in the betting - will be feverish. One of the beauties of the Breeders' Cup is the convergence […]
Breeders' Cup Trends for Keeneland 2022 This will be the 39th renewal of the great transatlantic horseracing shemozzle that is the Breeders' Cup and, while some races are a lot newer than that, most have a historical profile worth noting. What follows are some observations based on what we've seen previously in the hope that […]
