This week we enjoy the 2025 renewal of the prestigious Qatar 'Glorious' Goodwood Festival on the rolling Sussex Downs. To finish in front at a festival meeting contested on such a quintessentially quirky track requires more than traditional 'which is the best horse' form study. Preparations for those serious about the week begin with homework […]
As well as the Qatar 'Glorious' Goodwood festival, this same week witnesses Galway's seven-day bonanza at which there is almost literally a race for every horse. The programme covers the full gamut from two year old maidens to exposed handicap chasers. Here, we'll focus our attention on the flat handicaps ahead of the 2025 renewal […]
This week, as part of our Royal Ascot content, I'm making a suggested placepot permutation each day. Today is the final day of four where I'll offer my thoughts; tomorrow, you should now understand the process enough to 'fly solo'. So how's it been going? It started well on Tuesday: although the perm only caught […]
On we go, to the fourth day of Royal Ascot and the final day of our full preview coverage. Win, lose or draw, I hope you've enjoyed the contributions of our assembled panel. Victor Value, aka John Burke, and Gavin Priestley would very much appreciate you checking out their pages (through the banner images in […]
This week, as part of our Royal Ascot content, I'm making a suggested placepot permutation each day. It started well on Tuesday: although the perm only caught 2% of the dividend, that was enough to return £58.11 from a £24.96 stake, including 5% Tix bonus. That's a profit of £33.15. It got better yesterday: a […]
Into 'hump day', better known as Gold Cup day, or Ladies' Day - or even Thursday, or Day 3 - we go. The marathon Group 1 is the feature and, with the weather set fair it will be riding quick, so let's get straight to it. 2.30 THE NORFOLK STAKES (CLASS 1) (Group 2) Presented […]
This week, as part of our Royal Ascot content, I'm making a suggested placepot permutation each day. It started well on Tuesday: although the perm only caught 2% of the dividend, that was enough to return £58.11 from a £24.96 stake, including 5% Tix bonus. That's a profit of £33.15. Let's get to Wednesday, Day […]
It's Day Two, Wednesday, at the Royal Ascot jamboree and we're blessed once more with a magnificent seven races headlined by the Group 1 Prince Of Wales's Stakes for older horses over a mile and quarter. As with each weekday of the Royal meeting, I'm sharing preview responsibilities with a collective of talented and shrewd […]
This week, as part of our Royal Ascot content, I'll be making a suggested placepot permutation each day. I'll be using the ABCX approach, outlined here, and some online software called Tix which I built in conjunction with Nige, the guy who coded most of the original geegeez.co.uk racecards and form tools. [It is excellent […]
Royal Ascot 2025: Day One Preview, Trends, Tips And so to the most international race meeting in the British calendar, Royal Ascot. The 2025 edition looks as star-studded as ever and continues to bask in its royal patronage, one of the features of the opening day named in honour of our current reigning monarch. For […]
It's Friday, there's lot of racing - much of it high quality - and so why not do a race preview, or three? In the video below, I've tried to showcase a few of the more accessible components of Geegeez Gold and Lite, as well as throwing in a couple of the less well-trodden areas […]
It's the changing of the seasons, a time for spring cleaning and refreshing the house. And, this year, that extends to chez geegeez, too. You may have noticed a few changes already, including on this page, in terms of the look and feel of things. There's much more of that in the pipeline for the […]
The excitement of a new flat turf season is upon us once more, as we look forward to the Brocklesby, the Spring Mile and of course the Lincoln tomorrow at Doncaster. But that buzz can quickly give way to head scratching as we start to ponder which horses that have been absent for most of […]
With the 2025 Cheltenham Festival now fading out of sight in the rear view mirror, and with Aintree and, gasp, the flat season emerging on the horizon, now is a perfect moment to have a quick think about the 2026 Cheltenham ante post markets. There's obviously any amount of unpredictability to be visited on the […]
The Cheltenham Festival 2025 was, as always, a glorious assault on the senses and a searching test of constitution across four days. The thrilling sport has been covered in detail elsewhere on site and so in this post I'll ask and answer this: 28 races later, how did it go from a wagering standpoint? The […]
