The Cheltenham Festival is almost upon us. For some it's just another race meeting, for many it's a special week in the racing calendar, and for a few it's Christmas and birthday rolled into one. Wherever you fit on that spectrum there are things about betting on Cheltenham that are different and that you ought […]
In front of a full house of keen racing fans, London Racing Club's brains trust assembled. They were Lydia Hislop (LH), Matt Tombs (MT), Jamie Benson (JB), and maintaining order, Lee Mottershead (LM). What follows are the notes I managed to make from their thoughts. Tuesday Supreme Novices' Hurdle LH: Kopek des Bordes (KdB) will […]
Every January since forever I have totted up my betting account deposits and withdrawals for the previous year to work out where I stand. For the last few I've done that publicly on here, though not last year - I've put that right below. [Shock, horror, it was a *losing* year - the full grizzly […]
Happy New Year to you! Here's hoping 2025 is another year packed full of thrilling action on the track, and some terrific bets landed. More importantly, I wish you and yours the very best of health for the coming year. Meanwhile, on geegeez.co.uk, we've got a brand new TRENDS racecard tab, woohoo! It looks like […]
Geegeez has a couple of new features - and a new membership tier - going live this week. Let's get straight to it... New Feature #1: Odds History We've added odds history data so you can see the trajectory of price movement. But I wanted to present an uncluttered view of the movement, unlike other […]
Another winning ticket yesterday but, again, the dividend was measly meaning profits were, too. Still 25% ROI is not terrible and clawed back some of the Monday deficit. Wednesday is my final contribution in this stint - Chris is back tomorrow - and I think we'll stay over jumps. It's cold out there, Hexham failing […]
After 17 straight winners highlighted across three days, we came down to earth with a mighty bump in the last leg of yesterday's Leicester placepot, as one of the two A picks refused to race and took no part; and the other performed little better. Galling was that the favourite for a bang in form […]
Another small profit on Saturday, which was a pity as the post highlighted all six winners including 10/1 Il Ridoto in the big race; and four of the six exactas (1-2) which paid £8.10, £60.60, £8.50 and £21.80! There's plenty to go at again today, with jumps racing from Leicester, Plumpton and Exeter; and evening […]
A 49% ROI (£24 to £35.70) with Friday's Tix play at Cheltenham was more fun and giggles than rock and roll, but it keeps things ticking over. There's a bumper Saturday menu today, with the Paddy Power Gold Cup highlighting Cheltenham's November fixture, as well as high class action at Navan and competitive racing at […]
A nice win for Chris with Thursday's Tix play at Chelmsford, and there's plenty to go at today, Friday, with racing from Cheltenham's November meeting, as well as Newcastle, Punchestown and Southwell over jumps, and Wolverhampton and Dundalk this evening on the sand. If you're new around here, it's worth taking a moment to familiarise […]
A small winner on Saturday and a loser yesterday, and on we go to Tuesday. Chris is 'transitioning' from cold Lancashire to warm, sunny Bali for... checks notes... the next four weeks! Lucky bugger. He'll still be helping out from there, though, so he will be taking Tix Picks forward after this one from me... […]
A losing day on Friday, stakes of £18 returning only £4.33 after a leg 2 bomb out left just one 'C' ticket (below) remaining. That's often the case, of course, and on we go. Recap: What is Tix? A video explainer can be found here. You need a tote account to use Tix. Sign up […]
I was right to forecast soft ground for Salisbury yesterday. In fact, not quite right enough, because the fixture was abandoned an hour and a half before racing was scheduled to go ahead. What a shame for their big day of the year. To Friday, but first... What is Tix? A video explainer can […]
We're spending this week trying to formulate the optimal way to present Tix Picks, and what has immediately become apparent is the misleading nature of the early overnight markets. The upshot of that may be that we need to either publish much later the evening before or, better from an accuracy perspective/worse from an accessibility […]
Tix is software designed to help you make better multi-race (placepot, jackpot, etc) tote bets. A sister product to geegeez.co.uk, conceived and built by the same brains behind this website and its racing software, Tix is essentially a staking and placement tool. It optimizes your stakes and automatically places bets on your say so. Get […]
