As a horse racing researcher, there are good days and bad days, writes Dave Renham. On good days I research an idea and find that the data connected with it is interesting and robust enough to dissect and eventually use for an article. On bad days the idea or ideas I research seem to constantly […]
Favourites in All-Weather (AW) Racing in 2026 Friends of mine who go racing once or twice a year often ring me up beforehand asking for some ‘tips’, writes Dave Renham. My initial reply is always the same, “what exactly do you mean by tips?” And their answer is invariably the same, “winners Dave, I want […]
An in depth look at 7f handicaps at Kempton Park I have mentioned several times before that I am a great believer in specialising when it comes to betting on horse racing, writes Dave Renham. On that note, this article revisits an idea I looked at in February last year, that of honing in on […]
Boxing Day – To bet or not to bet, that is the question! For avid fans, racing on Boxing Day is something to be cherished, usually for one of two reasons, writes Dave Renham. Firstly, the day includes one of the major steeplechases of the year, the King George at Kempton; and secondly, there is […]
An analysis of Racing Post’s Topspeed (TS) on the All-Weather, Part 2 This is the second article of two looking at the performance of the Racing Post’s speed ratings, known as Topspeed, in races on the all-weather (AW), writes Dave Renham. In the first piece, which you can read here, I looked at a variety […]
An analysis of Racing Post’s Topspeed (TS) on the All-Weather, Part 1 One of the reasons Geegeez has won the Best Betting Website award eight times since 2017 has been because it has not stood still, with upgrades and improvements made on a regular basis, writes Dave Renham. We have seen that again this December […]
I have been researching horse racing for just over 25 years now, so I have delved into a lot of different areas and ideas, writes Dave Renham. Some have provided profitable angles, some have not. I tend to write up an article after I have done the research so that I have all the stats […]
NH Trainers and distance travelled We know that trainers have their own personalised methods of training horses, as well as how they go about placing horses in terms of which races they are going to run in, writes Dave Renham. In this article I will examine the records of certain trainers in terms of the […]
Top ten front running biases in handicap chases, Part 2 – 5 to 1 In this second article of two, I will be sharing what I believe to be the Top Five run style biases in handicap chases in the UK and Ireland, writes Dave Renham. In the first article, which you can read here, […]
The Top 10 front running biases in handicap chases Part 1 – 10 to 6 Over the next two articles I will share what I believe to be the Top Ten current run style handicap chase front running biases in the UK and Ireland, writes Dave Renham. In this first half, I will reveal positions […]
An exploration of Irish National Hunt trainers using the Geegeez Query Tool Gold members of Geegeez have so many benefits and for the first part of this article I am going to discuss how I used one of these, the Query Tool, to obtain a wealth of trainer data, writes Dave Renham. The second part […]
Prepping for the Jumps - Part 5, Bumpers This the fifth and final article in a series which has been looking forward to the National Hunt season, writes Dave Renham. In the previous piece I discussed handicap hurdles, while for this one, National Hunt Flat races, often called Bumpers, take centre stage. For convenience, the […]
Prepping for the Jumps - Part 4, Handicap Hurdles This the fourth article in a series looking forward to the National Hunt season, writes Dave Renham. In the opening part, linked to below, I discussed novice hurdle races, and today I am going revisit the hurdle theme but this time we'll be looking at all […]
Preparing for the Jumps - Part 3, Handicap Chases In this third article in a series looking forward to the National Hunt season we'll continue last week's chase theme, this time focusing on non-novice handicap chases, writes Dave Renham. That is, any handicap chase without the term ‘novice’ in the title. As before, data has […]
Preparing for the jumps – Part 2, Novice Chases This the second article in a series which is looking forward to the National Hunt season, writes Dave Renham. In the first piece I looked at non-handicap novice hurdle races. In this one, I will focus on novice chasers. I plan to look at both non-handicap […]
