Most male horses begin their life on the flat as an entire, writes Dave Renham. At some point sooner or later - usually sooner - most horses disappoint their connections with racecourse performance and thus, in search of improvement, are gelded. Introduction The term "gelded" refers to the process of castrating a male horse, and […]
Dipping my toe into Race Class in flat handicaps Introduction I would like to start this piece with a question, writes Dave Renham. “When analysing a handicap race, how many of us look at the class of the race and other class factors in detail?” Clearly, I cannot speak for everyone, just for myself, but […]
The Vagaries of Early Speed: Soft Leads and Pace Collapses In recent years the question of pace in a race has become much more on punter’s radars, writes Dave Renham. When we watch flat racing on the television, pundits or commentators will almost always include a discussion about where the pace in the race is, […]
An Analysis of Place Betting on Betfair One of the comments about an article I wrote a couple of months ago asked whether I could write an article on the subject of place betting on Betfair, writes Dave Renham. I have written around a thousand horse racing articles in my life and, consequently, have covered […]
Newmarket July Meeting – a look at the past 10 years Later this week racing fans will enjoy the three-day Newmarket July Meeting, writes Dave Renham. Expect top quality action headlined by two Group 1s, the July Cup and the Falmouth Stakes, as well as four Group 2s. There will also be several decent handicaps […]
Using Tix for Jackpots, Placepots, Quadpots & the Scoop 6, primarily focusing on Placepots Geegeez readers should by now be aware of the online software called Tix, which Matt built in conjunction with the developer who built much of the coding for the original geegeez.co.uk racecards and form tools, writes Dave Renham. The Tix software […]
This is the second half of an analysis of jockey performance using the Percentage of Rivals Beaten metric, following this one I wrote back at the beginning of June, writes Dave Renham. This time, I will put the same 35 jockeys – those that have had the greatest number of rides on average per year […]
There are three festivals a year I get really excited about, writes Dave Renham. The Cheltenham Festival and Glorious Goodwood are two; and the third, which is soon to be upon us, is of course Royal Ascot. Around this time last year I looked in detail at the big 1-mile handicaps at the meeting - […]
In this article I will put 35 jockeys under the microscope, writes Dave Renham. These are the riders with the most rides per year, on average, over the past four years. The data has been taken from UK flat racing (turf and all-weather (AW) and the full years 2021 to 2024. Introduction I have further […]
Last week I shared my research into how the four-race pace totals on the Geegeez racecards performed across UK 5f handicaps in 2024 (excluding 2yo nurseries), writes Dave Renham. You can catch up with that article here. The results overall were impressive given we were looking essentially at raw figures with minimal additional ‘tinkering’. Introduction […]
In some recent articles I have extolled the virtues of the Geegeez Racecard for Gold members, for example, when looking at Dr Peter May’s ratings (the SR column), writes Dave Renham. Introduction Another huge bonus of these racecards is the pace tab. The pace tab shows the running styles of the horses for a maximum […]
It is several years since I analysed two-year-old (2yo) sire data and so, early in the flat season, I felt now was a good time to revisit, writes Dave Renham. This article examines eight years of UK flat racing data (turf and AW) spanning from 2017 to 2024. I will be comparing win strike rates, […]
This is the second of two articles looking at horses that have switched stables on the flat, writes Dave Renham. The first article looked at horses’ first run for a new yard, while this one examines the second run from that new stable. We’ll call them TC2 (Trainer Change 2nd Start). As I mentioned last […]
In my next two articles I am going to look at horses that have switched stables on the flat, writes Dave Renham. This one will look at the first run for a new yard, and the next one will examine the second run for new connections. The one stipulation is that the switch is from […]
For this article I am revisiting the ‘SR’ ratings which can be found each day on the Geegeez Gold racecard for UK races, writes Dave Renham. I wrote a piece in February looking at these ratings on the all-weather and, as the turf season has been going for just over three weeks now, I thought […]
