Entries by Dave Renham

Measuring the impact of a Tongue Tie

Don’t get tongue tied talking about tongue ties! Firstly, let me apologise for the title of this piece, writes Dave Renham – it is simply my attempt at humour! However, it certainly points us in the right direction for the subject of today's article.     Introduction A tongue tie is a piece of material, […]

Uttoxeter 3m Handicap Chases: Deep Dive

3-mile handicap chases at Uttoxeter: a deep dive Last month, I wrote a piece on 7-furlong handicaps at Kempton, writes Dave Renham. That was the second time I had looked at a specific course and distance in this way. Certain types of races on the all-weather lend themselves to the approach as there are many […]

Miscellaneous Jump Racing Angles

Four Micro Research Angles There are times when researching ideas for Geegeez that I find something worth sharing, but it does not lend itself to a whole article, writes Dave Renham. In this piece, then, I am going to share four areas I have researched – I’ll call them micro areas. Each will start with […]

The ‘Super Six’ NH Jockeys: What Happened Next?

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 […]

A Look at Favourites in All-Weather Races

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 […]

Kempton 7f Handicaps: Deep Dive

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?

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 […]

Topspeed Ratings on the All-Weather, Part 2

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 […]

Topspeed Ratings on the All-Weather, Part 1

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 […]

Thinking Out Loud: Trainer ‘P’ Form

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: Short vs Long Distance Travellers

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 […]

An Irish National Hunt Trainers Analysis

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 NH 2025/26, Part 5: National Hunt Flat

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 […]

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