Geegeez Autumn Update

November 17, 2025
Matt Bisogno

It's getting darker earlier, and there's a distinct chill in the air this week. The turf flat season is a fading memory and close at hand now is the National Hunt season proper as well as a serious programme of all-weather racing. Both make for excellent punting!

While it might seem like we've been quiet on the development front this year, we've actually added some big (and small) features in 2025.

The TRENDS tab was introduced in January, and has become part of my 'go to' considerations for a race.

In April, we rolled out Betfair data (Betfair SP, Place SP, in running high and low prices) across the site.

And in September we added 'AvOR', the average official rating of each race, to help you compare today's race quality with runners' recent outings.

You'll also have noticed this year that parts of the site have had a 'facelift' - updating them to be easier on the eye as well as instructive to your wagering.

And we're not done yet!

We're currently working on some further Query Tool updates, as well as more costmetic upgrades. Allow me to show you a few things from the development site.

Query Tool

We'd originally decided on a small number of new variables in QT to release as soon as possible... but once we started digging we found a few technical elements that ideally needed improving. That has delayed release unfortunately, but I'm still able to show you a couple of bits here.

New Variables

We've added some new variables for you to interrogate. These are:

Season

You'll soon be able to search by season, across flat, all-weather, and National Hunt seasons in both UK and Ireland. This is great for analysing, for example, trainers' and jockeys' progression (or regression!) and - especially for the non-flat seasons, where things are not aligned to calendar year - looking at overall stats more generally.

Below for example I've selected the trainer Anthony Honeyball, whose yard geegeez.co.uk sponsors and with whom we syndicate a number of horses, and 'grouped by' season (having only selected UK and NH race types - Anthony has also had flat winners and winners in Ireland during this time).

Anthony Honeyball stats by season

Owner

You'll also be able to drill down by owner before long. And, because some ownership entities have, literally, hundreds of ownership names, we've added a 'select all' button within the search facility. Here's an example using the geegeez.co.uk ownership entities. You'll be able to dig in the weeds of J P McManus, the Ballydoyle cartel, and/or anyone else you fancy.

Racing Post Rating and RPR Rank / Topspeed and TS Rank

And we've added Racing Post Rating and Topspeed, as well as RPR/TS Rank within a race (e.g. RPR rank 1 means the top rated horse on Racing Post Ratings). This image shows the top two ranked Topspeed horses' collective performance over the past two years in UK handicap hurdle/chase races. This is bound to include some big-priced winners skewing the data, but it's not a bad starting point for further analysis by any means!

PRB

The eagle-eyed may have noticed that we've added a new column on the right hand side of the results output in Query Tool for PRB (Percentage of Rivals Beaten). This is a very useful metric, especially for smaller sample sizes, where a number from around 0.55 (55% of rivals beaten) is a positive, and anything below (0.45) is somewhat of a negative. It's definitely a number to keep an eye out for when creating your QT Angles.

A New Look for the Reports

As well as QT upgrades, we're also working on our report suite and, specifically, on making it a little more modern in look (the data remains the same excellent content you're already familiar with). They'll look like this:

Timeline for Implementation

I've already got this wrong once, which is annoying/embarrassing, and so I'm loth to make the same mistake again. However, I'd be very hopeful they'll appear on your screens - the report changes at least - by the end of the month.

Query Tool upgrades should be an early Christmas present, expect them online in the first half of December with a following wind.

And... in January, we'll be kicking off the New Year in style. More on that another day.

Thanks as ever for being a geegeez subscriber, it means a huge amount to me - to all of us - and it enables us to continue to invest in your racing site. Thanks again!

Matt