Geegeez Wins… Again Again Again!

It's awards season again and, for the... checks notes... sixth time in seven years, geegeez.co.uk has been voted 'Best Betting Website'. As well as that, the site has been voted 'Best Betting Data Resource', and chief writer and site owner Matt Bisogno was chosen as 'Best Betting Writer'.

The SBC Awards have been running for more than a decade and, as an independent barometer of the betting public, they are highly anticipated. As such, everyone at geegeez.co.uk is delighted to regain the Best Betting Website award after slipping to second, a nose behind Oddschecker, last year. That was the only blip in a run of Gold medals stretching all the way back to 2017, and we're thrilled that the public vote has restored us to the top of the pile.

In fact, geegeez.co.uk polled almost a quarter of all votes, with Oddschecker a fairly distant second, collecting 14% of votes cast. The high profile trio of betting.betfair.com, sportinglife.com and racingpost.com were in a photo for third place, edged by the first named.

Pete Ling, who heads up the SBC Awards, wrote,

"Matt Bisogno and his team have been consistent podium finishers in past SBC Awards and some additions to their service over the last year appear to have been very popular, restoring them to a position that they held for five consecutive years prior to 2022."

The Best Betting Data Resource award is a newer category, introduced only last year. geegeez.co.uk scooped that inaugural running, and we extended our advantage this time around, polling a whopping 30% of the votes cast. In second place was timeform.com, who received a very respectable 24% of votes, with no other site securing more than 7% of the total votes.

Whilst geegeez.co.uk offers a huge amount of free editorial and deep dive analytical content for UK and Irish racing fans, our premium product is Geegeez Gold, which is a horseracing betting data resource; so it's extremely heartening to know that you value the service we provide so highly - thank you.

Here's Pete Ling again:

"GeeGeez’s popularity with punters was confirmed in the ‘Best Betting Data Resource’ category as they also clinched this title, thus securing themselves a well-earned double with just over 30% of the vote."

You can download the SBC Awards in full from this page >

And finally, in the Best Betting Writer category, Matt Bisogno was a short head winner in an excellent field, with Kevin Blake a close second, and notables such as Simon Nott, Lydia Hislop, Tony Calvin and Simon Rowlands also in the line up.

On hearing the news, Matt said, "I'm absolutely thrilled that geegeez.co.uk has won the two main website awards - for the first time, both together - and that so many members of the betting public put us at the head of their lists. Regarding the writer award, that's a huge surprise and probably not justified on recent scarce evidence; perhaps I built up enough of a lead late last year when a good bit more prolific with my contributions, to nick this race from the front. It's a pleasure and no small honour to be in the same list as some of those other names, many of whose work I read religiously. Thank you to everyone who voted for geegeez.co.uk in these awards - it means an awful lot to all of us."

Bisogno continued,

"geegeez.co.uk is a team game, with what we offer only possible through the continual hard work of 'vice-captain' Chris; techie gurus Nige, Dave M, Tom, and Andrey; analysts and scribblers Dave Renham, David Massey, and Tony Stafford; and some great raw data sourced from the likes of Racing Post, TPD, Press Association, the BHA, Goalserve and Peter May - over which we sprinkle our 'magic dust'. There are a lot of moving parts and we're lucky enough to have many skilled hands to make relatively light work of most of the challenges we face. We've a lot more planned for the second half of 2023, so stay tuned!"

A BIG 'Thank You' Offer to Free geegeez.co.uk Subscribers

Thanks again to everyone who voted and, if you're not currently a Gold subscriber, you can sign up now for a month's trial for just £1, whether you're brand new to the site or have tried Gold out before. This offer is available only until the weekend, and gives full access to the site throughout Royal Ascot, Newcastle's Northumberland Plate meeting, Sandown's Eclipse and Newmarket's July Festival, as well as the Irish Derby fixture, and the Festival meetings at Bellewstown and Killarney.

Click here to take your "we're so giddy from winning gongs we don't care if you've trialled Gold before" £1 trial

(must think of a catchier name)

Matt, and the Geegeez Newsdesk team

p.s. even if you can't afford Gold normally and therefore have no intention of staying on beyond your month's free trial, you're very welcome to take the trial. We know that stuff costs plenty just now, and if you're a pennies punter we try to provide as much as possible with free Gold races and a free Gold 'Feature of the Day' every day - as well as all of our editorial being free to read. And this month, for 3p a day, you can put Geegeez Gold to work for you all day, every day for a full month. Here's the link again >

p.p.s. thank you again for your votes, and for being part of the geegeez.co.uk family

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