Last week, Dave Renham shared the beginnings of an experiment he’s been running based around two pieces of intel available on Geegeez Gold for all UK flat races.

Combining our SR rating with horses’ pace scores, he came up with a systematic approach to finding winners – and value.

And it started on fire!

So, in this follow up, Dave has another two weeks’ worth of results: did it continue to sizzle, or was it a damp squib?

Find out here.

Spoiler alert: things went, erm, fairly well..

A four-week trial of combining Pace with SR Ratings, Part 2 – THE RECAP 

This the second in a double header where I am sharing a very simple ‘system’ which I tested over a four-week period from May 1st 2026 to May 28th 2026, writes Dave Renham.

Before reading on, it would make sense to read the first piece if not done already and that can be found here.

Not everyone is a fan of systems, but my racing journey was enriched by reading books and articles by the racing systems ‘king’, Nick Mordin.

Hence, although I don’t tend to use rigid systems per se when selecting my bets, there are systematic elements that I do lean on within the whole process.

It should be noted that in order to find these system selections, a Geegeez Gold membership is required as that includes access to some of the key data needed.

To recap here are the ‘system’ rules:

• UK Handicap races only
• Race Distance 5f to 1m1f
• The Percentage of Rivals figure (PRB) for the ‘led’ group on the pace tab for the specific race conditions must be 0.60 or higher
• Horse must have one of the top three pace scores for the race
• Horse must have one of the top three SR ratings for the race

Note that if there were two joint third rated pace horses then both would potentially become a qualifier if either or both of their SR rating positions were also in the top three.

If there were three or more joint thirds, then I would count the two with the highest most recent race pace scores.

In terms of SR rating joint thirds, I need to include them all as I have no way of splitting them.

Also, if a horse had only three previous pace race scores, I would use their pace average figure to compare with the four race averages that most horses have. In this case, the horses with the three highest averages across either three or four past races would count.

I did not consider horses with one or two past scores.

Only Use Handicap Races

I mentioned in the first article that I am only using handicap races, as they give us the most reliable results for this type of idea.

In that first part I shared the results for weeks one and two.

Again, just to recap, these are below with profit/losses based on BSP (Betfair SP) less 2% commission.

Click here for the full four-week test results >>

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