'He loved racing and the job he did - and he was very good at it' - Timeform writer Geoff Greetham fondly remembered

Geoff Greetham might count as the archetypal Yorkshireman: opinionated, yet totally devoted to those he worked with and for; vocal, yet widely admired and remembered as “a good egg” by one who knew him for more than half a century.

His trenchant views were expressed most often in Timeform's Racehorses and Chasers & Hurdlers annuals.

Although the essays carried no bylines, there was no mistaking the authoritative logic and the entertaining prose that characterised Greetham’s painstaking efforts.