On the Gee Gees?

British, informal. : a horse —used especially by children or when referring informally to horse racing Daddy has a bet on the gee-gees.

Why do British call horses Gee-Gees?

GG or gee-gee is a word for horse used by children or in colloquial speech in UK. ... Wikipedia says that the term "Gee-Gee" is taken from horse-racing where a Gee-Gee is the first horse out of the starting gate. Other sources say that GG is short for the command given to horses to go: "gee up".

Where did the term gee-gees come from?

Henry Gee died in 1545, but his name is remembered in the running of the Henry Gee Stakes for three-year-old maidens at the July meeting, and possibly also in the old, but still commonly-used, English nickname for racehorses: Gee-Gees. This definition of gee-gee says it is a UK child's word for horse.