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Patrick Weaver

@patrickweaver.bsky.social
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One-time racing journalist, in retirement. Happy to analyse and tip on French races, also English if you would like.

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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Thanks so much. You have made Mondays fun for a small group ... some addicts aka "professionals". I'm really grateful 🙏. Best wishes Patrick
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
At least 2 right, could be 4/4.
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
A Goodwood B Wye C Lincoln D Portsmouth
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Missing you already.
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
3 Goodwood (late left field idea)
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Is Aldershot / Tweseldown the only former course with a mound on the inside at the finish? Everyone seems to agree that no4 is Aldershot. I'm amazed. I've no idea about any of them.
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Catching up. Would have got Folkestone and have guessed Donny. Recycle old pics. No problem with that.
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I don't like the app and use my phone, tablet and PC to access www.racingpost.com I worked out my lays yesterday quicker than usual, as they have improved Topspeed layout.
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Hear hear
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Used a different phone, with my saved password in it. I can contribute again. Woo hoo. I would have got Exeter, but I mistook Lewes for Goodwood. 😕
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Been to the old Stockbridge track when Ken Cunningham-Clown trained there. Couldn't see anything to suggest it was a racecourse other than his stables, which I think were the originals. Lovely wide grass gallops, as above.
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
But what if a horse fell rather than ''was well beaten''? Are they the same for this purpose?
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Thanks. I have proved to Bluesky that ''I am what I am'' so can now contribute answers. Is it 12.30 UK when they are released?
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Just worked out where that is on the Cheltenham course that was. Coming downhill from the road to Broadway and the racecourse station, past the paddock, and on to the track in front of the stand. I saw one Gold Cup start there in the 60s AFTER the long circuit behind the stands had gone.
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Will the politics in the programme take a turn to the left, RD?
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I thought so too. Good enough to win a Gr3 or Listed I would have thought.
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
www.greyhoundderby.com/Maiden%20Erl... It is next to Earley
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Maiden Erlegh Racecourse
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Not at Earley? Coincidence that there is an Erlegh and an Earley? Bon noel.
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
A re-think . . . No, it looks like the July course with the stands on the other side out of the picture?
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
St Leger was on the Rowley, rather than the July?
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
I know of many closed courses, particularly in the south but not Maiden Erleigh.
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
How far down or up the straight would the racegoers be at York? No winning post in the photo.
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
A full house of a kind for @ruatrindade.bsky.social
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Migrant barracks From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
It was the only one of the four that I didn't have to think about. It hasn't changed a bit.
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Well done anyway. I think you are right with 4, too.
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Clock tower is clearly Manchester. Surprised that no-one got that. Ive seen similar photos before. I can figure out Hexham, having seen the answer. Salisbury is obvious. Haydock I never get, always bowled centre stump with photos of it. I never went to Haydock, but have been to Chester n Aintree.
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Amazed that was 3-1. I can see York, at a stretch. The others not at all.
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Did you mean 2 Ascot 3 Ally Pally?
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Yes. 3 has to be Alexandra Park now that I've seen your answer. They are above the handle of the frying pan below the palace and you can see the rails at the V. Well done, Rob.
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
1 Pontefract? 2 Ascot?
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
4 is definitely Salisbury, fingers crossed 🤞
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Merlyn Edwards @allmanbros2.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
1 WIncanton
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
3. WORCESTER 4 FOLKESTONE
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Still popular over here in 🇫🇷. I'm 70 but can testify that the younger generation 25+ all know Desireless and Voyage Voyage. In a trade-off I am now a fan of Mylene Farmer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1Le...
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
West End Girls
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Need to get back in the Monday habit. I see I have missed at least one Lingfield. Damn and blast.
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
#2 Lincoln. Je pense?
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
1 Riopn 2 Hurst Park 3 Exeter 4 Newbury
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Re the Sandown photo, I never knew there was an era when owners, trainers wore bowler hats rather than trilbys. I thought it was Trilbys and Panamas since the war.
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
One out of three ain't bad. 👍
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Not wild at all. A short-price favourite in my book.
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
1 Sandown pre-parade ring 2 Newbury 3 Folkestone 4 Northolt
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I've never seen any photos of Pershore, and I looked quite hard at one point. Even went to its location.
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Not at all. Lingfield's stands were always significant.
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
www.greyhoundderby.com/Scarborough%... Seemingly a different location, as the turn of the century racecourse was seemingly at Seamer Moor.
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SCARBOROUGH RACECOURSE
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Charm Park, Scarborough! Do you or Merlyn know if the racecourse of old was at this location, or elsewhere?
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Grand set of photos again. Thanks for doing this every week.
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
1 Bournemouth 2 Perth 3 Wolves 4 Salisbury
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