Patrick Weaver

Former racing editor/chief tipster of the Daily Express + Daily Star. Now a freelance analyst of UK/Fr races. Intuitive post-race observations, not tips.

[Patrick Weaver @WeaverRacing]

On official ratings, GOLDEN ACE (below) should not be as long as 25-1.
15/8 The New Lion 159
9/4 Anzadam 157
25/1 Golden Ace 152 + 7lb mares' allowance 159.

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@paul1964Jam @juniejunus Keep on top of it.
Your PSA must remain "neglegible" "undetectable."

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@jamesdanw Did it taste as good as it looks? 😋

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@swfcrcb @swfc I thought we had tried that in the last 24 months but we have yet to find a gem, other than Pierce Charles.
City ... Wednesday ... City

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@AdamGray1867 @GoalShort @tommyuto Onegoalshort blocked me for saying in August what he is saying now.
Which I find rather amusing.
If you try to be unbiased (as a betting man I have to be) you can see the shortcomings of incoming staff.
e.g. compare Rohl's CV to Challinor. We may never have another Rohl sadly 😥

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@georgelerobot @tommyuto Have we one of the smallest? We brought in a lot of new faces, and several stayed on board HMS Hillsborough.

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@CharlyMilpied €3million prizemoney @TimHailstone

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Over €3m prizemoney over the weekend at Auteuil.

The 3yo hurdle alone is worth €258,000. Mad!

[Charly Milpied @CharlyMilpied]

🚨 Plus de 200 partants attendus ce week-end à Auteuil !

Place au grand sport avec nos sauteurs préférés.

Dites-moi quels seront vos chouchous pour ces 48h de pur spectacle !

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@RandomAndy2 Had a little drizzle here 11am-12. Should be bagging leaves 🍃 but I'm not. I'm the laziest of retirees.

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What a good line-up for Saturday's 3yo hurdle at Cheltenham 1.10.
It deserves to be as there is an £80k / €95,000 pot.
No Elliott or Mullins runner, but J O"B has ATOMIC CITY & Patrick Magee has ADMIRAL WILL BROWN.

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@p3rs3ver3 109 / 79 is quite a critical gap, assuming the numbers were accurately compiled.

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12.41 Market Rasen

Eastern Rock 7-4 or Ivor Bear 5-6?

Eastern Rock is napped by RP Ratings, Topspeed, Lambourn.

No-one has napped Ivor Bear 🐻.

ER Topspeed 109 RPR 116
IB Topspeed 79 RPR 114.

Surely Eastern Rock will start fav?

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@mrstuartmjames I concentrate on novice hurdles and the odds just looked out of kilter last night.
Generally leave Emma Lavelle's well alone and thought his jockey had given him too much to do ... 5l behind Supreme Force and Ivor Bear until "la line droite".

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Blow me me down.
The nap won as he liked by 5l+.
11-8 fav was 2.84 last night @BetfairExchange

That's it for the day 🫠

I'll see if Russell Brand is on Loose Women yet again.

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Not always right but EASTERN RICK is going off favourite.

Win or lose that makes sense.

[Patrick Weaver @WeaverRacing]

Not always right but EASTERN RICK is going off favourite.

Win or lose that makes sense.

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12.41 Market Rasen

Eastern Rock 7-4 or Ivor Bear 5-6?

Eastern Rock is napped by RP Ratings, Topspeed, Lambourn.

No-one has napped Ivor Bear 🐻.

ER Topspeed 109 RPR 116
IB Topspeed 79 RPR 114.

Surely Eastern Rock will start fav?

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@DubaiAce @RacingPost Papers have never worked like that, except maybe when the Queen died or war breaks out/ends.

I think a large happy photo of him in his prime is perfect, with the words inside. Not every day that WPM gets pushed to one side, which was the right thing to do.
T O'B prioritised.

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@hirsty9 Ugh. I hadn't kept up with injuries.

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@hirsty9 A lot of Twitterati say LB is an issue, but others hail Max Lowe and Reece James.
I think they are both above average Div 1 left backs.

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@TobyyBrandd 😉

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@NoJezza @Louchepunter Absolutely. I think that trend is irreversible now that they push casinos and ⚽️. I only use @BetfairExchange so have never had a problem, thankfully. I have £2,000+ tied up in politics and the prem. Laying not backing.

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@BrillskiTerry @FredDMot @quevega @Louchepunter I went every year once employed in the sport 1979-2018. And my boss (Rod Fabricius) moved from Lingfield to Goodwood, so there was an additional bond from 1982.
As a child/teen I will have attended every GG as dad took the week off 1960-71. Might have been 4 days, not Saturday.

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@TobyyBrandd Why carry on "supporting" them given you think so much is wrong with #mufc . If you shop at Iceland and don't like the shop management, the food, the prices, the layout you'd go down the road to Aldi or Lidl, no?
Why put yourself through it?