Mainly for old knackers, see if you can drum up the answers.
May I wish all members a very merry Christmas, a happy New Year, and kind wishes for the future.
I know the quiz will test some and demand a bit of research. I hope you like it.
Kind regards, John.
1. In the olden days, coaches and horses used to ride across the sands as the shortest route to the headland near this racecourse. Many perished, misjudging the ferocious high tide-likewise the cockle pickers in more recent times.
The crowds flock here on Whit Saturday and Monday- originally the only two days racing each year.
Which racecourse am I?
2. We went to school together and later holidayed regularly in France.
My friend won a famous steeplechase in France and became a famous trainer, but I am the only jockey to have won both the Lincoln Handicap and the Grand National.
Who are we?
3. I’m the smallest horse ever to win the Grand National- and the last entire.
My jockey was the youngest to ever win the race, and he won two more Nationals in that same year.
Who am I?
4. I finished first in two Classics but won neither.
My owner’s family was hated- all caused by an iceberg.
Who am I?
5. My mother won the Northumberland Plate,
My dad won the Derby before me,
My jockey suffered a cruel fate,
Undefeated, I’m remembered every May on the Dee.
Who am I?
6 . I competed and ‘bloomed’ at the top level for six years , winning fifteen big races.
My dad won Europe’s top race and I was inducted into the American Horse Racing Hall Of Fame. Who am I?
7. I won seven on the reel as a novice hurdler. My rider was the man who lost his bet with his fellow Irish jockey in the 1964 Cheltenham Gold Cup. The following season I won the Champion Hurdle at big price – my trainer having won the race three years before.
Who am I?
8. My brother married the daughter of a famous jockey known as the ‘head waiter.’
Their daughter married another famous jockey.
I married the daughter of another famous jockey.
Who am I?
9. I began my three year old campaign by carrying 6st 7lbs in the Lincolnshire Handicap- but lost by a head.
I ran a total of twelve times that same season, winning six Stakes Races.
I bruised my foot before the Epsom Derby ; was left at the start and could only finish fourth.
My dad won the Derby and my mum was a full sister to that answer in question 5 above.
I am held in the hand by royalty.
Who am I?
10. I am in the town where the Romans kept dairy herds two thousand years ago.
I have a stiff uphill finish , right handed within the walled course.
I border the old Kingdom of Wessex and lie on the old Roman road.
Which racecourse am I?
Well done. Merry Christmas all. 
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