Just a bit of fun for the New Year. Some of the questions are quite testing- and will suit the oldies like me. See if you can have a go at a completed list- without posting part or single answers. All the best to everyone for 2016. 1. Name the horse whose win marked the first ever winner on the Flat by a female trainer. 2. Which Habitat two year old colt won a five runner Group One at the amazing odds of 100-1? 3. I won 15 big races and competed for six years. I was UK Horse of The Year. My dad won Europe’s top race. Who am I? 4. My mother won the Northumberland Plate. My dad won the Derby before me. My rider suffered a cruel fate. I’m remembered every year on the Dee. Who am I? 5. I was once a stable mate of the best of them all, They gave me no chance at spring’s famous meet, When horses and jockeys proceeded to fall, I just galloped on and won by a street. Who am I? 6. Which British racecourse now has a greyhound track in a town where the Romans used to keep dairy herds- signified by its Latin name? 7. I won the race as a two year old- and the again at three. Robert Sangster put up the Money. Peter and Scobie both liked me. Who am I? 8. As a three year old, I bolted and ran round the course next to the river Irwell- but I still won the famous autumn handicap. I then raced until I was eleven, winning another 29 races- seven of them at Brighton. Who am I? 9. I won seven races in Spain- and then big staying races in France. I came over to England and finished first in Ascot’s stayer’s prize. I then took up jumping and won Cheltenham’s crown. Who am I? 10. Which horse holds the fastest winning time for the Derby?
Stick, well done! Right on all three counts. No. 10 was a trick question. I didn't mention the Epsom Derby, so Dante has the fastest time at Newmarket. If you've been to Towcester, you see the sign "Lactodorum" as you drive into town.
Spot on! A very classy stayer who dropped dead after winning the Champion Hurdle. He was controversially disqualified- and I think unfairly- after winning the Ascot Gold Cup.
1 Not confident but Precipice Wood trained by Rosemary Lomax above answers: Hittite Glory was a well-bred Habitat colt out of a lovely filly Dick Hern trained for Brook Holiday to win what was the equivalent of the Mill Reef Stakes in 1969. Her colt foal was cheaply bought by Ravi Tikoo and won the Flying Childers Stakes. To prove it was no fluke he won the Middle Park as well. Be Friendly won the Vernons Sprint Cup ( theSangster family owned Vernons Pools). He was owned by Peter O'S and often ridden by Scobie Breasley. Sea Pigeon was a Sea Bird colt owned by Jock Whitney and trained by Jeremy Tree. He ran in the 1973 Derby. A bit of a rogue once gelded he became very genuine and graced the flat and hurdles tracks for many a year at the highest class.
8 Damredub Kept thinking it must be the Cambridgeshire but think you are talking about the Manchester November Handicap when it was still run at Manchester. Damredub, like Be Hopeful and Trelawny was a horse I knew little about but always seemed to be winning in my youth. This quiz makes me feel very old.
