If you see 2 blue or 2 green hats, pick the opposite colour. If you don't , then pick "pass." 6 combinations are right, 2 are wrong. Therefore good chance of success ie. 75%.
Even I got that straight away. What mathematical symbol can be put between 5 and 9, to get a number bigger than 5 and smaller than 9?
Correct Joe. A blind-folded man is handed a deck of 52 cards and told that exactly 10 of these cards are facing up. How can he divide the cards into two piles (possibly of different sizes) with each pile having the same number of cards facing up?
Can anyone name the horse that started as favourite for the 2m Irish Sweeps Handicap Hurdle(as it was named then and the richest h'cap hurdle at the time) and the 4m NH chase at the festival in the same year?...strangely enough he ran in the 4 mile chase first.
Dex - The first race was called the Irish Sweeps Handicap Hurdle from 1969 - 1986 (it was then renamed the Ladbroke) so it must have been in that timeframe. That's all
Going back to the Stan Bowles question although I'm sure Mick Channon can be quoted as saying that, I'm sure nearly every Rs fan of the 70s could as well, and probably before Mick Channon did. As an owner of that literary masterpiece 'the Biography of Stan Bowles' I can tell you that the accepted first person to articulate that phrase was the wonderfully named Ernie Tagg, manager of Crewe Alexandra (64-70), who took Stan under his wing after his ejection from Man City and failure at Bury. While Manager of Crewe Ernie was also a local milkman. As this is a Horse Racing Forum I guess Mick Channon had a connection, unfortunately I have no idea whether Ernie delivered the milk on a horse drawn float.
It is a bit of a toughie Ron and probobly not in any contemporary publications.It just popped into my head on the 4M race thread. Answer;Deep Gale owned by JP McManus and trained by Eddie O'Grady...1980.
DExter, that was a real tester! Try these two... 1. In which year were more National Hunt races lost to the weather than any other? Racing was cancelled on 5th January that year. When did it resume? 2. In the 1962/63 season, Mill House won the Gold Cup . Which horse gave weight and a beating to him prior to Cheltenham?
Oddy the h'cap hurdle race used to be run between Christmas and the new year so was in effect 9 months post Cheltenham...he was,if memory serves,an enigmatic horse and the Irish have always been less constrained than us when targeting their horses at different races.For example,until recently,it was unheard of over here to alternate top class horses between hurdles and fences. Tam,I'll get on to those...bit before my time mind you..only 11 when the above races were run!!
