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Innovative and fun quiz, Greenasgrass:
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FehilyAssuming my answer is correct, for the next question I would like to resurrect a good one from Seasider:
In which year did the Cheltenham Gold Cup feature 5 winners of that race (2 previous, 2 future, and the winner in the required year).
Feel free to answer it, Seasider, as the suspense is killing me :)
Thanks, GM.
At the risk of killing you a bit more, here’s a clue.
In addition to the five Gold Cup winners, a former Champion Hurdler also lined up for this contest. The horse won his Champion Hurdle when under the care of a different trainer to the one who saddled him for this Gold Cup.
The Gold Cup trainer once stood trial at the High Court charged with perverting the course of justice in a well-publicised case unrelated to horse racing.
Thank goodness for the clue, Seasider, I’m convinced the answer is 1991.
That year’s renewal featured previous winners Desert Orchid (1989) and Norton’s Coin (1990), future victors Cool Ground (1992) and The Fellow (1994), and was won by Garrison Savannah. The field also contained former Champion Hurdler Celtic Shot (1988 when trained by Fred Winter) who was now under the care of Charlie Brooks, were I to give my opinion of whom might find me in the High Court charged with libel!
Am I reprieved :)
Accurate on every point, GM. Well done for earning yourself at least a stay of execution.
CB lives not far from my home, and is said to sometimes visit a local hostelry or two. Luckily I haven’t been there myself when that has happened.
Cheers, Seasider. Continuing the morbid tone:
Who was the first Grand National winner to suffer a fatal injury in a later renewal?
Great try Crepello, I haven’t checked my records exhaustively but I think poor Rag Trade is the second and hopefully final. However, the first unfortunate creature was a considerable time earlier.
Yes, well done, Crepello.
Miss Mowbray was the second victorious mare, runner-up in 1853, nobbled shortly before the race in 1854 (when she had been the favourite) by malevolent forces at the course, and in 5th with every chance when breaking her neck and back at second Becher’s in 1855.
Over to you.
Would anyone else like a go? I’ve just complied a large racing quiz for a Facebook racing group and I am running out of ideas…….
Everyone moans at mine being too hard as well.Okay, here’s one:
Which Grand National winning trainer, in the year of his triumph, suffered such serious injuries when his horse and cart toppled down an embankment that he never fully recovered and died just 19 months after his great success?
A clue is that the trainer in question’s older brother rode in the three Nationals prior to his sibling’s successful one, all on the same horse (not the one his brother won with) and twice finishing 3rd. Evidently, however, he was not jealous.
Good try, Yeats, but the trainer in question is from a much earlier era. The trainer I’m looking for was born in Paris and along with the brother mentioned above also had another sibling who trained, as did their father. The subject of the question was part of the Epsom training centre, actually based in Sutton.
A clue is that the trainer in question’s older brother rode in the three Nationals prior to his sibling’s successful one, all on the same horse (not the one his brother won with) and twice finishing 3rd. Evidently, however, he was not jealous.
GM, that comment seems incongruous until one notices that Jealousy won the race in 1861 in the care of Charles Balchin. The trainer’s sad demise is recorded, amongst other places, in the epsomandewellhistoryexplorer, so I think he’s the answer you are looking for.
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