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On 21st Jan, 7:30pm at Newbury Racecourse West Berkshire Racing Club are holding their annual racing quiz.
With teams from Racing Post, Raceform, trainers, etc.
Mike Cattermole, Tanya Stevenson, Graham Dench, Craig Thaike, Lee Mottishead, Geoff Lester, Alan King, Andrew Balding and Richard Philips have all competed in the past, most are stalwarts of the competition.
Are there any forumites that would like to take them on?
Can ask the organiser if TRF could enter a team if there are enough (4) people interested.
Mark
Value Is EverythingCan confirm that is a very funny evening usually. The compere is comical (albeit not necessarily by design) and there are usually a proper assortment of anoraks there…..usually in the Raceform team!
You calling me an anorak Smithy?
Surely not.
Compere is a friend of mine.
Mark
Value Is EverythingThat sounds like a fun plan. Not sure if my knowledge would be up to it though! If you are stuck for people to build a team then put me in but my knowledge of racing past is somewhat sketchy…
I was part of a winning team there once, Gingertipster. It was a while ago, so I assume Richard Lowther wasn’t representing Raceform that year!
There are two quizzes in one.
One is a normal question and answers. For the elite, Racing Post, Wetherbys, Freelance 4, Raceform and West Berks A (incl. me).
The other is the same questions but with multiple choice answers. For trainers teams, other racing clubs (Three Counties sends a team), and the rest.
As Smithy intimates the questions are difficult though. Will see if I can get hold of some of last years questions, so people can see if they might be up to it. If you like.
Mark
Value Is EverythingHard’s relative, I guess. Are they harder than the usual contents of a TRF chatroom quiz, say?
(By way of a guide, herewith once more the questions to the last quiz I ran on here in late 2007 (before anyone says a few of the questions are outdated now; I know!) – it was a fabulous evening, during which myself and Grasshopper invented the new adjective "un-beschlonged", I seem to recall…)
If they’re not appreciably harder than this, Ginger, I can probably be persuaded to participate.
gc
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GENERAL FLAT RACING
1) Who trained the mare Madame Jones to score 12 times on the Flat during 2001, 11 of them handicaps?
2) FILL THE BLANK IN THIS FINISHING ORDER; (1) Teofilo, (2) Holy Roman Emperor, (3) ……………, (4) Haatef (Newmarket, 14th October 2006).
3) The Hilary Needler Trophy, a Listed sprint for fillies, is an early season highlight at which Flat venue?
4) Which current Flat jockey is the subject of this excerpt taken from an interview in the Independent in June 2007; "[he] learned the ropes in show jumping before leaving for Yorkshire 19 years ago, and serving his apprenticeship with "Squeak" Fairhurst. ‘I spent a couple of months riding over jumps, and had one winner from about 30 rides,’ he recalled. ‘But then I broke two bones in my neck in a hurdle race at Newcastle, and I thought: ‘That’ll do!’ And I went on a diet’.
5) In which 3 years in the 1980s did Pat Eddery ride consecutive winners of the Prix de L’Arc de Triomphe? Bonus point for each horse named.
CHELTENHAM
6) Viking Flagship won the Queen Mother Champion Chase in 1994 and 1995 under different riders – name them.
7) What is the longest distance over which any race is run at Cheltenham?
8 ) I need a race and a year – which Cheltenham race was the first race legally shown live in UK betting shops?
9) FILL THE BLANK IN THIS 2007 FESTIVAL FINSHING ORDER: (1) Heads on the Ground, (2) ———————-, (3) Le Duc, (4) Spotthedifference.
10) What specifically was unusual about the winner of the 1996 Foxhunters’ Chase?
11) Last year’s Triumph Hurdle winner Katchit met with defeat only once during his juvenile hurdle season. Which horse beat him, and at what course did they do it?
12) Tied Cottage’s subsequent disqualification for testing positive for a banned substance promoted Master Smudge to winner of the 1980 Cheltenham Gold Cup. Who trained him?
13) Only three times in the last 20 years has the Top Jockey at the Cheltenham Festival ridden as many as five winners. Tony McCoy achieved the feat in 1998 – who are the other two jockeys to have managed the feat?
FAMOUS SILKS
Name the registered owners of the silks being described in each case;
14) Blue, green sleeves, white cap, green spots
15) Blue, orange disc, blue and orange striped sleeves, blue cap
16) White, green hoop, white cap, green hoop
17) Blue and white check, blue and white striped sleeves, blue cap
18 ) Green and yellow quarters, white sleeves, green cap
RACECOURSES
19) Which Flat venue is being described here; ‘A level, sharp, left-handed, circular course of 1m 73yds, with a short run-in of 230yds. A specialists’ track which generally suits the sharp-actioned horse’?
20) What is the name of the point-to-point venue in Devon autocratically run by Oliver Carter (of Venn Ottery fame)?
21) Bucking a trend of the last 15-20 years, what feature is Stratford racecourse planning to reintroduce next year?
22) A racecourse in the loosest sense of the word, perhaps, but between which two towns in County Cork did the first ever recorded steeplechase take place in 1752?
23) The Byfleet Stakes, a 1m 5f 40yds contest run at 4.30pm on October 10th 1962, was the last race ever to be held at which defunct racecourse?
THE DERBY
24) FILL THE BLANK IN THIS FINSHING ORDER: (1) Nashwan, (2) —————–, (3) Cacoethes, (4) Ile de Nisky. Bonus points for the year and missing horse’s starting price.
25) The name, please, of the Suffragette who threw herself in front of the King George VI’s horse in the 1913 Derby with fatal consequences, and the name also of the horse.
26) Clocking in at 2 minutes 33.27 seconds, which horse has recorded the fastest winning time in the Derby so far this decade?
27) Replace the question marks – Gordon Richards finally won the Derby on Pinza in 1953, at the ??th attempt.
LOST IN ACTION
28 ) On February 26th 1994, the Brian Baugh-trained War Beat became the last horse to be killed in which specific type of race?
29) Yesterday at Market Rasen David Cullinane became the third recipient of the Tom Halliday Memorial Scholarship, set up in memory of the young conditional rider killed there in July 2005. Who are the other two riders to have been awarded this prize to date?
30) Name the former Predominate Stakes winner lost in High Chapparal’s Derby.
SHARES SAME NAME
31) The winner of two of this summer’s biggest handicap chases; a Marvel Comics superhero.
32) A 1980s Mackeson Gold Cup winner; a US diplomat / Nobel Peace Prize winner
33) Dorothy "Golden Miller" Paget’s 1940s Champion Hurdle winner; the surname of a renowned French singer (dead)
34) A 1930s winner of the Epsom Derby; a long-running BBC childrens’ television programme
LAST FEW RANDOM ONES
35) Which 1990s winner of the National Hunt Handicap Chase had opened his account over fences with a win off a mark of just 81 in a novice handicap a year earlier?
36) NAME THE HORSE;
——————————- (IRE) 2003 b f
Danehill Dancer (IRE) – Specifically (USA)37) Name the three handlers to have raced Les Arcs.
38 ) Name the two Irish racecourses at which you may realistically expect the going to be described as Standard.
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Quote – during which myself and Grasshopper invented the new adjective “un-beschlonged”
Made my day that did, then and again today
Yes Jeremy,
I would say the questions are of a similar standard.
If you know the answer to all of those without looking them up Jeremy, you know more than me. I am in my WBRC team primarily for my knowledge about the recent season. There are (usually) others on my team with greater brain power for yester year. The beauty of 4 in a team is we all have different attributes / specialisations, and also can bounce things off each other "begins with B", or "the one in yellow with black epulets".
Our competion concentrates on the better racing. With titled sections might be say Pat Eddery or Martin Pipe or Spring Double etc. and two are always the last flat season and complete jumps season. Usually a few questions going back to the 60’s. 12 questions on each part. Sorry Jeremy no Point To Point section.
Anyone else?
Smithy are you interested again?Value Is EverythingIf you know the answer to all of those without looking them up Jeremy, you know more than me.
Nah, I don’t – I just write the questions! I’d have scored just under half on that lot if I’d come to them cold.
Sorry Jeremy no Point To Point section.
Pshaw! Pointing courses all around Newbury, and not a single question on the amateur game? Howls of derision, Ginger, howls of derision…
gc
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
I was part of a team in this five or six years ago, but was never invited back. No idea why…
I once won the individual ‘audience participation’ quiz – although I seem to remember that one or two of the posters above may have contributed to some of my answers…… (they can’t take it away from me now, can they?)
Am waiting for the organiser to get back to me.
Am just collecting possibles for now.
So far have got as possibles:
Lekha, Jeremy, JinnyJ,
Smithy and Sal I take it those are may be’s?
Happy Jack I take it that was a "not on your life"!
The more possibles the better as the best team can then be chosen.
Anyone else as a possible?
Mark
Value Is EverythingStill waiting for the organiser to ring back.
Any more interested?
Mark
Value Is EverythingWould love to be there, but Newbury midweek is a no-no unfortunately – I don’t finish work until at least 5:30 pm in my day job.
Anything at the weekend and in the Midlands would be a possible though.
Darren – AngloGerman
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Have recieved the go ahead from West Berkshire Racing Club for TRF to take part in their racing quiz.
Jan 21st 7:30pm Newbury Racecourse.
Taking on teams from the Racing Post, Raceform etc.
If anyone else wants to take part, do put your name forward here.
Value Is Everything
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