I Don’t live in Newmarket, so how….?

[tarmon]

…can I answer these quiz questions..

1) After criticism of the dress standards being adopted by some individuals on Newmarket Heath in the mornings, which current, prolific letter-writing trainer rode out next day in a particularly smart tie – but wearing shorts, wellington boots and no shirt at all?

2) Name two of the three horses which landed a famous treble for Mark Tompkins at Ascot’s 1991 Festival of Racing.

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3) After a contretemps with Mark on the heath one morning, whose assistant trainer later famously asked his dual Derby-winning employer: “Why did Mr. Tompkins question your parentage, Guvnor”?

Any help would be appreciated.

[smallbutmighty]

…can I answer these quiz questions..

1) After criticism of the dress standards being adopted by some individuals on Newmarket Heath in the mornings, which current, prolific letter-writing trainer rode out next day in a particularly smart tie – but wearing shorts, wellington boots and no shirt at all?

2) Name two of the three horses which landed a famous treble for Mark Tompkins at Ascot’s 1991 Festival of Racing.

……………………………………………… …………………………………………

3) After a contretemps with Mark on the heath one morning, whose assistant trainer later famously asked his dual Derby-winning employer: “Why did Mr. Tompkins question your parentage, Guvnor”?

Any help would be appreciated.

What quiz are the questions from?

I don’t live in Newmarket either but can hazard a guess at the first one (as far as my thinking goes, the letter writing is a big clue and I have seen photos of him strangley attired on a horse!), and so could research on the internet to check.

Presume you aren’t actually asking about No.2 as that is factual and race records would show it (or was this a quiz you had to answer on the hoof?)

No.3 How many Newmarket trainers have won the Derby twice? Can’t be THAT many surely – and it asks for the name of the trainer, not the assistant who asked the question. It says ‘famously’ asked so perhaps the quote appears – perhaps in one of the RP books or something?

[tarmon]

Thanks for your observations.
Would you be thinking Sir Mark Prescott for (1)?
I have the answer for (2).
(3) Must be Cumani or Haggas, but which?

[Smithy]

Would be surprised if number one wasn’t John Berry.

[cormack15]

Haggas isn’t a ‘dual’ Derby winner trainer is he? Must be Cumani then.

[tarmon]

Sorry – I meant Chapple-Hyam , not Haggas!

[smallbutmighty]

Sorry – I meant Chapple-Hyam , not Haggas!

Yes John Berry is who I was thinking of too.

PC-H didn’t used to train at Newmarket so not that likely to be him surely?

Howabout Henry Cecil for No 3?

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