Got so engrossed watching celebration of Kauto Star on Racing UK forgot to do this
For what its worth these were the questions
Horses
1) The winner of the 2011 Arc de Triomphe was prevented from running in this year's race by an outbreak of Swamp Fever in which city?
2) Which Berkshire-trained horse started second-favourite for the Derby and finished unplaced?
3) Which 14-year-old went out on a high by winning the Becher Chase?
4) The 2008 Arc winner, Zarkava, has a half -brother who is proving top-class over hurdles. Name him.
5) Name the last male horse to win the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.
Jockeys
6) Which jockey was banned for hitting his horse after crossing the line at the Cheltenham Festival?
7) Which jockey was banned at Glorious Goodwood for taking his whip to Jamie Spencer?
8) Fighting under the ill-deserved nickname 'The Tank', which jockey boxed three rounds for charity in September?
9) Which jockey was unplaced in two races at Haydock, flew to Leopardstown and won the Irish Champion Stakes?
10) Which jockey achieved the best result yet for a woman in the Grand National by finishing third, beaten just five lengths?
We hardly knew ye
11) The winner of the 2011 Richmond Stakes made headlines through 2012 but, in the end, never ran. Name him.
12) The winner of the 2011 Dewhurst made headlines through 2012 - he was going to run in the Irish Guineas one weekend and the Derby the next - but, in the end, he never ran. Name him.
13) The winner of the 2011 Morny Stakes, unbeaten as a juvenile, ran twice in the spring, was beaten both times, was disowned by his jockey ("the chemistry isn't there between us") and hasn't raced since mid-May. Name him.
14) Which horse, having won her first two races, was a 4-1 shot for the Oaks during May but was instead sent to the French Oaks, where she was well beaten and sustained a career-ending injury?
15) Godolphin won the Fillies' Mile Stakes for a third year in a row. What figure do you get if you add together the number of post-Fillies' Mile runs by their previous two winners?
Trainers
16) Where, Was, Soon, Maybe and Though all raced for which trainer?
17) 7 July was a notable day for which trainer, who won the Eclipse and the Lancashire Oaks with horses who are brother and sister?
18) Name the former assistant to Paul Nicholls who has now set out on his own, with the Champion Hurdler as his stable star.
19) "If you'd spoken to me on Sunday, I was nearly cutting me throat." Which trainer was apparently in despair about his stable's form on the eve of what proved a highly successful Cheltenham Festival?
20) Name the winning trainer in this year's Irish St Leger, still best known for his exploits as a jockey on horses like Silver Buck and Buck House.
The guy who came second
21) Which horse may have been an unlucky loser at the Festival when the runners were directed around the last fence?
22) Which horse was beaten a nose in the Grand National after veering away from the whip and almost colliding with the rails on the run-in?
23) The Derby runner-up, previously unbeaten in four, has failed to win since. Name him.
24) Once again, a Japanese horse was second in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, after seeming to have the race at his mercy. Name him.
25) The hero of the Thirsk Hunt Cup in May has failed to win a race since. On the other hand, he has finished second in the Eclipse, the Sussex, the Juddmonte International and the Prix du Moulin. Name that unfortunate beast.
Which horse started favourite for the 2012 . . .
26) Cheltenham Gold Cup?
27) Oaks?
28) July Cup?
29) King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes?
30) Paddy Power Gold Cup Handicap Chase?
Rag bag
31) Sheikh Fahad said he would offer £1m in prize money for which race if both Frankel and Black Caviar turned up?
32) Pippy became the first horse to carry the colours of Wayne and Coleen Rooney when he took part in an eight-runner race at Chester in May. Where did he finish?
33) The 2008 Derby winner had a big Royal Ascot. The first three winners he had sired all won stakes races at the meeting. Name him.
34) Name the horse who was surely flattered to beat 16 rivals in the 1,000 Guineas by a storming nine lengths?
35) Which stallion died this year at the age of 16, three months before one of his sons gave him a fourth success in the Epsom Derby?
36) Name the jockey who must brush up his skills as a horse-dealer, having bought the current ante-post favourite for the Cheltenham Gold Cup as a yearling for €16,500, only to sell him two and a half years later for £20,000?
37) Which Newmarket trainer recently won his third Hong Kong Group One, seven years after the first?
38) At which course have four jockeys been banned for taking the wrong course in four separate incidents since January 2008? Three rode a finish one circuit too early while the fourth tried something new this year, failing to ride a finish when it was due.
39) Godolphin has owned the St Leger winner five times since 1998. How many of those five were ridden by Frankie Dettori?
40) This year's Melbourne Cup winner had spent his first two seasons in Lambourn with Harry Dunlop. Name the horse.
Who am I?
41) I came up from Oz in 2010 and I was the fastest thing around that summer. But it seems I'm not such a whizz with the ladies and I was returned to the track after flopping at stud. I didn't win anything this year but I've still got plenty of boot, as you all saw at the Breeders' Cup, when I ran the first three furlongs as if my tail was on fire.
42) My most valuable success in Britain this year was in the series final of Kempton's London Mile, so I guess you could say that I still haven't quite cracked it here. And there was that embarrassment over my riding a finish one circuit too soon at Wolves. But it clearly didn't kill off my mojo because, just three months later, I celebrated a winner in Germany by dropping the reins in the final furlong and spreading my arms out like a swallow. I won a Grade One in Japan the other day, worth £594,000 to the winner, so I'll get by, even if the English don't warm to me.
43) I was almost in tears after training my third winner at the Cheltenham Festival, 17 years after the second. And it turns out they're like London buses, as I had another one the next day. I got some recognition when both horses won again at the Grand National meeting, though, very sadly, I lost one of my best horses in the big race itself. Things are quiet once more in my neck of the woods but you'll hear from me again.
44) Trained until last week in the tiny Somerset village of Ash, I became the centre of a kind of circus last winter, when I won seven races out of eight from November to March, rising from a mark of 69 to 157. I can't help thinking that my owner tried to steal my thunder just a bit, climbing on my back as I entered the winner's enclosure at Wincanton, for example. Still, you could feel sorry for the bloke after he reportedly lost £20,000 when I flopped in the Paddy Power last month.
45) I was an excellent source of copy for hacks at the Cheltenham Festival when my horse won one of the big races there this year. They tell me I added a touch of celebrity glamour to proceedings. For my part, I said: "It's a fantastic sport, this. It's far too hard on itself. You've got tens of thousands of people here today, from all walks of life, enjoying it and racing needs to embrace that rather than be so laden with worry." My horse will be challenging for the big race on Boxing Day, as long as we don't get cold feet.
The things they said
46) "She was a proper, old-fashioned countrywoman. She could train her horses, drive the cattle to market and then come back and cook dinner for 20." Said on the passing this year of which owner/trainer, who achieved notable success at the Cheltenham Festival with Willie Wumpkins?
47) "I had my secret weapon on board, who is the best man in a finish in Europe, if not the world." Thus the Aga Khan in June, two months before firing the very same jockey. Name the rider in question.
48) "After peeing for at least 30 seconds, the agony was over. And then I passed out." An excerpt from the extraordinary first chapter to whose autobiography, published this year?
49) "It's blown Nicky Henderson out of the water." Who said it live on terrestrial telly in the seconds after a very significant win?
50) "He's always smashing his box up. He breaks mangers and things like that. He's very hot-blooded." Which trainer, discussing the best horse in his yard.
