Test your racing knowledge with our festive Quiz, including a look back at the action from 2020 and so much more...
SPORTING LIFE CHRISTMAS QUIZ - ROUND 1
2020
1. The first meeting in Britain after lockdown was a 9 race card at Newcastle on 1st June. Who rode the first winner?
2. The last day of Royal Ascot will be remembered for Nando Parrado’s 150-1 success in the Coventry Stakes and a memorable double for jockey Kevin Stott - with which two horses?
3.The Molecomb Stakes at Goodwood gave which trainer his first Group success in the UK?
4. Oxted, trained by Roger Teal and ridden by Cieren Fallon won the July Cup at Newmarket. Who finished second?
5. Which trainer had a spectacular treble at Ayr on Gold Cup day, including the big race?
6. Which horse returned the biggest SP in victory on British Champions Day at Ascot?
7. Which horse won Northern Ireland’s biggest race, the Ladbrokes Champion Chase last month?
8. There are two answers here. Because of the pandemic BHA scrapped one Group 1 in 2020 and moved another to a different venue. Name the races.
SPORTING LIFE CHRISTMAS QUIZ - ROUND 2
TRIVIA - ANYTHING GOES
1. The feature race at Cheltenham on New Year's Day is the Grade 2 Dipper Novices Chase, which has only run at the track since 2005. Where used it to be staged?
2. Which racecourse is in Piercefield Park?
3. In his long and distinguished career which ends this month, trainer John Oxx trained winners all round the world. His CV includes one Breeders Cup win - with which horse?
4. Name the racecourse... The course is in the village of Blackwell. It was the venue in 1929 for the first meeting on which the Tote operated their pool betting system and their feature race is more than 400 years old.
5. Happy Birthday to a Mr Frankie Dettori - 50 not out recently. How many British Classics has he won?
6. Which jockey holds the best record in the Long Walk Hurdle at Ascot?
7. The Dewhurst Stakes was for years seen as a key trial for the classics, but since Frankel’s success in 2010 only two horses have done the double. Who was the most recent horse to do it?
8. Two jockeys rode their first Irish Classic winners in 2020. Name them.
SPORTING LIFE CHRISTMAS QUIZ - ROUND 3
RACING & CHRISTMAS
1. As well as the King George, Kempton’s Boxing Day card also features the Grade 1 Novice Chase known originally as the Feltham Novice Chase - it's now the Kauto Star Novices' Chase. This century two horses have won it and then gone on to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup - name them.
2. The now retired Barry Geraghty rode three of the last four Kempton Christmas Hurdle winners. They were Epatante, Buveur d’Air and which other horse?
3. In which year did Santa Claus win the Derby?
4. A now traditional, waterlogging permitted, highlight of racing over Christmas is the Welsh Grand National at Chepstow. How many fences are jumped?
5. Clan Des Obeaux beat Cyrname in the 2019 King George in a 1-2 for Paul Nicholls in the 2019 King George. What was the distance between them at the line? (and as it's Christmas you can have 2 lengths either way!)
6. Which horse beat Chacun Pour Soi to land the Grade One Novice Chase at the Leopardstown Christmas Festival a year ago?
7. Barters Hill, Champ and Messire Des Obeaux have all won which feature race over the Christmas period in recent years?
8. Champ was recently ruled out of the Savills Chase, the Grade 1 three mile chase at the Leopardstown Christmas Festival. Who was the last British-trained horse to win it?