Quiz Monkey
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Quiz Monkey |
| Scottish trainer, widely regarded as one of the greatest ever: Champion Trainer 10 times; trained 25 Classic winners (four Derbies, eight Oaks, six 1,000 Guineas, three 2,000 Guineas, four St. Leger) – including Frankel (2,000 Guineas winner 2011); died of cancer in 2013, aged 70 |
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Henry Cecil |
| Trainer of Best Mate – three times Cheltenham Gold Cup winner (2002–4) |
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Henrietta Knight |
| Became the most successful National Hunt trainer ever in 2000, passing 3,000 winners, including Minnehoma in the 1994 Grand National; son David trained Comply or Die to victory in 2008 |
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Martin Pipe |
| Became Britain's most successful trainer ever in 2018 when Frankie Dettori rode his 4,194th winner |
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Mark Johnston |
The only person to have won the Cheltenham Gold Cup, Champion Hurdle and Grand National as both jockey and trainer
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Fred Winter |
| Racing in Britain and Ireland cancelled for more than five weeks due to foot and mouth disease, mainly confined to the North Midlands and North Wales |
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1967 | |
| Cheltenham Festival cancelled due to foot and mouth disease |
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2001 | |
| Racing cancelled for five days due to equine flu |
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February 2019 | |
| The official birthday of all racehorses (in Britain) |
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1st January | |
| Age of horses for any of the five English classics |
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3 years | |
| Horses backed in a "round robin" |
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3 | |
| Horses backed in a Yankee |
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4 | |
| Shortest distance for a flat race, under English (Jockey Club) rules |
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5 furlongs | |
| Maximum number of characters (including spaces) allowed in a racehorse's name |
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18 | |
| Shoes (for racing) are made of |
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Aluminium | |
| Jockey's name preceded by "Mr." – signifies |
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Amateur | |
| Bookmakers went on strike at Windsor, in 1925, in protest against |
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Betting tax | |
| Stables in Dubai and Newmarket, owned by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum |
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Godolphin | |
| The world's richest race (run in Tokyo) |
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Japan Cup | |
| Governing body of racing in the UK |
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Jockey Club | |
| Royal Ascot takes place in (month) |
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June | |
| Berkshire village: England's second largest centre for racehorse training, after Newmarket |
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Lambourn | |
| "Shedding a plate" |
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Losing a shoe | |
| Word used for a horse that has never won a race, and in the names of races that only such horses are allowed to enter |
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Maiden | |
| Breeding farm founded in 1916 by Colonel William Hall–Walker (later Lord Wavertree) |
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National Stud | |
| Minimum winning distance in British racing |
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Nose | |
| Royal Ascot was instituted in 1711 by |
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Queen Anne | |
| Second shortest winning distance in British racing (after a Nose) |
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Short head | |
| Scurry |
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Short race or sprint | |
| First use in the UK was at Newmarket in 1965 |
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Starting stalls | |
| The two types of obstacle race | Large, fixed obstacles |
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Steeplechase |
| Smaller, flexible obstacles |
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Hurdles | |
| The final turn on Epsom racecourse (where they enter the home straight): gave its name to a railway station and a public house |
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Tattenham Corner | |
| Traditional method used by bookmakers to communicate odds using hand signals |
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Tic–tac | |
| Family that has recorded the pedigrees of racehorses in Britain since 1793, on behalf of the Jockey Club, and controls their names (including imposing the 18 letter limit) |
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Weatherby | |
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