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1 What is the maximum number of horses allowed to race in the Grand National?
A Forty
2 Who, for decades, wore gargantuan and often outlandish hats on Ladies’ Day at Ascot?
A Mrs Gertrude Shilling
3 What is the maximum number of letters and spaces allowed in the name of a racehorse by the Jockey Club?
A 18 – including spaces and apostrophes
4 Horse Racing, at which racecourse would you see the Lincoln Handicap?
A Doncaster.
5 Which horse race did organisers inaugurate in 1920 to commemorate the French soldiers who died in World War I?
A Prix de 1’Arc de Triomphe.
6 Trundle Hill overlooks which English racecourse?
A Goodwood (or St Roche’s Hill to give it its official name – West Sussex)
7 Which English racecourse is overlooked by Cleeve Hill?
A Cheltenham (Gloucestershire)
8 On which racecourse is the Welsh Grand National run?
A Chepstow (3 miles 6 furlongs and 130 yards, or 6,154 metres)
9 In horse racing, which three racecourses stage the five English “classics”?
A Doncaster, Epsom and Newmarket – The five races are: The 2,000 Guineas (colts and fillies), The 1,000 Guineas (fillies) – both run at Newmarket in May; The Oaks (fillies), The Derby (colts and fillies) – both run at Epsom Downs in June; and The St Leger (colts and fillies) run at Doncaster in September
10 In 1931, the BBC broadcast for the first time a live horse race. Which one?
A The Derby