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Usual good stuff by Mr Randall. BUT........"Prizes will be credited as free bonus money to your Paddy Power account. Minimum odds of 1.5, 1 x turnover, free bet expires 30 days after being credited". What if you don't have a PP account?? No mention of alternatives in the rules and no doubt the usual RP nonsense explanation, for the effective "pre-screening" of entrants and marketing tool dressed up as a quiz. John should be concerned but xmas bunce is xmas bunce!!!
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Sent the following to the RP......Why is the prize linked to a bookmaker account?. Is having a PP bookmaker account a condition of entry? Will it be possible to win the competition without a PP bookmaker account? If it is, what is the mechanism for this?. Thank you.
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always fiendish but fills the gap between the barren spell of sport and the xmas day family invasion.
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Quiz…Google ffs
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on the contrary.
There will be posers that defy 'googling', although many will be googleable for sure. |
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formoftheace making a fool of himself again. I think John has heard of Google.
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I doubt if some of those answers can be found on Google or anywhere online.
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Seems a lot easier this year...I've managed to get one correct!
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Here are the "answers" to the questions I raised.
Thank you for contacting Racing Post. We can advise that prizes are offered as an incentive to submit an entry. As in previous years, there is no requirement for those entering to hold a Paddy Power account at the point that they submit their entry, however, should a non account holder win one of the prizes they would be required to set up an account in order to benefit from the free bets. Please do not hesitate to reply accordingly should you require any further assistance or clarification. Kind regards, Alistair Broadbent Racing Post Customer Services |
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wd Lead on
 I can't get past the first question ffs. |
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Ridiculous questions. Surely more fun to have questions from the year just gone.
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Havin a quick glancedown the questions number 15 is the 1st one I am certain I know.
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Youtube 1976 derby for question 1.
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I got an honest 16 with no referring to the RP or googling...or even any guesses!
I only answered the ones I was almost certain about so I suspect I'd be able to crank that score up to at least 20 with a few guesses - maybe even 25 if lucky. Though I reckon a couple on here might be able to hit an admirably honest 35. |
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4 left - ta Colum
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Far to difficult to be fun ffs....You can stuff it.
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Yeah. Did half a dozen but can't be bothered to google the other 44. Or to watch Withnail and I to see if Tommo's in it (question 2). Some q's are excuses to watch old races on Youtube, which is always to be welcomed.
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K Reveley finished ahead [Hello louis] of charlie who was riding his own horse Allibar
Thommo got the better of charlie in a charity race a year earlier '81 - charlie went off the 13/8 jolly  |
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Thanks. I knew Tommo beat the PoW (as was) but figured Reveley was probably too young to have ridden against him. Anyway, thanks, leif.
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Np.
That Allibar dropped dead in front of charlie on the gallops. Charlie bought Good prospect to replace it and was subsequently charlie's first winner as an owner when ridden by Richard Lindley [Gaye Brief champion hurdle his biggest win] Devil’s Elbow would have been charlie's first winner as an owner when it won at worcester but was disqualified some time later as it had eaten 'doped' feed. |
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Q31 Q34, Q40 apparently. a horse named Ascot,newmarket goodwood or sandown was a runner up in the derby. cant find it. willing to to trade Q6 [left fielder]  |
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Ascot fin 2nd to Mundig in 1835 Derby.
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Awesome.
high 5 kevo |
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Merry Xmas leif.
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Assessment
Mundig was regarded as a useful but unexceptional horse whose form was "in no wise to be depended on."[7] "The Druid" (W. H. Dixon) described him as "a very moderate horse".[16] The Sportsman magazine took a different view, describing Mundig as essentially "true as steel", but ruined as a racehorse by his excessively hard race in the Derby.[15] There were persistent rumours in this period of four-year-old "ringers" being entered in the Derby, which is a race restricted to three-year-olds. The "winner" of the 1844 Derby was disqualified on these grounds and there were doubts about Bloomsbury and Little Wonder. Several later sources claim that Mundig, an unusually well-developed colt who arrived at Epsom surrounded in secrecy, may have been a four-year-old, the suggestion being that Emma's 1832 foal had been switched with his 1831 sibling.[17][18] Stud career Following his retirement from racing Mundig stood as a stallion, with his stud fee in 1839 being 10 guineas.[19] He reportedly became a very difficult and dangerous horse during his time at stud and was responsible for at least one death. Mundig's early progeny were disappointing runners[20] and in 1843 he was sold for 400 guineas to Captain von Kotze, a Prussian breeder.[21][22] He was exported and stood from 1844 to 1848 as a stallion at the Hauptgestüt Trakehnen stud in Germany. Mundig was then sold to another German breeder called van Saucken and died in 1852.[2] One of his British foals, The Grey Prince was standing as a stallion at Badminton in 1865 as a sire of hunters. conspiracy theories not such a new concept https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mundig |
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Q6
becomes a lil easier if you take 'fruit bat' as Flying Fox [hoss] and work from that point. |
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q31 looks to be Akiyda based on her Wikipedia page and also that the others were surely too early to have run in Group races.
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q31 looks to be Akiyda based on her Wikipedia page and also that the others were surely too early to have run in Group races.
I looks like it Ram. The only other win was in the prix des tuileries. The race run two years previously [1980] was £11k to the winner. Listed race. Went back over one and stuck on this. I cant find a link to any of the choices to the grandparents (who were a lively pair to say the least with both of them being gay. She was in love with virginia woolf] 32. Which Jockey Club member is a granddaughter of Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West? Countess of Halifax Lady Carolyn Warren Mary Low Rebecca Philipps |
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Combining information from two web searches, it seems Rebecca Nicolson is:- (a) granddaughter of Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West, and (b) partner of Guy Philipps, the 4th Baron Milford. So the answer is (probably) D, Rebecca Philipps. |
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I had her down as the likely candidate purely on the Rebecca part. Carolyn doesnt fit, the countess of halifax had a different first name and the only Mary Low of any note was an american.
Juliet Nicholson is a sister and the only other sibling is male [Adam]. Thanks for the Guy Philipps link. Believe I have all 50 now |
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Anyone know the winner of English/Irish Cesarewitch?
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 ]HTH |
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Thanks Leif, I was 90% sure it was Rock Dove through eliminating the others, but couldn't find any written text on the Irish race.Im pretty sure i've nailed all the others, thanks for the heads up.
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np
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Nice to see some trading....doesn't usually happen! The only one I can't get is one of the "lateral thinking" ones - Q10, In 2022 which horse scored two wins on consecutive days in races six monts apart - Fairmac, Cabaletta, It's Good to Laugh, or Black Lotus. Any clues happily accepted, thanks, and reciprocation offered! I got 50 last year but no prize....been doing this since the first one!
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https://www.racingpost.com/news/its-good-to-laugh-strikes-24-hours-after-winning-a-race-in-july/534350
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Thank you. To be fair, that was sheer stupidity on my part - the easiest google in the world, yet on first try I only looked at the horse's form. Would have gone through it again, but thank you.
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What was the prize blackbarn? Sorry, haven't been following closely.
The last one I entered I managed to win...it was a Mark Tompkins Christmas quiz when his website was still going. |
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Doesn't close till the 9th Jan Tatt. Still loads of time. FIrst prize is £350 in PP Betting vouchers. RP says you don't have to have a PP account to enter but you'll need one if you win.
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What was the prize
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