Arkle Quiz.

1. Ben Nevis
7. Mullingar, I'll guess at Baldoyle

3 boi ,sir mark healy hutchinson,only one never to have won on him if memory is correct

Cupwinkcook gets us started with 3 correct answers closely followed by Ambush with his detailed answer.

did he run in a hurdle race in the phoenix park

8. Breeder of Mill House Was Mrs B. Lawlor, Naas hotelier

Q4 - Airborne was the sire

No he never ran in the Phoenix Park,but the correct answer could prove contentious.
JayTrumpOldTom a very complete answer and correct.

ChildOfMine2 Airborne correct winner of the 1946 Epsom Derby.

ran in a hurdle race in dundalk

Reverse Arkle quiz from 1982 onwards as I cannot go back any further.

I have tried to link the question but I did this quickly so there may be errors and spelling mistakes.

1. Which Irish jockey dropped his whip in a driving finish but still managed to edge out a son of Kemal that went on to win the Tingle Creek?
2. Who won the Arkle the year the great Sabin Du Loit was a beaten favourite?
3. Name the Darren Mercer owned Martin Pipe mare who started favourite for the race the year Arctic Kinsman was beaten into second in the race?
4. Name the Irish mare who beat the winner of the above race the previous year, to open the festival.
5. What is the connection between the beaten favourite of the race that the mare in the previous question won and an historic event that occurred in Eastern Europe in 1989?
6. Who was ante post favourite for the Arkle the year it was abandoned?
7. Who finished second to the answer to question 6 at the following year's festival?
8. Name the last beaten odds on favourite in the Arkle?
9. Name the Coral Cup winner in the same colours for Jimmy Fitzgearld?
10. Another Coral Cup winner that previously raced in the colours of 8&9 was controversially beaten in a Newmarket handicap when ridden by Kieren Fallon - Name the horse and the race?

Q5 - Mill House - Arkle was accused of breaking his heart!

Q2 - Waterloo Boy (what a ride from Woody)

10 - Top Cees & Cesarewitch

think young tp burns won on him

COM

2 correct

10 Fist part correct

First part

Sorry for the intrusion wildman but it is related.

Q10 - Cambridgeshire then.

Woody did indeed give Waterloo a sensational ride. Came home from school to see that Sondrio, Waterloo and Beech Road had won. A good year now to be doing the jackpot.

Arkle Q1 - I think Foinavon was named after a Scottish mountain.

Not Mill House.
Ambush T.P.Burns and Dundalk both correct.

Not the Cambridgeshire

Hopefully it means that I got the last odds on shot to be beaten correct!!

Q9 - Sybilan maybe (under Mark Dwyer)

COM

That is correct for Q8

Q3 - Draborgie
Q4 - French Ballerina

I remember Sybillan well cos I bloody backed New Co

was best mate fav for the arkle

No intrusion Distant View and i like the link.
Foinavon correct was also owned by Anne Duchess of Westminster and trained by Tom Dreaper.

3 is Draborgie - It was a horrible sight

4 is not French Ballerina

Best Mate was fav the year it was abandoned.

Q4 Tourist Attraction

Tourist Attraction is correct

Ventanya Canton won the Arkle to beat Arctic Kinsman.

was my lad ruby second on commanche court in following years gold cup

Commanche Court is correct

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Arkle Q9 - Flyingbolt & Leap Frog

1 Franny Woods

10 . Seems to have been left alone so COM - the answer was the Swaffham Handicap - I just remember a lot of controversy about the race on CH4 when it was with Ramsden.

Woods is correct when he beat Sound Man

Q5 - Callisoe Bay was born in 1989.....

The Callisoe Bay answer is correct, although I never looked at his birth and it was not the historic significance.

The link was that he was owned by Rogers Waters, who was a founding member of Pink Flyod - The Wall was the historic event.

I am off now so question 9 was Trainglot.

Good work COM.

Good fun, lets make this a regular thing!

Will try again

Good luck.

How are we fixed with wildmans quiz ?
Q 9.....Flyingbolt with the welter of 12.6 and Leap Frog won it with 12.1.........my lap top died lastnite and in any event was tired as well (me) that is  !!!!!!!!!!!!

Great quiz.

Wildman is the answer to your Q5 Dunkirk in the 1965 King George.

Correct Monte Christo.Dunkirk was a two mile chaser who took on Arkle in the 1965 King George,he was in the mould of Tingle Creek and Im A Driver,he fell fatally at the fourth last.The controversy started in the Sporting Life the next day when Dunkirks jockey Bill Rees said that Dunkirk was dead before he hit the ground and although he broke his neck he maintained his heart burst.It was alleged that Dunkirks lungs were full of blood,this led to a Sporting Life editorial saying it was cruel to race horses against Arkle as he broke the genuine horses hearts.
JayTrumpOldTom.Leap Frog and Flyingbolt correct.

Is that them all answered as this thread was hi-jacked and is therefore all over the place........

Not hijacked added to,three to go.
From q1 two of the other famous mountains were named,Foinavon and Ben Nevis one to go.
Q2.Which stakes race run at Leopardstown has the same name as Arkle`s half brother.
Q6.What bird dog finished second to Arkle.

will post results tomorrow as i have had a drop of poteen tonight.

2. Savel Beg
3. Bank of Ireland
4. Airborne
5.Dunkirk
6. Willy Wagtail
7. Baldoyle, Dundalk? and Mullingar.
10. T.P. Burns

Q.1  Aonach

Well done The Gotchee all right except Aonach,a pity you don`t post more as you know your stuff.
Saval Beg was Arkles half brother and also named after a Scottish mountain but not the one required for Q1.
Q6.This was the sole cryptic clue and the hard one so fair play to The Gotchee,Willie Wagtail was second to Arkle in the 1963 Power Gold Cup.

Q1- Ben Stack

Moneypenny has answered the last question and not for the first time.
Ben Stack owned trained and ridden by those responsible for Arkle won the equivalent of The Arkle in 1963 and won the Two Mile Champion Chase in 1964 at the same festival Arkle won his first Gold Cup.