Galway Quiz.

Q1
Who is the hotter Seoíge?

Q1.This Gold Cup winner won his bumper in Galway
Q2.Des O`Connor can count on Olivia
Q3.What year did Galway race in January
Q4.Golden Cygnet
Q5.She won three plates in four years
Q6.French rugby team
Q7.This chairman has a stand named after him
Q8.A favourite of Moneypenny
Q9.Galway handicap winner who won Irish St Leger in same year.
Q10.Belmont winner won his two year old maiden at Galway
Q11.Two famous Galway horses were bought by a father and then a son from a father and then his son.
Q12.He won both a two year old maiden and the Plate in Galway
Q13.T.V. programme
Q14.Edgar Allan Poe short story and leading Galway trainer from yesteryear.
Q15.Weld placed this wager slowly
Q16.Childhood game and phenomenal weight carrier
Q17.The two Irish Derby winners to win in Galway
Q18.Trained nine winners of the Galway Plate
Q19.Not the best batter
Q20.Vase not hidden

the usual mixture of horses and people clues to follow

10- go and go

12- ansaar

Go And Go correct
Ansar incorrect

1. Rite of Passage (but it was a bumper so not sure that counts)

17. Grey Swallow and Treasure Beach

12. I think Kiichi may well have won his maiden there?

6. Quinze?

1. Sorry forget the ramblings in brackets on my answer.

19.Pinch Hitter.

It is a feature of every quiz i have put up that i get at least one answer that is better than mine.
Bassanio has come up with four correct answers although i had a different horse in mind for Q1,I remember Rite Of Passage winning his flat maiden in Ballinrobe his winners bumper in Naas but not sure but accept he won his bumper in Galway.

1.Grainne

13. Spittin' Image

The world is going to end,after months of trying and hours spent ringing around for help,Rocketfingers has eventually come up with a correct answer,what next Never Give Up will get one right surely not,although he holds the record for tome spent on a quiz thread he has yet to break his duck.
Anyone in the area of Dublin where Rocketfingers is be careful,look after your womenfolk flushed with this success he may try to break another duck of his.

18- Paddy Sleator

The great Paddy Sleator correct,Moneypenny it is nice to see you follow in the noble footsteps of Ribelaro,Guinness2dear and Workrider and refuse to pick the low lying fruit.

What about my answer to Q19?

Wonky couldn't pick his nose.....not to mind low lying fruit.....

Puncheatown Pinch Hitter correct and your second correct answer.
Bobbybocala,Workrider has answered lots of questions on these quizzes down the days,when i first started them Ribelaro was in a class of his own and always ignored the easy questions,i put up a quiz on the main forum and both Guinness2dear and Workrider answered plenty of questions when i then put the same quiz up here they both ignored the questions they had already answered and went for others,decent people totally lacking in hubris.

4 Ray Rooney , race committee chairman for many years and owner of GC
7 Killanin , father of Mouse Morris

Well done both correct.
Q6.French rugby team
Answer Quinze
Quinze is French for 15 and rugby team frequently referred to as first 15 correctly answered by Bassanio.

Jul 29, 2012 -- 8:39PM, wildmanfromborneo wrote:

The world is going to end,after months of trying and hours spent ringing around for help,Rocketfingers has eventually come up with a correct answer,what next Never Give Up will get one right surely not,although he holds the record for tome spent on a quiz thread he has yet to break his duck.Anyone in the area of Dublin where Rocketfingers is be careful,look after your womenfolk flushed with this success he may try to break another duck of his.

oh dear tootsie/wildbore/dark rosaleen,i see that u still cant get over a day without mentioning my name u sick sad freak.............just stick to googling questions and answers u cross dressing weirdo

Glad to see you are still trying but don`t lose faith Rocketfingers has answered a question right.
They might not suit you at the moment but your time will come and the whole forum will be cheering when it does.

Scores

Bassanio   5
Moneypenny  2
STELLAR MANIPULATOR  2
Punchestown   2
Rocketfingers  1

questions to be answered
Q1,Q2,Q3,Q5,Q8,Q9,Q11,Q14,Q15,Q16 and Q20

will revisit with clues tomorrow.

Wildman....don't get me started with wonky......he wouldn't know his arrse from a hole in the ground.....the poor man thought you could win a maiden hurdle 2 nights in a row....with the same horse.....until the other day......thought princess highway won the coronation stakes at ascot.....please I ask you......a quiz ..... If he was on mastermind..... The only question he might get right......would be when they.....asked him his name.....

Jul 29, 2012 -- 9:12PM, never give up wrote:

Jul 29, 2012 --  8:39PM, wildmanfromborneo wrote:The world is going to end,after months of trying and hours spent ringing around for help,Rocketfingers has eventually come up with a correct answer,what next Never Give Up will get one right surely not,although he holds the record for tome spent on a quiz thread he has yet to break his duck.Anyone in the area of Dublin where Rocketfingers is be careful,look after your womenfolk flushed with this success he may try to break another duck of his.oh dear tootsie/wildbore/dark rosaleen,i see that u still cant get over a day without mentioning my name u sick sad freak.............just stick to googling questions and answers u cross dressing weirdo

try and get over your sick infatuation tootsie

Punchestown   2

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Wildman,in the event of a tie in the competition I won't complain if one of my answers is expunged

no no no bobby, i doubt wonky would even get his name right... seriously

Q16 Leap Frog

Punchestown your other correct answer was Grainne
Leap Frog correct
Now the promised clues
Q1. The Gold Cup in this instance is the Cheltenham Gold Cup
Q2.The answer is a Galway Plate winner
Q5.This lady later became a trainer
Q8.This is the low lying fruit that Moneypenny gallantly refused to pick,a recent Galway Hurdle winner
Q9.This horse won the Irish St Leger around the answer to Q3
Q11.The two sons are still training today,both the fathers are dead.
Q14.This trainer was leading Galway trainer prior to Dermot Weld
Q15.an anagram
Q20.A pure crossword clue.

Q1 War of Attrition

I hope not,that is not the one I had in mind Bassanios already come up with the Ascot Gold Cup winner Rite Of Passage.

War of Attrition did not even compete in bumpers did he?

Not Mouse's style anyway.

15. Grey Swallow

You're right Bassanio.

Head's not too good today.Bit of a rough night.

Wager slowly an anagram of Grey Swallow,this fellow is featured in the Racing Posts Memory Lane column today and yes it is still hard to credit that he was backed at 2/1 that day and started 11/8 second favourite.

The only thing about that wildman was that he was racing a full brother to Rock of Gibraltar in the race who had shown promise on his debut.

We now know that all relations of The Rock were useless but it wasn't that apparent at the time.

I was there and didn't back him and as you say hindsight is a wonderful thing
I think I must be alone in not liking Line Drummers run in Tipperary so have been looking for an alternative and keep coming back to the David Wachman trained Seussical,am going today so will probably try a few sneaky each way bets on him,have a look at his Leopardstown run plenty of promise there.

Punchestown your other correct answer was Grainne

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Hence my offer

has to be moon dice i suppose

Would I be right in saying that the  Seussical colours are the original colours of Mrs John Magnier before they acquired the navy blue? AOB trained the horses in these colours when he first started at Ballydoyle?

Sorry about Seussical.
Moon Dice correct but after me heaping all that praise on you Moneypenny you go and spoil it by picking the low lying fruit.

Q1.The Gold Cup winner who won his bumper in Galway was trained by a famous jockey whose son now trains.
Q2.This horse won a Galway Plate and was trained by Paddy Sleator,Des O`Connor sang a song about a childhood game with the horses name in it,the Olivia in the clue is a journalist and one time T.V presenter whose second name is the same as the horse.
Q5.The lady who owned three Galway Plate winners was married many times,she later became a trainer and was involved in a controversial disqualification in the then Observer Gold Cup,she trained the Dublin side of Newbridge.

we will see how these go before we give clues for the rest.

I am going to chance 'O'Leary' as the answer to q2 !

O`Leary correct.The Des O`Connor song was 1 2 3 O`Leary,the journalist was Olivia O`Leary,the horse was O`Leary who won the 1976 Galway Plate ridden by Bobby Coonan and trained by Paddy Sleator.

5. Anne Brewster

Anne Biddle or Brewster or More O`Ferral is correct,her maiden name was Bullitt.
Her Galway Plate winners were Amber Point in 1954 and 1956 and Knight Errant in 1957 all trained by Paddy Sleator.

1 dawn run

her bumper by the way!!

Well done El Gato you have done it again,come up with a correct answer but not my one.
People will think i am doing it deliberately,asking questions with multiple answers but i can assure ye i am not.
Q1.Gold Cup winner who won his bumper in Galway.
Bassanio weighed in with Rite Of Passage,winner of the Ascot Gold Cup and a Galway bumper,so that answer correct.
I then gave a clue
The Cheltenham Gold Cup winner who won his bumper in Galway was trained by a famous jockey now deceased whose son now trains.
El Gato comes up with Dawn Run trained by Paddy Mullins who is deceased and who has three sons training,so another correct answer.
The famous jockey who later went on to train was not the trainer when this lad won his bumper in Galway,he took over his training shortly after his hurdling started to improve.The trainer is now deceased but his son is training and despite he training a Gold Cup winner is considered very poor especially on this forum.

obviously a horse trained by pat taafe then
can only be captain christy

Captain Christy correct,trained then by Tom Nicholson.
Q3.What year did Galway race in January
It was the same year that Samuel Shields won the Galway Plate
Q9.Galway handicap winner who won Irish St Leger in the same year.
This lad was owned by Joe McGrath and trained by Seamus McGrath
Q11.Two famous Galway horses were bought by a father and then his son from a father and then his son.
Both fathers trained on the Curragh,both sons inherited their stables,one is a Galway specialist the other is not and despite having a stable full of horses has hardly had a runner this week.

wildmanfromborneo....sorry if i answered this on another of yours , but is it windsor lad ....?

Not Windsor Lad much later,he was by Le Levanstall and the owner Joe McGrath was the son of the legendary Joe and brother of Seamus.

ok i'll try allangrange ...not sure if he was by la levanstall though....

You never let me down,you always come up with a correct answer and do it from memory.
Allangrange correct won the 1970 Irish St Leger,he certainly was a home bred.

wildmanfromborneo , maybe you can help me with this , the mcgraths had some smashing horses in the 60s /70s sweet mimosa , desert call , would you believe it i've just remembered my own question the horse i was going to ask about is true rocket ...ridden by george mcgrath...

They had the best bloodlines in Europe but ruined them by constant use of their own stallions including their big flop Varano,made the same mistake as Anne Biddle
Never thought much of Seamus McGrath as a trainer,when you consider the great horses that went through the stable felt they never realised their full potential.He wasn't a good judge of a jockey either never gave Pat Eddery a ride when he was there.

tbf pat was only a kid then , as it turned out , it was for the best ...he went on to become a top jockey ...