Can You Answer These Horse Racing Questions?

Sadly not. The veteran trainer will not be renewing his licence and brought down the curtain on his training career...

No. The ultimate scenario for 2012 would be a royal winner and, for those who believe in such portents, the last ti...

It was moved to a Saturday in 1995. Previously it had been run on the first Wednesday in June but the shift to a Sa...

Apparently MPs have thrown their support behind calls to stage a special racing event to coincide with the Queen’s...

Suggesting that Gladiatorus is “the talking horse of the year” flies in the face of the form and the validity of th...

In theory Breeders’ Cup Mile should have played to his strengths, with a speed-friendly track and a two-turn mile....

All three of his Dubai wins were front-running performances, as had been the case when Gladiatorus had been trained...

There was nothing flattering about the performance in the Duty Free with a winning time that was over a second fast...

Hard to say really. He ended the season on a mark of 125, which made him joint-seventh in the World Thoroughbred Ra...

His trainer, Robbie Hennessy, clearly thinks so. Even though he’s been beaten in all three runs this season, they’v...

Air For One hasn’t been seen on the track since Punchestown last April and hasn’t won a race for a year previous t...

Henry Daly reckons he needs the run to get more experience over fences if he’s to have a chance of getting Mighty m...

McCoy rode quite a lot for Nicholls in his early days but then switched to Martin Pipe. Over 1200 winners later he...

That ‘s the difference between Tony McCoy and Lester Piggott. He simply spied his prey and set off in an indefatiga...

Well, Tony McCoy always reckons he admires Lester Piggott because of “the way he always got on the best horse. It d...

Certainly beginning to look that way. He’s won one group One race already – the Golden Rose last August – and he wo...

Simple enough really. One was bred in Australia the other in Ireland – so the one trained by Paul Nicholls appears...

No, Paul Nicholls has not gone mad. This Denman is owned by Sheikh Mohammed and runs in Australia.

He’s been in cracking form over the winter but he’s only ever won at seven furlongs – so the drop in distance is a...

Looks a tricky one but Bestowed’s had a good run on the all-weather this winter. He’s hardly run a bad race, won at...