Racing Trivia
 

See how well you do...

http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/qu...131c48060.html

Ooof... Got 6/10... Missed 4-5-8-10.. Tough quiz.

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I only got 3 correct. But I also have a hard time remembering yesterday.

Steve's right, it was tough! 2/10 ugh!!!

that was fun even though I sucked...3/10

**well done Hoss**

I'll make the next one a little easier... :)

I didnt do so well (3 of 10) but it was fun and brings back fond memories of the great 90's, a time where we saw champions that actually ran in races.
Best Pal, Skip Away, Cigar, Lure, Star of Cozzene, Paradise Creek, Formal Gold, Holy Bull, Go for Gin, Awad, Silver Charm, Real Quiet, Bertrando, Go for Wand.

Geez, werent we ever spoiled. I'd be hard pressed to comprise a list that half holds a candle to this so far in this decade.

3/10...can't believe Holy Bull wasn't favored.

I only managed getting 6 of 10 right myself. Probably didn't think a few of them through deep enough.

I was tripped up on the same question as TG. Holy Bull and Halo's Image got caught up in a WILD speed duel in the '94 Fountain of Youth....Holy Bull looked like he was put away by Halo's Image, and ended up finishing dead last beaten 25 lengths.

Halo's Image, seemed to be running a gigantic race...but than suddenly bolted the turn and totally took himself out of the race...I think he only managed to beat Holy Bull.

In the Florida Derby, Holy Bull and Halo's Image would not hook up in an insane speed duel this time....as Holy Bull would ride an uncontested early lead to an emphatic victory.

Meanwhile, Halo's Image missed 2nd by a nose in the 14 horse field. He was nosed out by Ride the Rails...who, is probably most famously known as the sire of the incredibly talented Candy Ride. Earlier in that GP meeting, Ride the Rails upset 1/10 favorite Dehere in his Breeders Cup Juvie comeback.

I missed three of the jockey questions, and the fla derby question for a score of 6/10.

I've always sucked at jockey trivia, probably as a result for my disdain of them.

Started out hot with the first three then missed them all until number 9. 4 of 10 for me

neither can i!!

He was close to it...

Favorite was 2.40-1

Holy Bull was 2.70-1

You should be careful about trying to appear sharp about races that took place while you were still in diapers. Holy Bull, and of course the duel cooked him, is one of the few horses that genuinely seemed to displace in the Fountain of Youth ( and may have created a stampede of horsemen using that as a fake excuse in the future ) and as you pointed out, the speed duel never materialized in the Florida Derby, but that race was also contested over a souped up speed track.

I think Ride the Rails was more famous for beating Dehere that day.

What was your score BTW?
 

And BTW scored?

I got two

Here's that Fountain of Youth.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoDOQ-pdO0A

The way he stopped, there's no debating he displaced....

6 of 10.

I know I blew the Go for Gin/Holy Bull question ( I KNEW it was a trick! )...I also got trapped in the Sword Dancer question and I forget where else.

It was a good quiz.

Are you saying its a fake excuse used by horseman because you think they lie that it happened, or that displacing is a fake excuse?

If you're going to ask me questions, especially ones this foolish, try to make the options less ambiguous.

BTW, My post was in responce as to why Holy Bull wasn't made the favorite.

I realize something was almost certainly wrong with him that day...however, I pointed to his bad race in the FoY as the obvious reason why he wasn't the favorite.

It wasn't like..., say, Afleet Alex's Rebel..where the horse seemed to have no excuse at all and just laid an egg...HB and HI really went at each other.

Far more people know Ride the Rails as the sire of Candy Ride...then they know him as 'The horse who beat Dehere in an allowance race.' If you had the misfortune of talking with West Coasters a lot...you would know this!

Well I certainly agree that I hear far too many trainers blaming displacing these days when the horse appeared to have run its race and just been short.
But in the cases where they do entrap or displace for real, I think its the biggets excuse there is. Horses will run through pain, even great pain, but they can't run a step if they can't breathe.

Thankfully I don't.

I'm also joking as it is the only thing I remember about Ride the Rails.

What top 2YO ( and later top 3YO and 4YO ) made its debut on that Florida Derby card?

Sorry...I meant 3YO debut.

Paradice Creek?

Unaccounted For?

I looked up PC...he came back in March of his 3yo season, at GP, in '93...not '94...so couldn't be him

Paradise Creek? He was a 3YO in 1992 ( 2nd to Lure in the BC Mile at Gulfstream ).

Unaccounted For didn't debut until he was 3...but it was at Gulfstream. Did he lose to that Brothers short lived uber-phenom in his debut...Carnivale or something like that? I know he ( Unaccounted For that is ) lost by a neck at 8:5ish in his debut.

God, how embarrassingly wrong can you continue to be.

Yeah it was canaveral. The Relaunch horse Brothers had.
I remember that card and where I was that day and this question is driving me crazy.

Unaccounted For lost his debut to Parting Sea....

I was 12 back then....it wasn't till about that age when I finally mastered how to tie my shoes

Was it Heavenly Prize?

Yes, she got beat in the What A Summer that same day

I assumed he meant that it was a colt.

NO way!! She was a grade one winner at age 2.
I also assumed he meant a colt, but if its a filly its not her.