Pit your wits against the ITBA Mark O'Hanlon Memorial Quiz question setters

The ITBA Mark O'Hanlon Memorial Quiz took place this week, with the Racing Post team - joint sponsors of the event with the Irish Field - emerging victorious.

See how well you would have done as we print the questions, set by the ITBA events committee including Ballyhane Stud's Joe Foley and Goffs' Joey Cullen.

ROUND 1

1. Which storm caused the postponement of Punchestown races on February 9?

2. Itchy Feet provided which trainer with his first Grade 1 winner?

3. Name the Classic-winning champion trainer who is one of a set of triplets.

4. Name the 2018 Royal Ascot winner owned, bred and trained by a mother and daughter combination.

5. How many times has Charles Byrnes trained the winner of the Ladbrokes Handicap Hurdle at Leopardstown?

6. Name the former stallion who won a Group 2 race in Dubai last month.

7. What horse won three races at the 2019 Galway Races?

8. Who is the former police officer who carried out the BHA’s review of the buying and selling practices of bloodstock and racehorses?

9. Which professional golfer is a part-owner of the Gavin Cromwell-trained Theatre Of War?

10. Name the broodmare sire of Magical and Advertise.

ROUND 2

1. Which tennis player won a Grade 2 in Santa Anita this month?

2. Name the horse who finished last in the 2018 Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham but is unbeaten since.

3. Which trainer’s trip to Disneyland Paris on New Year’s Day was spoiled by having a Cheltenham winner demoted from first place?

4. The jockeys who rode the last three winners of the St James’s Palace Stakes all wore which colour cap?

5. Who had his first Royal Ascot winner in 1952 and his last in 1993?

6. Who rode the winner of the Pat Smullen Cancer Trials Legends Race at Belharbour point-to-point this month?

7. Two Shonas was which trainer’s first Classic runner?

8. California Chrome stands in which country?

9. JP McManus was the leading jumps owner in Britain last season. Who finished second?

10. How many races are run at the Dublin Racing Festival?

ROUND 3

1. Name the sponsor of the Irish Oaks.

2. Which horse gave Ruby Walsh his final Cheltenham Festival success?

3. In 2014 there were seven Group 2 races in the Irish Flat programmes. How many were run in 2019?

4. Name the most recent British-based trainer to win the Irish St Leger?

5. Which sire was responsible for the winner of the first two-year-old race of 2019 in Ireland?

6. Name the mare who put up one of the best performances of 2019 to win the Arima Kinen in December. She had won the Cox Plate in Australia on her previous start.

7. Which horse gave Rachael Blackmore her first Grade 1 victory in Ireland?

8. Which trainer won all six races at a Meydan fixture in November?

9. Who two horses have been allotted top weight for this year’s Grand National?

10. Last year’s Irish Derby winner had won only one race prior to the Curragh classic. At which track did that victory come?

ROUND 4

1. Two horse have been disqualified from first place in the Kentucky Derby. Name them.

2. The father of one of the three female jockeys who rode in the 2018 Grand National won the race himself. Name him.

3. Who was the leading jockey at the 2019 Cheltenham Festival?

4. Racing was suspended at which track last autumn due to problems with its all-weather surface?

5. At the end of 2019 two horses shared the distinction of being the highest-rated Irish-trained horses outside of Ballydoyle. One was Master Of Reality: who was the other?

6. At which track did Tiger Roll record his first Irish victory?

7. Name Ireland’s longest race.

8. Gotti was the first winner for which owner?

9. Nicky Henderson’s hurdler Palladium is a half-brother to which young Irish-based stallion?

10. Who was the champion flat jockey in France last season?

PICTURE ROUND

Name the five jockeysCredit: Patrick McCann

Name the five horsesCredit: Alan Crowhurst

ROUND 6

1. Who is the winning-most jockey at the Curragh? Mick Kinane, Pat Smullen, Johnny Murtagh or A.P. McCoy

2. Which horse has won the most prize-money in the history of racing? Arrogate, California Chrome, Gentildonna or Winx

3. The Dublin Racing Festival has been in existence for three years. How many winners has Willie Mullins trained at the meeting? Ten, 12, 14 or 16

4. Who is Horse Racing Ireland’s director of welfare? Brian Kavanagh, Jason Morris, John Osborne or Brendan Sheridan

5. Joe Whitaker rode a winner at Newcastle in January on his first racecourse ride. Joe is better known as a... comedian, show jumper, farrier or policeman?

6. The longest race at the Cheltenham Festival is run over how many feet? 18,240, 21,120, 23,100 or 26,450

7. Which Irish racecourse manager played League of Ireland football with Athlone Town? Eddie Scally, Pat Keogh, Peter Roe or Paddy Dunican

8. The 1955 Royal Ascot meeting was cancelled due to what? Railway strike, foot and mouth disease, the King’s death or waterlogging?

9. Two jockeys have won all three races restricted to amateurs at the Cheltenham Festival. John Oaksey is one, who is the other? JT McNamara, Patrick Mullins, Derek O’Connor or Enda Bolger

10. Apple’s Jade won the Grade 2 juvenile hurdle at Leopardstown’s Christmas meeting on her first Irish start. Who rode her? Jonathan Burke, Bryan Cooper, Davy Russell or Ruby Walsh?

ROUND 7

1. Name the first stakes winner at the newly renovated Curragh Racecourse in 2019.

2. Name the bloodstock agent who was the most recent Scandinavian to complete the course in the Aintree Grand National.

3. Name the owners of these three sets of racing colours: a) grey; b) royal blue; c) black, white sleeves, red cap, black star.

4. Furore won which country's Derby in 2019?

5. Which current Grade 1-winning novice chaser shares his name with Mouse Morris’ first winner as a trainer?

6. Name Aidan O’Brien’s seven Derby winners at Epsom.

7. Austrian School retired to Clongiffen Stud in County Meath this month. Name his famous half-brother.

8. Name the next horse in this sequence: Night Nurse, See You Then, Katchit...

9. Who is Godolphin’s principal trainer in Australia?

10. Name the only two horses inducted into the ITBA’s Hall of Fame.

ROUND 8

1. Which still active British-based jockey rode Gordon Elliott’s first winner at Perth in June 2006?

2. Name the two Arc-winning stallions standing in County Kilkenny.

3. Name the Grand National winner named after a lighthouse.

4. Michael Mitchell shared the US jump riders championship with which Irishman?

5. The fictional Auric Stud is Kentucky featured in which James Bond film?

6. Capitaine was which trainer’s 3,000th winner in February 2019?

7. These are the pedigrees of which horses currently in training: by First Defence out of Bird Flown; and by Galileo out of Distinctive Look.

8. The Irish Field celebrates its birthday this month. How old is it?

9. How many strikes of the whip is a jockey allowed under IHRB rules before an inquiry is called?

10. City Island and Minella Indo are by which stallion full-brothers?

ROUND 9

1. Born in the US, this horse’s sire was a Derby winner. Initially trained by Paddy Mullins when he was named Uncle O, he won the Royal & SunAlliance Hurdle at Cheltenham by 14 lengths and went on to finish second in an Irish Champion Hurdle and third in the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham, behind Istabraq on both occasions. His trainer was previously head man for Paddy Mullins; name the horse and trainer.

2. The Racing Post sponsors which race at the Cheltenham Festival?

3. Name the only two Japanese-trained horses to have won Group 1 races in Britain.

4. Tarascon provided which jockeys with their first Group 1 winners?

5. What company sponsors the race at the Cheltenham Festival registered as the Baring Bingham?

6. Which trainer features in Horse Racing Ireland’s current television advertisement?

7. Which Irish trainer ran Thyer in the Kentucky Derby?

8. Which member of the outgoing Cabinet in Ireland played rugby in college with David Simcock and Andrew Balding?

9. Baracouda’s last Grade 1 victory came at which British racecourse?

10. Who rode the Ted Walsh-trained Lady Atlas to finish second in a charity race at Punchestown?

ROUND 10

1. Which fence on the Punchestown cross-country course shares its name with an Aintree Grand National fence?

2. Name all three champion two-year-olds to have been rated higher than Pinatubo since the International Classifications began.

3. What horse and rider achieved the highest placed finish by a female jockey in the Aintree Grand National?

4. Name the highest-priced point-to-pointer sold at public auction in 2019.

5. Name the horse who ran at Dundalk this month who shares his name with a Richmond Stakes winner who was disqualified for technically being a three-year-old.

6. Name the six Group 1 races won by Laurens.

7. Name Kieren Fallon’s three Epsom Derby winners.

8. Name Kevin Ryan’s two Group 1 winners in 2019.

9. Who is the sire of Group 1 winner Deirdre?

10. Search For A Song was the first three-year-old filly to win the Irish St Leger since Petite Ile won in 1989. Who rode Petite Ile?

To read the answers, scroll past the videos of Irish-based stallions to the bottom of the page

ANSWERS

Round 1 Ciara; Olly Murphy; Richard Hannon; Accidental Agent; Four; Barney Roy; One Cool Poet; Justin Felice; Shane Lowry; Pivotal

Round 2 Nadal; Paisley Park; Dan Skelton; white; Lester Piggott; Tom Costello; Aidan O’Brien; Japan; Gigginstown House Stud; 15

Round 3 Kerrygold; Klassical Dream; 15; Tom Dascombe; Epaulette; Lys Gracieux; Honeysuckle; Doug Watson; Delta Work and Tiger Roll; Galway

Round 4 Dancers Image and Maximum Security; Jimmy Frost; Nico de Boinville; Jebel Ali; Romanised; Ballinrobe; La Touche Cup; Phoenix Thoroughbreds; Galileo Gold; Maxime Guyon

Picture round Ruby Walsh, Sir Anthony McCoy, Paul Carberry, Richard Hughes and Johnny Murtagh; Enable, Sottsass, Magical, Japan and Waldgeist

Round 6 Johnny Murtagh; Winx; 14; John Osborne; show jumper; 21,120; Eddie Scally; railway strike; Derek O’Connor; Jonathan Burke

Round 7 Ickworth; Lars Kelp; Mrs John Magnier (grey), Mrs T K Cooper (royal blue) and Moyglare Stud; Hong Kong; Faugheen; Galileo, High Chaparral, Camelot, Ruler Of The World, Australia, Wings Of Eagles and Anthony Van Dyck; Tiger Roll; Espoir D’Allen (five-year-old Champion Hurdle winners); James Cummings; Sadler’s Wells and Galileo

Round 8 Richard Johnson; Waldgeist and Workforce; Corbiere; Jack Doyle; Goldfinger; Paul Nicholls; Siskin and Supasundae; 150 years old; eight strikes; Court Cave and Beat Hollow

Round 9 French Holly and Ferdy Murphy; Arkle Chase; Agnes World and Deirdre; Pat Smullen; Ballymore Properties; Noel Meade; Jim Bolger; Simon Coveney; Windsor

Round 10 Canal Turn; Celtic Swing, Arazi and Tromos; Seabass and Katie Walsh (third). Gallyhill; Endless Summer; Fillies' Mile, Prix Saint-Alary, Prix de Diane, Matron Stakes, Sun Chariot Stakes and Prix Rothschild; Oath, Kris Kin and North Light; Hello Youmzain and Glass Slippers; Harbinger; Ron Quinton.