Offbeat horse trivia game!

#1 09-10-2006, 11:38 PM

If it is the educated horse I am thinking of he had the same name as a former Bluejay/Yankee lefthanded pitcher.

#2 09-10-2006, 11:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Miller

If it is the educated horse I am thinking of he had the same name as a former Bluejay/Yankee lefthanded pitcher.

lol, I forgot about that guy
Jimmy Key wasn't it?
yes the horse was Jim Key
trained by Dr. William Key
a former slave, and self-taught vet
great story!

gallant bloom · #3 09-14-2006, 05:54 PM

what does
melhor ainda
mean?

paisjpq · #4 09-14-2006, 07:10 PM

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Originally Posted by gallant bloom

what does
melhor ainda
mean?

better still. in portuguese

gallant bloom · #5 09-16-2006, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by paisjpq

better still. in portuguese

no one else
knows this?

#6 09-17-2006, 11:40 PM

I think you will find that the third place horse in the Champagne was third in afew other stakes but could only muster a fifth in his only Triple Crown Race.

Just a hint as I am a latecomer to the question and perhaps I am incorrect!!!

SentToStud · #7 09-18-2006, 01:25 PM

Here's one....

Only one stakes race has had a triple dead heat for win.

Race, year, horses?

#8 09-14-2006, 07:14 PM

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Originally Posted by gallant bloom

what does
melhor ainda
mean?

I'm gonna guess it means a $5.20 show bet at Arlington Park!

#9 09-14-2006, 07:34 PM

Ok I'll pose some trivia.
William Shoemaker's last mount was a New York bred competing in a California grass stakes race. Name him.

#10 09-14-2006, 07:43 PM

Here's some more trivia and I'm going to stick older stuff so that it just can't be googled up and create the false impression that some actually know the answers who do not! Tough luck Googlers.
Name the horse that Mike Smith chose to ride in the 1994 NYRA mile instead of Cigar, for whom the race is now named.

Personal Ensign defeated males in the 1988 Whitney Handicap at Saratoga. There were actually only two other horses in the race. Name them.

In 1993 Shug McGaughey won 5 graded stakes race on one program at Belmont. He also had an allowance winner on that card named Regal Solution. Miners Mark won the JCGC, Lure won the Kelso, Strolling Along won the Lawrence Realization, Heavenly Prize won the Frizette, and Dispute won the Beldame.
There was only one other grade one on that program, the Champagne, and McGaughey's horse ran third. Name the winner and McGaughey's horse who ran 3rd.

my miss storm cat · #11 09-15-2006, 01:24 AM

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Originally Posted by oracle80

Here's some more trivia and I'm going to stick older stuff so that it just can't be googled up and create the false impression that some actually know the answers who do not! Tough luck Googlers.
Name the horse that Mike Smith chose to ride in the 1994 NYRA mile instead of Cigar, for whom the race is now named.

Personal Ensign defeated males in the 1988 Whitney Handicap at Saratoga. There were actually only two other horses in the race. Name them.

In 1993 Shug McGaughey won 5 graded stakes race on one program at Belmont. He also had an allowance winner on that card named Regal Solution. Miners Mark won the JCGC, Lure won the Kelso, Strolling Along won the Lawrence Realization, Heavenly Prize won the Frizette, and Dispute won the Beldame.
There was only one other grade one on that program, the Champagne, and McGaughey's horse ran third. Name the winner and McGaughey's horse who ran 3rd.

No idea..... way too, ummm.... hard.

paisjpq · #12 09-15-2006, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by oracle80

Here's some more trivia and I'm going to stick older stuff so that it just can't be googled up and create the false impression that some actually know the answers who do not! Tough luck Googlers.
Name the horse that Mike Smith chose to ride in the 1994 NYRA mile instead of Cigar, for whom the race is now named.

Personal Ensign defeated males in the 1988 Whitney Handicap at Saratoga. There were actually only two other horses in the race. Name them.

In 1993 Shug McGaughey won 5 graded stakes race on one program at Belmont. He also had an allowance winner on that card named Regal Solution. Miners Mark won the JCGC, Lure won the Kelso, Strolling Along won the Lawrence Realization, Heavenly Prize won the Frizette, and Dispute won the Beldame.
There was only one other grade one on that program, the Champagne, and McGaughey's horse ran third. Name the winner and McGaughey's horse who ran 3rd.

I know personal ensign beat Gulch in the whitney but don't know the other horse...you give partial credit?

#13 09-15-2006, 07:42 AM

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Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

Was the Smitty horse Devil His Due?

Correct in part one sir! Mike Smith and his agent at the time, Steve Adika, chose to ride Devil His Due on that day putting Jerry Bailey on Cigar.
That same fall, Smith and his agent chose to ride Sky Beauty over Heavenly Prize from McGaughey's barn, and in the following spring completed their blunder trifecta by selcting to ride Talkin Man over Thunder Gulch in the Kentucky Derby.
It was estimated that the Smith/Adika team cost themselves approximately 22 grade one victories just on those three horrible decisions alone. Smith became sour and when Bailey slipped into his place on Cigar he was able to steal the Mott barn from Smith(who was on thin ice there for smarting off to Mott after losing a stakes race in which Mott blamed his ride) and the Bailey era began.

YOu still need to answer the other two questions though Da Hoss in order to get full credit.