The Little Book On Watching Horseracing
By Harold Washburn

A LITTLE HORSERACNG QUIZ


# 1 WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE HORSE THAT UPSET MANOWAR’S RECORD OF NOT EVER LOSING A RACE???

# 2 NAME ONE HORSE THAT YOU KNOW THAT WON THE KENTUCKY DERBY???

# 3 WHO WON THE 1st TRIPLE CROWN (Derby, Preakness, and Belmont Steaks) AND IN WHAT YEAR???

#4 WHAT YEAR WAS THE 1st KY. DERBY RUN???

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ANSWERS TO QUIZ

#1 UPSET (of course, the answer was in the question!! :)

#2 NO HORSE HAS EVER WON A DERBY ANY PLACE IN THE WORLD. THE REASON IS ALL DERBIES ARE FOR 3 YEAR OLDS COLTS AND FILLIES AND THEY DON’T BECOME HORSES AND MARES UNTIL THEY ARE 5 YEARS OLD

#3 SIR BARTON IN 1919 THE DERBY WAS THE 1st RACE HE WON. HE TRIED 6 TIMES AS A 2 YEAR OLD.  HE WAS BRED AND RAISED BY JOHN E. MADDEN AT HAMBURG PLACE. MY DAD (IRA (BUCK) WASHBURN) THEN 18 YEARS OLD GALLOPED HIM. HE WAS SOLD BEFORE HE RAN IN THE DERBY AND SHIPPED EAST. THE NEW OWNER BARROW MY DAD AND TOOK HIM EAST ALSO UNTIL HE FOUND A RIDER THE COULD HANDLE HIM

#4 THE 1st KENTUCKY DERBY WAS RUN IN 1875



 

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