USA Horse Racing Trivia

1. The three main types of horse racing in the U.S. are flat track, harness and what other?

From Quiz Around the Track

Answer: Steeplechase

Handicap and turf are terms used in the sport of horse racing, but there are basically three types of races. In the flat track, the jockey sits on the horse and the race can either be run on dirt or on turf (grass). The steeplechase is similar to the flat track, but the horses have to periodically jump over obstacles. In harness, the driver sits in a sulky pulled like a carriage behind the horse.

From Quiz Sixteen Wins in a Row

Answer: Citation

Citation, who two years earlier became the U.S.'s eighth Triple Crown winner, did not race as a four-year old in 1949 due to injury, but came back strong in 1950 to establish his record that would not be touched for 40 years.

From Quiz Horse Racing Upsets

Answer: Donerail

His record time wouldn't last all that long. The following year, Old Rosebud won the Kentucky Derby in 2:03 2/5.

From Quiz American Quarter Horse Racing

Answer: 2

As quarter horses run shorter distances, usually between 1/8 and 1/2 of a mile, they can mature into top-level racers much quicker. The highest purses are for the two-year olds, many of whom are entered into trials for the first triple crown race having never raced before.

From Quiz Horse Racing

Answer: Bobby Hurley

Hurley and his wife purchased the colt as a two-year-old.

From Quiz Famous and Not So Famous

Answer: Genuine Risk

She won the Kentucky Derby, and placed in both the Preakness and Belmont Stakes in 1980. Ruffian won the fillies Triple Crown. Go For Wand never raced in any of the classics. Regret only ran in and won the Kentucky Derby.

From Quiz Citation: Racing's Greatest Thoroughbred

Answer: Bull Lea

Bull Lea was picked up at the Saratoga Sales cheap, and was one of the top sires of his era.

From Quiz Racing Fillies

Answer: Regret, Genuine Risk, and Winning Colors

Regret won in 1915, Genuine Risk won in 1980, and Winning Colors won in 1988.

From Quiz Sunday Silence

Answer: March 25, 1986

Sunday Silence was born seven weeks after his breeder's son was born.

From Quiz Personal Ensign: Racings Greatest Filly

Answer: Private Account - Grecian Banner

Personal Ensign's Sire was Private Account her Dam was Grecian Banner. Personal Ensign also had a full brother , Personal Flag, who won the Suburban and Widner Handicaps.

From Quiz Horse Racing In the 1990s [2]

Answer: Pistols And Roses

The gray son of Darn That Alarm raced for the Will's Family stable.

From Quiz Horse Racing In The 1990s [1]

Answer: Heavenly Prize and Larrocha

Cigar defeated Larrocha in the 1996 Dubai World Cup, and Heavenly Prize in the 1996 Don Handicap.

From Quiz The Greatest U.S. Thoroughbreds

Answer: Round Table

Round Table was later named Horse of the Year in 1958. Ironically, in the 1957 Kentucky Derby, Round Table finished 3rd while Bold Ruler finished right behind him in fourth.

From Quiz Horse Racing

Answer: Steve Cauthen

Cauthen rode Affirmed on all three Triple Crown races. Towards the end of his career, Laffit Pincay took the mount on Affirmed.

From Quiz General Horse Racing

Answer: Codex

Codex is the horse who bumped Genuine Risk in the stretch and survived the inquiry. Angel Cordero Jr. was the jockey on Codex.

From Quiz Daily Racing Form

Answer: Beyer speed figure

Andrew Beyer invented these in the 70s and have become extremely popular among handicappers.

From Quiz Horse Racing Terminology

Answer: Backside

The "Backside" is the term used as that is where the stable area is located at the track.

From Quiz Horse of the Year

Answer: Affirmed

Affirmed raced twenty-nine times and won twenty-two, placed five and showed once. His rivalry with Alydar took them through the Triple Crown where Affirmed triumphed every time. He was also Horse of the Year in 1978, the year he won the Triple Crown.

From Quiz War Emblem: Almost Triple Crown

Answer: the Thoroughbred Corporation

War Emblem was owned by the Thoroughbred Corporation, the racing and breeding organization led by Ahmed bin Salman, a member of the ruling family of Saudi Arabia. The Thoroughbred Corp. had become one of the world's leading horse racing operations.

From Quiz Seattle Slew

Answer: Bold Reasoning

Seattle Slew was a son of Bold Reasoning out of My Charmer, by Poker. Bold Ruler was Bold Reasoning's grandsire, and sire of Secretariat.

From Quiz Famous Race Horses

Answer: The Byerly Turk

The Byerly Turk was captured from the Turks, at the siege of Buda in 1688, by Capt. Robert Byerley of the 6th Dragoon Guards. His name was entered incorrectly in the General Stud Book as "Byerly" instead of "Byerley." It is said that this horse saw service at the Battle of the Boyne in 1692. All modern thoroughbreds can be traced directly through the male line, to either the Darley Arabian, the Godolphin Arabian or the Byerly Turk (who was also probably an Arabian). These horses were brought in to England in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and crossed with English broodmares to create the modern thoroughbred.

From Quiz Stars of the Sport

Answer: Sir Barton

Sir Barton won the preakness just four days after his Derby victory, and squeezed in a win in the Withers Stakes between the Preakness and Belmont.

From Quiz Three Day Eventing and Racing

Answer: Winsome Adante

Winsome Adante won with rider Kimberly Vinoski.

From Quiz Triple Crown's Blueblood: War Admiral

Answer: Man O' War

By Man O' War out of Brush Up, War Admiral had one of the most preeminent pedigrees of any Thoroughbred. Not only was Man O War his sire, but he also had the blood of such great horses as Fair Play (the sire of Man O' War), and on the dam line he had: Ben Brush and Pink Domino.

From Quiz Thoroughbred Racing

Answer: Dr. Fager

For 1968, Dr. Fager was named Horse of the Year, Champion Older Male, Champion Sprinter, and Co-champion Turf Horse. These awards are now known as the Eclipse Awards (beginning from 1971 onwards).

From Quiz Around the Track

Answer: A moving gate

The moving gate is an interesting device that looks like a limousine with collapsible gates on each side. It requires two drivers, one sits in a backward-facing seat watching the horses and controls the speed the vehicle moves, the other sits in the forward-facing seat and steers around the track. The horses and sulkies start slowly running behind the moving gate and are gradually brought up to speed. When they reach the starting point, the arms of the gate are retracted and the vehicle slowly moves to the outside edge of the track away from the running horses.

From Quiz The Sport of Kings

Answer: sulky

According to Wikipedia, which cites "The Encyclopaedia of Driving" 1979, by Sallie Walrond, these one-person carts are called "sulkies" because "the driver must prefer to be alone." Go figure.

From Quiz A Day at the Races

Answer: a race for horses who have never won before

Winners of maiden races are said to have "broken their maiden". The sex of the horse doesn't matter. If the horse hasn't won a race it's considered a maiden, even if it is a male horse.

From Quiz Sixteen Wins in a Row

Answer: Hollywood Gold Cup

Citation won the Hollywood Gold Cup in 1951, the final race of his legendary career. He won the Pimlico Special in 1948 at the age of three.

From Quiz Horse Racing

Answer: Fairmount Park

Canterbury Downs, later Canterbury Park, hosted a slew of graded events before the track closed down for a year in the mid-90s. Both the Ohio Derby and the Thistledown Breeders' Cup were graded in the decade. Ak-Sar-Ben hosted a few graded stakes before the track closed in the mid-90s.

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