WELL over €30,000 was raised at last Tuesday night’s ITBA Racing & Breeding Quiz (and online auction) in the Lord Bagenal Hotel in Bagenalstown, Co Carlow. The proceeds went to the family of the late David Naughton of Loughtown Stud.

The quiz was named in memory of Mark O’Hanlon, the Irish Thoroughbred Marketing representative who died last year. Members of Mark’s family were in attendance to present the Mark O’Hanlon Perpetual Cup to the winners. Representing Horse Racing Ireland, the winning team consisted of Martin Murphy, Shane Doyle, Brian Kavanagh and Jason Morris.

The questions were scripted by Joe Foley of Ballyhane Stud and are reproduced here. The multiple-choice and picture rounds have been excluded for space reasons. Of the 80 questions published here, the winners answered seven incorrectly and those questions are marked with an asterisk. Are you smarter than them?

ROUND 1

1. A statue of what horse overlooks the parade ring at Leopardstown?

2. Name Willie McCreery’s sole Group 1 winner to-date.

3. Four shares in what leading French stallion were sold at auction recently?

4. Lizzie Kelly recently became the first woman to win a Grade 1 race over jumps but on what horse?

5. Who was the leading sire of two-year-olds in Europe in 2015?

6. What company is the new sponsor of the Cheltenham Gold Cup?

7. Having raced in a clockwise direction for 64 years, which Irish racecourse now races anti-clockwise?

8. Name the horse who has finished second in the past two runnings of the July Cup.

9. How many races will be run at this year’s Cheltenham Festival?

10. Christophe Soumillon shared the 2015 French jockeys’ title with whom?

ROUND 2

11. Which retired flat jockey is a co-breeder of Irish Derby winner Jack Hobbs?

12. Who trained Long Dog to win his maiden on the flat?

13. Who is first jockey to trainer Charlie Hills this year?

14. What horse was disqualified from first place in the Minstrel Stakes at the Curragh in 2015 and what horse was placed first?

15. Name the most recent winner of the Champion Hurdle to stand at stud.

16. Rich Ricci is chairman of what online betting company?

17. What Canadian city is moving from Australia to race in Ireland this year?

18. Who rode Special Tiara to finish an unlucky second in the 2015 Tingle Creek Chase?

19. Name the son of Norse Dancer who is ante-post favourite for the Neptune Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham.

20. Who finished second to Pat Smullen in the 2015 Irish jockeys’ championship?

ROUND 3

1. Who rode Don Poli to win the Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Hurdle at Cheltenham?

2. Who trained Perkunas to become the first British winner in Qatar recently?

3. Which Irish racecourse is a palindrome?

4. Who rode Make Believe to win the Poule d’Essai des Poulains and Prix de la Foret?

5. Who is the owner of Don’t Tell No One, winner of the first race run in Ireland in 2016?

6. Name the sire of 1992 Irish Derby winner St Jovite and the jockey who rode him to win the King George and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot.

7. Which future Champion Chase winner finished down the field behind Champagne Fever in the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle?

8. Name the most recent unbeaten winner of the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.

9. Can you name the three Aintree Grand National winners to carry the colours of Trevor Hemmings?

10. What jockey was in trouble for riding with no boots at Goodwood last September?

ROUND 4

1. Which future 2000 Guineas winner was beaten in the Anglesey Stakes by the dam of Eddie Lynam’s Queey Mary winner?

2. Who rode Arctic Fire to finish second in the 2015 Champion Hurdle?

3. Which French jump jockey won a Group/Grade 1 races on the flat in France and the US last year?

4. Name the Irish Derby, Ascot Gold Cup and Coronation Cup winner who covered over 327 mares last year.

5. What two female trainers sent out the two most recent winners of the Welsh National?

6. Harry Martin and Steve Coburn bred which top racehorse?

7. How many horses beat Sea The Stars in his racing career?

8*. See More Business was the most recent British-bred horse to win the King George VI Chase and he did so twice. Name the two jockeys who rode him – one was Irish, the other British.

9. What horse has been allotted top weight in the 2016 Aintree Grand National?

10. Michelle Payne won which big race last autumn?

ROUND 5

1. A.P. McCoy’s second last winner over jumps came aboard one of the highest rated horses he has ever ridden. Name the horse.

2. St Nicholas Abbey’s British and Irish record for prize money won around the world was eclipsed in 2015 by what horse whose total surpassed £5 million?

3. What horse trained in Leighlinbridge won the Thyestes Chase in 1994?

4. Who responded to criticism from Jeremy Noseda by saying ‘he can kiss my ass’?

5. Name the last horse NOT trained by Willie Mullins to win the Ryanair Hurdle at Leopardstown. Clue: It was a mare.

6*. What Co Wicklow stud bred Simple Verse?

7. What surname links a current Republican Party candidate for the US presidency and a former jockey who won the Irish Champion Stakes and Irish St Leger and is now a top trainer in Hong Kong?

8. Name the sire of the 2015 American Horse of the Year.

9. What horse finished last of eight on its debut last season and went on to win two Group 1 races?

10. Vigil gave what jockey his final racecourse ride at Leopardstown last December?

ROUND 6

1. What horse won a record 27th all-weather race at Southwell in December?

2. A.P. McCoy was on board what horse when he announced his retirement plan at Newbury in February 2015?

3. What stallion is by Inchinor out of Rambling Rose, and what Group 1 winner is by Lawman out of Mauresmo?

4. Risk Of Thunder won the La Touche at Punchestown on how many consecutive occasions?

5. Montjeu sired two winners at the 2011 Cheltenham Festival – Hurricane Fly and the winner of the first running of the JLT Novice Chase. Name that horse.

6. Name the man who rode a winner of the King George VI Chase, trained a dual winner of the same race, and sired a dual winner of the same race.

7*. Who is the damsire of top French miler Solow?

8. A Dubawi foal out of what Irish 1000 Guineas winner topped the Goffs November Foal Sale last year?

9. Name the Grade 1 novice hurdle won by Yorkhill in January.

10. I was born in Nigeria, raised in Clogherhead, Co Louth, was an ordinary jockey but am now a top trainer. Who am I?

ROUND 7

1. Name the two Italian jockeys to have won the Dubai World Cup.

2. How many winners at Royal Ascot did Ryan Moore have last year?

3. Name the two jockeys who rode Viking Flagship to win the Champion Chase at Cheltenham?

4. Hit It A Bomb won at what three tracks in 2015?

5. Federico Barberini’s sister-in-law was the first woman to compete in the Aintree Grand National. Name her.

6. Before Jamie Codd, who was the last Wexford man to win The Irish Field Point-to-Point Riders’ Championship?

7. Pat Dobbs won his first Group 1 winner in 2015 aboard what Tattersalls Ireland garaduate?

8. Name the dam of Invincible Spirit and Kodiac, and what classic did she win?

9. How many Group 1 races are staged during Irish Champions Weekend?

10. Name the only winner sired by George Washington.

ROUND 8

1*. What mare topped the 2015 December Sale at Tattersalls?

2. Who trained 2015 Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner Runhappy?

3. Name the 1986 Irish 1000 Guineas winner who was only allowed run when her passport was faxed to the Curragh before racing.

4. Which Grade 1 chase at Sandown is named after a local roundabout?

5. Which British trainer sent out a record 12 winners in one day in 1982?

6*. Which Irish jockey rode an English-trained horse to win the Woodbine Mile last year?

7. Name the chief superintendent who led the Shergar investigation and shares his name with a leading pinhooker of today.

8*. Name trainer John Ferguson’s first Grade 1 winner over jumps.

9. Which leading novice chase of this season shares his name with a 1997 song and album by The Stranglers?

10. Name the five Group 1 races won by New Approach.

Answers can be found on page A46 or search theirishfield.ie for ‘ITBA Quiz Answers’