THE Mark O’Hanlon Racing Quiz took place in The Lord Bagenal Hotel last week and 46 teams took part. The questions were set by Joe Foley and Joey Cullen, and Kevin O’Ryan was the MC.

The winning team of Bobby O’Ryan, Aidan ‘Mouse’ O’Ryan, Ryan McElligott and Ger Connolly scored an amazing 93 points out of 100. In second place came Joseph O’Brien’s team which included J.J. Slevin, Kevin Blake and Mark Hackett. Third was the Thoroughbred Daily News combination of Emma Berry, Nancy Sexton and Brian Sheerin, with breeder Luke Barry.

Here we reproduce 90 of the questions asked. The answers can be found at bottom. Any disputes over the answers should be taken up with the question masters.

1. Name either of the two fences jumped only once in the Aintree Grand National.

2. Who is the chief executive of the British Horseracing Authority?

3. Name the southern-most racecourse in Ireland.

4. At what stud was Facile Vega foaled?

5. The Derby at Epsom was run in memory of whom last year?

6. Which British track was the first to welcome back racegoers after Covid in September 2020?

7. Name the horse on which Davy Russell initially announced his retirement in December.

8. Name the five stallions standing at Ballylinch Stud?

9. What stallion is due to cover Honeysuckle this year?

10. Name the 66-year-old who sired a Cheltenham Festival-winning rider and rode a winner himself on the weekend before Cheltenham this year.

1. French Oaks winner Rafha is the dam of which two leading flat stallions standing in Ireland?

2. Who rode more winners, Peter Scudamore or Tom Scudamore?

3. Who was the last man to both train and ride Cheltenham Gold Cup winners?

4. What is the name of the public hill which overlooks Goodwood Racecourse?

5. How many times has 2022 Derby winner Desert Crown raced?

6. What popular National Hunt stallion only ran twice, winning on debut and then being beaten by a short-head when ridden by Katie Walsh?

7. Name the champion Hong Kong jockey who recently rode two Group 1 winners on his return to Australia.

8. Name Frankie Dettori’s two Epsom Derby winners.

9. In what position did Willie McCreery usually play when lining out for Kildare footballers?

10. Name the horse who has run at the last six Cheltenham Festivals, all in races over three miles, winning once.

1. Who is Amo Racing’s new retained first jockey?

2. Sophie Lacey trained which horse to win a four-year-old maiden point-to-point at Larkhill on June 7th, 2018?

3. Leighlinbridge hero Pat Fahey-trained which horse to win the 2022 Naas November Handicap?

4. Which former jockey wrote the thrillers Breakneck, Dead Ringer and Cover Up?

5. Six-time Group 1 winner Laurens has a two-year-old by which leading stallion this year?

6. Ireland has a new listed race this year, the Kooyonga Stakes. At which track will it be run?

7. Which Lambourn trainer shares his name with a Leinster rugby player?

8. Which British racecourse is also known as Sunbury?

9. Castlegrace Paddy defeated which future Cheltenham Gold Cup winner in the 2020 Fortria Chase at Navan?

10. Name the breeder, trainer and jockey of last year’s 1000 Guineas winner, Cachet.

1. What is the relationship between Galileo and Sea The Stars?

2. Fancy Blue gave which former champion jockey his first classic winner?

3. At which track is the Metal Man Chase staged?

4. How many fences are jumped in the Cheltenham Gold Cup?

5. Now Or Never gave which jockey his final pattern race success when winning the Leopardstown 1000 Guineas Trial?

6. In how many countries did State Of Rest win Group/Grade 1 races?

7. What’s the most number of winners Richard Fahey has trained in a calendar year? Was it 35, 125, 195 or 235?

8. How many all-aged Group 1 sprints over five and six furlongs are run in Britain and Ireland each year?

9. What company currently sponsors the Triumph Hurdle?

10. At what track did Oisin Murphy make his return to race-riding this year?

1. Name the jockey who started this jumps season as a 7lb claimer and has already ridden three Grade 1 winners.

2. What horse won the Virtual Grand National staged in April 2020?

3. Name the leading apprentice who is the son of a prominent equine veterinary surgeon.

4. Tom Sherry, the Irish jockey based in Australia, was recently fined A$1,000 for leaving the racecourse early to do what? Was it to do his laundry, to buy dog food, to meet a Tinder date, or to go to the cinema?

5. Which Breeders’ Cup winner in 2020 emulated his half-sister Iridessa, who had won at the same meeting the year before?

6. Flightline and Frankel are officially the highest-rated flat horses of modern times, both on 140. Who is third on the all-time list, rated 138?

7. Anyharminasking defeated what future champion in his point-to-point?

8. How many times did Stradivarius win at Royal Ascot?

9. Who bred and rode a winner at this year’s Dublin Racing Festival?

10. In what country is Saudi Cup winner Panthalassa trained?

ROUND 6 WAS A PICTURE ROUND (NOT INCLUDED)

1. Name the two sires responsible for the three past winners of the Irish EBF Ballyhane Stakes.

2. How many Irish trainers have trained more winners than Willie Mullins?

3. When the original weights were published for this year’s Aintree Grand National, which three Irish trainers were responsible for the joint top-weights?

4. Kyprios was unbeaten in 2023. How many times did he race?

5. My mother was born in Carlow and I have cousins in Bagenalstown. I’m a trainer and I married a trainer’s daughter. One of my horses was among the leading first season sires last year. Who am I?

6. Ronan Whelan’s family own which stud in Co Kildare?

7. Which current jockey has ridden 21 British classic winners and bred a Champion Chase winner?

8. Can you identify these three top-class thoroughbreds by their pedigrees?

By Tapit out of Feathered

By Iffraaj out of Balladonia

By Sholokhov out of Labarynth

9. Name the Richard Hannon-trained stayer who finished second in the 2021 Doncaster St Leger and the 2022 Ascot Gold Cup.

10. Who trained their 1,000th winner in Britain on December 15th, 2022? Was it Charlie Appleby or Mick Appleby?

1. Name the Irish-bred and Hong Kong-trained winner of the Amir Trophy in Qatar this year.

2. How many times did Quevega win at the Cheltenham Festival?

3. Which GB-suffixed filly is the highest earning British-bred horse of all time?

4. Name the horse bred by a Group 1 winning trainer (now deceased) who was a 32,000gns yearling, was unbeaten at two, won a classic at three, and had 22% stakes winners from his first crop.

5. Who trained the most recent British-trained winner of the Cheltenham Gold Cup?

6. Name the last male horse to win back-to-back runnings of the Irish Champion Stakes.

7. Bauyrzhan Murzabayev is the new stable jockey for which champion trainer?

8. How did Charlotte Jones and Lunar Discovery make racing history in February?

9. Which Newmarket-based Breeders’ Cup-winning trainer is the son of a former huntsman with the Galway Blazers?

10. How many trebles did apprentice jockey Billy Loughnane ride in January?

1. Who was the leading sire at this year’s Cheltenham Festival?

2. Which former champion amateur rider has the first names Timothy Martin?

3. Name all of Willie Mullins’ Champion Hurdle winners.

4. What is Dubawi’s published covering fee for 2023?

5. Who trained Muirin, the dam of last year’s Group 1 winner Blackbeard?

6. Multiply the average gestation period of a broodmare in months by the number of Group 1 wins recorded last year by Auguste Rodin, Blackbeard and Little Big Bear.

7. Whose first winner was Rossdara, final winner was Wa Wa, and had 36 Grade 1 winners in between?

8. Which prominent international racehorse owner bought the top lot at the recent Goffs Dubai Breeze Up Sale?

9. Name the Wexford-born jockey who rode the winner of the 2022 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes.

10. Name the King George VI Chase winner who avoided Santa Claus on the Kempton run-in.

1. What age is Gold Cup winner Galopin Des Champs?

2. What was the winning distance in Gaelic Warrior’s maiden hurdle win? Was it 56, 66, 76 or 86 lengths?

3. What Irish-trained horse won a listed sprint a day after this year’s Goffs Thyestes Chase?

4. Hong Kong star Golden Sixty is out of a mare who won the Debutante Stakes. Who trained her?

5. Azamour won the Prince of Wales’s Stakes and the King George in 2005, but at what two tracks were they run that year?

6. Shinzo won which major race recently?

7. Recent Newbury hunter chase winner Lift Me Up is owned by a member of which girl band?

8. Name the most recent winner of the 2000 Guineas to sire a winner of the same race.

9. Which big race was won in recent years by jockeys Paddy O’Hanlon, Ricky Doyle, J.J. Slevin and Ger Fox?

10. Which two recent winners of the Juddmonte International at York are named after countries?

ROUND 1: The Chair and the Water Jump, Julie Harrington, Killarney, Irish National Stud, Lester Piggott, Doncaster, Liberty Dance, Bayside Boy, Lope De Vega, Make Believe, New Bay and Waldgeist, Walk In The Park, Liam Burke.

ROUND 2: Invincible Spirit and Kodiac, Peter Scudamore, Jim Culloty, Trundle Hill, Three, Katie Walsh, Zac Purton, Authorized and Golden Horn, Midfield, Paisley Park,

ROUND 3: Kevin Stott, Energumene, Drop The Anchor, John Francome, Invincible Spirit, Navan, Jamie Osborne, Kempton, A Plus Tard, John Bourke, George Boughey and James Doyle.

ROUND 4: Half-brothers, Donnacha O’Brien, Tramore, 22, Kieren Fallon, Four, Seven, JCB, Chelmsford.

ROUND 5: Michael O’Sullivan, Potters Corner, Cian MacRedmond, To buy dog food, Order Of Australia, Dancing Brave, Constitution Hill, Four, Patrick Mullins, Japan.

ROUND 7: Air Force Blue and Bated Breath, One (Aidan O’Brien), Ted Walsh, Shark Hanlon and Gordon Elliott, Six, Karl Burke, Churchview Stud, Frankie Dettori, Flightline, Wootton Bassett and Shishkin, Mojo Star, Charlie Appleby.

ROUND 8: Russian Emperor, Six, Enable, Night Of Thunder, Colin Tizzard, Dylan Thomas, André Fabre, First horse and jockey to be disqualified for breaking the new British whip rules, James Fanshawe, Three.

ROUND 9: Shantou, Ted Walsh, Hurricane Fly, Faugheen and Annie Power, £350,000, Eddie Lynam, 44, Bryan Cooper, Jim Hay, P.J. McDonald, Kicking King.

ROUND 10: Seven, 86, Coachello, Jim Bolger (Gaudeamus), York and Newbury, Golden Slipper, Spice Girls, Dawn Approach, Irish Grand National, Australia and Japan.