Byerley Turk - the only one of the three foundation sires known to have taken part in a race.

It took place at Downpatrick in March 1690 between the Turk and two other horses. All three were ridden by army officers. One account has Colonel Heyford's Barb as the winner but another tells of the Turk galloping off in the wrong direction at the start. When he got back on course he was 1½m behind the others (in a 3m race) but he duly chased them down and got to the line a length in front.

The Byerley Turk (and Colonel Byerley) were combatants at the Battle of the Boyne later the same year.

Ahonoora. Top class sprinter from the late 1970s who has been the main line to continue the bloodline of the Byerley Turk in the modern era, which has seen his influence wain considerably, but includes Cirrus Des Aigles.

Come off the rail

DeMaio, Joey - bass player & songriter with heavy metal band Manowar who claims to have named the ensemble after legendary US racehorse Man O' War.

Eased up

Fascino Rustico - probably not worth quite as much today.

The horse was a well beaten 4th in a Cheltenham bumper in November 2012 and followed up with lacklustre 16th of 23 beaten 39l in the Festival Champion Bumper.

Going well, headed 2 out, faded

Hot Favourite - Sprinter Sacre's SP of 1/4 for his Champion Chase win this year makes him the shortest-priced horse to run at the Festival since Arkle started at 1/10 for the 1966 Gold Cup.

In The Wings. Beautifully bred and nicely named colt by Sadlers Wells out of High Hawk (a Shirley Heights mare) and a three time G1 winner over 12f in France, England and the US.

Jammed in the stalls

Kyllachy. High class sprinter and successful sire.

Ladies are Forever- decent mare who won the group 3 summer stakes for the second time last week.

(Prix) Maurice de Gheest

No Rooms - For the past 3 months I've been wondering just what kind of person lives in a house that has 7 windows, 1 chimney and 3 doors but 0 rooms.

Olivier Peslier

Someone who's obviously a bit, erm.......vacant


Proven over six furlongs

Quickened away

Relished the heavy going

Shatin Spirit- Noel Wilson trained gelding, who after finishing tailed off in his first 3 races has been given an official rating of just 1 according to the racing post.

Trained on from two to three

Until 1945 racing at Ascot was confined to the 4 days of the Royal meeting.

Vaguely Noble. Sold for a record £136,000 at the end of his 2yo campaign he was sent to France to be trained and defeated Sir Ivor in the 1968 Arc after which he was given a Timeform rating of 140 whereupon he was syndicated in the US for a then world record $5m. He become a highly succesful sire and by 1977 his progeny had won more than that in prize money.

Wolferton Handicap

Xtreme, an extremely average son of Xaar.

Yard, head of