Motivator (Derby winner)

Naps table

O'Brien, Aidan - his sixth win in last Saturday's 2,000 Guineas with Camelot has been bettered only by John Scott with seven winners between 1842 & 1862.

Papillon the 2000 National winner

Pamir...good horse from the sixties. Now I'm gonna spend the rest of the day trying to remember who trained it. Perhaps Walter Nightingall or Peter Walwyn?

Should've done the correct letter then you wouldn't have had the problem

Quinn, John

Royal Applause, top class sprinter from the 1990s and successful sire.

Scarborough - between 1751 & 1852 sporadic meetings were held on Scarborough beach under the Rules of Racing.

A more permanent course was established on nearby Seamer Moor in 1868 but the track closed in 1907.

Takes up the running

Umidwar.

Veitch, Patrick - very successful punter, claims to have taken £10m from the layers in an eight year period.

Telegraph Interview 2009.

William Hill Braveheart Night Next Week Claiming Stakes

Xenophon...Brendan Powell horse and the first known writer of a book on horse riding.

Yvonne Evelyn....American horse

Zola, Émile - French naturalist author of the 1880 novel Nana which is about...


The book contains an entire chapter describing the atmosphere and scenes at Longchamp before and during the 1870 running of the Grand Prix de Paris, won by English jockey Charles Pratt on Sornette.

Astrology well named colt by Galileo out of Ask For The Moon who runs in today's Dee Stakes.

Better Than Sex....the title of Mick Fitzgerald's autobiography

Chanteur ll

Dabirsim

Empery....1970s Derby winner-L. Piggott up.

Fair Bunny....6.15 at Thirsk tonight....my money will be on it.

Guinea - as far as I'm aware this terminology is used in just two spheres - the auction of thoroughbreds and the sale of some livestock such as rams.

Heavy going...

I'll Have Another - 2012 Kentucky Derby winner. Changed hands for $11,000 as a yearling and again for $35,000 as a 2-y-o.

Owner Paul Reddam has in the past had horses with British trainers notably Breeders' Cup winners Wilko (Jeremy Noseda, 2004 Juvenile) and Red Rocks (Brian Meehan, Turf winner in 2006).

Reddam is the founder of the payday loan company CashCall.

June, during which the Derby and Royal Ascot meetings take place.