Approval - winner of the 1969 Racing Post Trophy and Henry Cecil's first Derby runner in 1970.

The colt finished 7th behind Nijinsky. He apparently failed to act on the course but the 1970 field oozed class and Approval could probably have finished no better that 4th whatever the track.

Backward type

Cardiff - home of Ely Park racecourse from 1855 to 1939.

Ely (or Trelai) Park lies about 2 miles west of the city centre and is now full of houses. The venue was home to the Welsh Grand National from 1895 to 1939.

Dogs Up - Or 'The dogs are up', referring to the rubber traffic cones placed at certain distances out from the inner rail when the track is wet, muddy, soft, yielding or heavy, to prevent horses during the workout period from churning the footing along the rail. (US).

Escorial, inaugural winner in 1973 of what is now called the Shadwell Fillies' Mile.

Florida Derby

Glenelg - top class US colt (1869-1870) top sire (1884, 1886-1888) and top palindrome (2012).

Halling, probably the best horse ever to win the Cambridgeshire who then went on to record back to back wins in the Eclipse and the International in 1995/96.

International Stakes

Jamesmead - won the Tote Gold Trophy (formerly the Schweppes Gold Trophy & now the Betfair Hurdle) in 1988.

Bred by Mick Channon from his mare Cathy Jane while he was still a footballer.

Kingdom of Bahrain Sun Chariot Stakes.

Lay the bet

Marmaduke Jinks.

Winner of the lincoln handicap in 1937 and immortalised as one of the horses in the Totopoly board game...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Handicap

http://freeparking.topcities.com/Totopoly/index.htm

Newbury Toys 'R' Us....where I bought my Totopoly set from in the 80's...

Over Coat 1936 Lincoln winner and horse in Totopoly and probably closer to when TC really bought the game.

I'll get mine.

Pleasure Beach - home to the only operational steeplechase-type rollercoaster in the world.

Riders sit on a vehicle that looks vaguely like a horse and are taken round an undulating track. The Steeplechase was opened by Red Rum in 1977.

(There's a 96 sec video of some people riding on it here but I really wouldn't bother watching it if I were you.)

Quarter of a shilling....what my Totopoly set cost

Racing brunch. Novel idea to enable racegoers to see Frankel parade and work is being served from 11.30am at Newmarket today. Brunch includes a Premier Enclosure admission badge, a racecard and a smoked salmon and scrambled egg breakfast served with a glass of Champagne or eggs benedict with a bloody mary for £51. The horse will not be joining guests.

Settler

Totòpoli - Italian version of Totopoly.

Tattersalls founded in 1766 and said to be the largest auctioneers of racehorses in the UK & Ireland.

Untried over a mile and a half

Vintage Horse Racing Game - Escalado.

This game seems to function by means of a winding mechanism attached to the horses thereby moving them along the track.

Yours for £89.95 (+p&p).

Wind it up and away you go!

Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in which Snow Fariy will not now run following a setback which ends her season.