Feilden Stakes

Gaff Track - a small, locally supported racecourse normally categorised as Grade 3 or Grade 4.

Harchibald the only horse to have won the Fighting Fifth Hurdle and the Christmas Hurdle twice.

Inaugural Address, the fastest ever horse over 1m 6f

Junior, who has been supplemented for the King George at a cost of £10,000.

K: 8 of the last 9 King George winners have started with this letter

L. The letter of the ninth. ^

Mytton, "Mad Jack" (1796-1834) - eccentric, rake, gambler, prodigious drinker and sometime amateur rider.

Notorious for a number of reasons including attempting to scare away a bout of hiccups by setting fire to his nightshirt. (Medical note: it worked but the side effects nearly killed him.)

Nemzeti dij (Hungarian 2000 Guineas)

Oscar. Very successful Coolmore NH sire whose progeny include Oscar Whisky, Oscars Well, Peddlers Cross, Big Zeb and Rock On Ruby.

Presenting - classy middle distance performer with career earnings in excess of £200,000. Ran 3rd in the 1995 Derby.

Another top NH sire (this one standing at Rathbarry Stud) with two Gold Cup winning sons in War Of Attrition and Denman plus plenty of others in both codes.

Quarter of a mile left

Merry Xmas Big D, jmc and all!

Rose Park, 1956 King George Chase winner and the only win in the race to date for the Scudamore family.

Merry Xmas to thread stalwarts TC and BD.

Seymour Racing Club, Seymour, Victoria

According to the Pedigree Database there are:

Ten Gold Rings, no Calling Birds, two French Hens, nine Turtle Doves and eight Partridges (none of them in a pear tree) all of which screws up the original song no end.

A Happy Christmas to jmc & TC.

Under Wraps - Horse under stout restraint in a race or workout.

Victory for Long Run today ?

Wouldn't be surprised

BoXing Day - the answer to the question, "In what year did Good Friday fall on Boxing Day" is:

Yuletide. 6 horses listed with this name. Only two mares, one by Santa Claus and another out of Merry Christmas, have any real connection in their pedigrees.

Zinger @ #1794!

Arvika Ligeonniere who took the big novice chase at Leopardstown yesterday.

Barbados Gold Cup

Charles II, King - reportedly the only reigning monarch to have ridden a winner when taking the Newmarket Town Plate (est. 1666 and still going) in 1671.

Dwyer, Martin...2006 Derby winning jockey Derby upon Sir Percy.