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Bookman
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mchorseracecall wrote:Hew is my trivia question: Name all the racetracks owned by Churchill Downs Incorporated?
Currently, in alphabetical order:
Arlington Park, Calder, Churchill Downs, Fair Grounds

Just for info they had previously owned Hollywood Park. Any others? My mind is slipping.
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mchorseracecall
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Bookman wrote:
mchorseracecall wrote:Hew is my trivia question: Name all the racetracks owned by Churchill Downs Incorporated?
Currently, in alphabetical order:
Arlington Park, Calder, Churchill Downs, Fair Grounds

Just for info they had previously owned Hollywood Park. Any others? My mind is slipping.
Congratulations, Bookman, you've got the correct answers to my trivia question.

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WaquoitNBroadBrush
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Bookman wrote:
mchorseracecall wrote:Hew is my trivia question: Name all the racetracks owned by Churchill Downs Incorporated?
Currently, in alphabetical order:
Arlington Park, Calder, Churchill Downs, Fair Grounds

Just for info they had previously owned Hollywood Park. Any others? My mind is slipping.
Hoosier Park?
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mchorseracecall
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WaquoitNBroadBrush wrote:
Bookman wrote:
mchorseracecall wrote:Hew is my trivia question: Name all the racetracks owned by Churchill Downs Incorporated?
Currently, in alphabetical order:
Arlington Park, Calder, Churchill Downs, Fair Grounds

Just for info they had previously owned Hollywood Park. Any others? My mind is slipping.
Hoosier Park?
Waquoit, in April 2007, Centaur Group bought Hoosier Park from the Churchill Downs Company for 8.2 million dollars.

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Trivia Question:

Name the only filly to win the Kentucky Oaks, Black-Eyed Susan Stakes, Acorn Stakes, Mother Goose and Coaching Club American Oaks. She was born the year Faye Dunaway won the Oscar for Best Actress.
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Blue Jeans wrote:Trivia Question:

Name the only filly to win the Kentucky Oaks, Black-Eyed Susan Stakes, Acorn Stakes, Mother Goose and Coaching Club American Oaks. She was born the year Faye Dunaway won the Oscar for Best Actress.
Davona Dale!
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tres borrachos wrote:
Blue Jeans wrote:Trivia Question:

Name the only filly to win the Kentucky Oaks, Black-Eyed Susan Stakes, Acorn Stakes, Mother Goose and Coaching Club American Oaks. She was born the year Faye Dunaway won the Oscar for Best Actress.
Davona Dale!
Cheers ... you're right! :D

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What Champion filly was Bold Ruler's first and last mare bred?
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Blue Jeans
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Flanders wrote:What Champion filly was Bold Ruler's first and last mare bred?
2nd ETA: Nevermind. Do you mean the mare he bred with to produce a champion filly? Gamely? With Gambetta?

ETA: Not sure I'm reading this question right, but that's not unusual for me. ;)
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Who is the only horse in history to win both the SA Derby and SA Hdcp in the same year?
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swale1984 wrote:Stagehand
Yes!
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Seabiscuit set the race record for the Big Cap in his renowned victory. It was a record that stood until which horse broke it?
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swale1984 wrote:Seabiscuit set the race record for the Big Cap in his renowned victory. It was a record that stood until which horse broke it?
John Henry - '81 & '82.
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Blue Jeans wrote:
swale1984 wrote:Seabiscuit set the race record for the Big Cap in his renowned victory. It was a record that stood until which horse broke it?
John Henry - '81 & '82.

No...the record didn't stand that long!
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swale1984 wrote:Seabiscuit set the race record for the Big Cap in his renowned victory. It was a record that stood until which horse broke it?
Swale1984, it was Spectacular Bid, who broke the Santa Anita track record for a mile and one quarter on dirt, by winning the 1980 Strub Stakes. The horse was owned by Hawksworth Farm, trained by Grover Delp, and ridden by Bill Shoemaker.
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swale1984 wrote:
Blue Jeans wrote:
swale1984 wrote:Seabiscuit set the race record for the Big Cap in his renowned victory. It was a record that stood until which horse broke it?
John Henry - '81 & '82.

No...the record didn't stand that long!
Noor in 1950 at 2.00.00.
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Blue Jeans wrote:
No...the record didn't stand that long!
Noor in 1950 at 2.00.00.[/quote]

Oh yeah, that is the correct answer, Blue Jeans, according to Gil Stratton, on the C.D. "Joe Hernandez: The Voice of Santa Anita", Noor broke Seabiscuit's track record in the distance of a mile and one quarter on dirt at Santa Anita, by winning the 1950 Big Cap. Thirty years after, it was Spectacular Bid who broke the record, by winning the 1980 Strub Stakes.
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Yep! It was NOOR. I was looking at the list of winners, and thought it was interesting that Kayak II set the record of 2:01:40 in 1939, Seabiscuit lowered it by 1/5 the following year, and it stood until the last winner owned by Charles Howard broke it 10 years later.
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mchorseracecall wrote:
Blue Jeans wrote:
No...the record didn't stand that long!
Noor in 1950 at 2.00.00.
Oh yeah, that is the correct answer, Blue Jeans, according to Gil Stratton, on the C.D. "Joe Hernandez: The Voice of Santa Anita", Noor broke Seabiscuit's track record in the distance of a mile and one quarter on dirt at Santa Anita, by winning the 1950 Big Cap. Thirty years after, it was Spectacular Bid who broke the record, by winning the 1980 Strub Stakes.[/quote]

Noor was also the reason Citation didn't run the Hollywood Gold Cup in 1950. They waited a year (1951) so Citation could win and go out a winner (retired a winner) ... with no Noor. :lol:
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