1. Name the four JP McManus-owned horses to win at the Festival last year.
2. Which Festival race is the oldest steeplechase in the racing calendar?
3. How many Cheltenham Festival winners has current champion trainer Paul Nicholls had?
4. Who was the last 10-year-old to land the Cheltenham Gold Cup?
5. In which year was the Queen Mother's name added to the Champion Chase?
6. Which 50-1 shot came out best in a three-way blanket finish to last year's William Hill Chase?
7. Which Tom Dreaper-trained Queen Mother Champion Chase winner landed the contest at odds of 1-5?
8. Name three of the five triple Champion Hurdle winners.
9. Which horse finished third in back-to-back Cheltenham Gold Cups, in 1997 and 1998?
10. Name the Robert Sangster-owned and Barry Hills-trained winner of the Stayers' (now World) Hurdle in 1992.
11. Fred Winter, Fred Rimell, Gerry Wilson and Dessie Hughes are the only men to have done what at the Cheltenham Festival?
12. Dual Champion Chase hero Viking Flagship was third on his debut at the Cheltenham Festival. In which race?
13. Who rode Morley Street to victory in the 1991 Champion Hurdle?
14. Which horse fell at the last when in contention for the Brit Insurance (now Albert Bartlett) Hurdle last year?
15. Which horse provided Tony McCoy with the first of his three Arkle successes?
16. Name the 2-1 favourite for the Stayers' Hurdle who lost the race in the dying strides to Anzum in 1999?
17. Prior to Moscow Flyer, who was the last Irish-trained horse to win the Arkle?
18. Who was the last Royal & SunAlliance Chase winner to land the Gold Cup?
19. Name two of Nicky Henderson's three Arkle winners.
20. Who was the first Irish-trained horse home in the Cheltenham Gold Cup last year?
21. Owner-trainer Harry Count holds a unique record in the Supreme Novices' Hurdle. What is it?
22. Which horse broke the record for the fastest-ever Royal & SunAlliance Chase when clocking 6 minutes 5.3 seconds in 2000?
23. Irish raiders won seven successive Supreme Novices' Hurdles between 1977 and 1982. But which Michael Dickinson-trained hurdler broke the Irish stranglehold in 1983?
24. Peter Scudamore rode three consecutive winners of the Royal & SunAlliance Chase for two different trainers in 1991-3. Name the trainers.
25. Name the dual Grade One-winning hurdler who finished third in last year's Foxhunter Chase.
26. Which race was previously known as the Broadway Novices' Chase?
27. How old was Beau Caprice when he won the Supreme Novices' Hurdle, the oldest horse ever to do so?
28. Name the only horse to win the Ballymore Properties Novices' Hurdle and the Royal & SunAlliance Chase?
29. Who rode Earthmover to his first Foxhunter success?
30. Which horse landed the Ballymore Properties Novices' Hurdle in 1973, before landing three straight successes at the Cheltenham Festival between 1979 and 1981?
31. Who rode Nicky Henderson's Flown (1992) and Charlie Egerton's Shadow Leader (1997) to victory in the Supreme Novices' Hurdle?
32. Which amateur jockey, now a trainer, landed the 1979 Ballymore Properties Novices' Hurdle on Venture To Cognac?
33. Which Festival race was previously sponsored by the Elite Racing Club and The Daily Express?
34. Who rode King Charlemagne to victory in the 1954 Triumph Hurdle at Hurst Park?
35. Idole First landed his second Cheltenham Festival success when winning the Racing Post Plate last year. Which race did he win in 2005?
36. Which horse gave Aidan O'Brien his first of two successes in the Ballymore Properties Novices' Hurdle?
37. What do Shawiya, Mysilv and Snow Drop
have in common?
38. Three jockeys have managed five winners at one Festival since 1980. Name them.
39. The youngest horse in the race at five years old, he managed a creditable third on the Thursday of last year. Which horse and race?
40. Who is the most successful Queen Mother Champion Chase jockey, with five wins?
41. Name the two Jonjo O'Neill-ridden winners of the Cheltenham Gold Cup.
42.Who is the most successful trainer in the World Hurdle, with three wins?
43. Which horse provided Alan King with his first-ever Cheltenham Festival win in 2004?
44. Which horse was sent off the 7-2 favourite for last year's Triumph Hurdle?
45. Two trainers have won the Cheltenham Gold Cup and Champion Hurdle at the same festival on two successive occasions. Name them.
46. Name the only horse to win both the Pertemps Final and the Cheltenham Gold Cup.
47. Dabiroun gave which trainer and jockey their first winners at the Cheltenham Festival in 2005?
48. Which conditional jockey landed Festival glory courtesy of Gaspara in the Fred Winter Juvenile Novices' Handicap Hurdle last year?
49. Who trained Antonin, the 1994 winner of the William Hill Trophy Handicap Chase?
50. Motivator gave Mick Ryan his only Cheltenham Festival success in which race in 1986?
ANSWERS 1. Heads Onthe Ground (Cross-Country), Wichita Lineman (Brit Insurance (now Albert Bartlett) Hurdle), Butler's Cabin (National Hunt Chase), Drombeag (Foxhunter)
2. Grand Annual
3. 17
4. Cool Dawn (1998)
5. 1980
6. Joes Edge
7. Flyingbolt (1966)
8. Hatton's Grace (1949-51), Sir Ken (52-4), Persian War (68-70), See You Then (85-7), Istabraq (1998-2000)
9. Doran's Pride
10. Nomadic Way
11. Ridden and trained a Champion Hurdle winner
12. County Hurdle
13. Jimmy Frost
14. Black Harry
15. Or Royal (1997)
16. Le Coudray
17. Ventana Canyon (Edward O'Grady)
18. Looks Like Trouble
19. Remittance Man (1991), Travado (1993) and Tiutchev (2000)
20. Cane Brake (fifth)
21. The only French-trained winner of the race (Tasmin, 1954)
22. Lord Noelie
23. Browne's Gazzette
24. Martin Pipe (Rolling Ball, Miinnehoma) and Nigel Twiston-Davies (Young Hustler)
25. Ned Kelly
26. Royal And SunAlliance Chase
27. Twelve
28. The West Awake
29. Joe Tizzard
30. Willie Wumpkins
31. Jamie Osborne
32. Oliver Sherwood
33. Triumph Hurdle (currently sponsored by JCB)
34. Lester Piggott
35. Coral Cup
36. Urubande (1996). Istabraq was his other winner
37. The only fillies to have won the Triumph Hurdle
38. Jamie Osborne (1992), Tony McCoy (1998) and Barry Geraghty (2003)
39. Blazing Bailey (World Hurdle)
40. Pat Taaffe
41. Dawn Run (1986) and Alverton (1979)
42. Fulke Walwyn (1982 and 1986 Crimson Embers, 1985 Rose Ravine)
43. Fork Lightning (William Hill Chase)
44. Lounaos
45. Basil Briscoe (1932-3), Vincent O'Brien (1949-50)
46. Forgive 'n' Forget (1983 Pertemps, 1985 Gold Cup)
47. Paul Nolan and Paddy Brennan
48. Andrew Glassonbury
49. Sue Bramall
50. Pertemps Final
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