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At long last, it's the moment everyone has been waiting for - the results of the 2009 Hunter Chasers & Point-to-Pointers Annual Quiz!

Sadly, due to dwindling interest (there were only two entrants for the Scholarship Quiz), this is the last quiz in it's present format for the time being. Many thanks to all those that have supported it down the years - especially to quizmaster Brian Armstrong and his encyclopaedic knowledge of the sport.

Quiz Prizewinners

Perhaps fittingly for the very last Scholarship Quiz, the winner was perennial contender Henry Franklin, who edged out David Potter 30-29 in an epic duel. Henry receives the 2010 Loose Leaf subscription, many congratulations to him (again!).

J. Rowlands from Pontyclun, Mid-Glamorgan, was the winner of the Enthusiasts Quiz. He or she (for there was no first name supplied!) receives a copy of the 2010 Hunter Chasers & Point-to-Pointers Annual.

2009 Enthusiast's (questions 1-10) and Scholarship (11-30) Answers

1. Iris's Prince won 10 consecutive Point-to-Points.
2. Nigel Tutty retired after riding 143 winners between the flags and 24 in hunter chases.
3. Special Order provided Oliver Greenall's record 55^th winner of the season at Umberleigh on 14^th June.
4. Rhys Flint (6 Point-to-Points plus two hunter chase wins) and Jodie Hughes won on Lady Myfanwy.
5. Fruitfull Citizen won four races and clinched the National Ladies' Novice Championship for Lucy Jones at Umberleigh on 14^th June.
6. Chorizo ran out in the Novices' Championship race before winning the Men's Open for Oliver Greenall at the Melton Hunt Club meeting at Garthorpe on 11^th May.
7. Richard Woollacott rode seven consecutive winners.
8. Robbers Glen won the John Corbet Cup for Val Jackson at Stratford on 23^rd May.
9. Rhys Flint equalled the National Men's Novice Riders' record set the previous season by Nick Scholfield.
10. Parsifal provided Dick Baimbridge's 500^th training success at the Tiverton Staghounds at Bratton Down on 8^th June.
11. Thatilldo appeared in both the 1960 and 1971 Annuals.
12. This Annual was describing Mar Letoh when stating: "His name is not Swahili for anything - merely Ram Hotel backwards".
13. Miss Philippa "Bunty" Vaughan's win on Seaborne in the 1953 South & West Wilts Adjacent Ladies' race was captured in oil on canvas by Peter Biegel. She also owned 1947 July Cup winner Falls of Clyde; Sarda II, winner of the 1952 Spa Hurdle under Bob Turnell; and the Peter Hastings-Bass-trained Welsh Fairy, third in the 1954 1,000 Guineas under Frankie Durr.
14. Richard Peter Lingen Burton has the Christian name "Lingen". Simon Papillon Tindall has the Christian name "Papillon".
15. Rehearsed won the Solario Stakes and was winter favourite for the 1965 Derby before winning three races for the Greig family in 1970.
16. Matt Jones objected to the judge's decision after his mount Isipingo Lad had been beaten a head by Magical Morris (Paul Hacking) in the Chiddingfold, Leconfield and Cowdray Confined Maiden Division II at Parham on 7^th March 1992. His objection was overruled and his deposit forfeited.
17. Lismateige remounted to finish last in Division II of the Coronation Cup on 21 February 1970 and won the Liverpool Foxhunter on 2^nd April 1970.
18. Andrew Dalton fell or was unseated at the same fence on four of his five mounts at the Badsworth at Wetherby on 13^th February 2000.
19. Distinguished retired commentator Alfie Sherrin saw his namesake win the Royal Artillery Maiden Division I at Larkhill on 26^th January.
20. Highworth won the 1970 Cheltenham Foxhunter while his namesake won the Berks and Bucks Draghounds Restricted at Kingston Blount for Johnny Manners on 5^th May 1984.
21. Dawn Run appeared in the racecard as an entry for the Haydon Restricted at Corbridge on 15^th March 1986. It was mistake for Dawn Row, who was in second place when carried out by a loose horse at the 11^th in Division III.
22. Jackie Dun (aboard subsequent 1958 National Hunt Chase winner Spud Tamson) beat her twin sister Jill Brewis (Salt Peter) in the Duke Of Buccleuch's and Jedforest Adjacent Ladies' race at Friars Haugh on 23^rd March 1957. 1960 Grand National winner Merryman II was unplaced.
23. Illuminati is a half-brother to Oaks heroine Ouija Board.
24. Lay-the-Trump, winner of seven races for Peter Greenall in 1985 and 1986, had previously finished ninth in the 1983 Newmarket Town Plate for the Dowling family.
25. Myway won four of her 19 Point-to-Points in 1961-2, and 33 out of 37 in 1963-66.
26. Jayem won nine Points (1971-1973) for the Chard family and bred Mendip Express, the winner of 38 points for Patsy Willis.
27. Culford Cottage finished ahead of just two horses in his first season as a five-year-old, but subsequently won 34 Point-to-Points and four Fakenham hunter chases.
28. Josie Sheppard won the Cambridgeshire Ladies' Open at Horseheath on 15^th March 1986 after she and Swarm had been carried out at the fourth and rejoined 30 lengths in arrears.
29. International showjumper Dawn Palethorpe won Division II of the Corvedale Cup on Stellus at the Ludlow at Bromfield on 11^th May 1957.
30. Katesville finished first in the Tredegar Farmers Men's Open at Llantarnam on 27^th May 1989, but was subsequently disqualified by the Jockey Club Disciplinary Committee because he was not at the time correctly registered in the General Stud Book.

As always, we checked all of the answers given and found the odd gremlin in the questions and some interesting alternatives:

Question 11:     Thatilldo is desribed in the 1971 Annual as the only horse to appear in both Annuals, but Henry correctly pointed out that "He was not the only horse to appear in both Annuals, this feat was also achieved by G.L.P. (Prickly - Glenside Lass) Owned in 1960 by the Exors. Of the late Mr A.Eubank (Cumberland) & in 1971 by Mr H.S.Mumford (Atherstone)". David also identified G.L.P. and also quite correctly pointed out that Mar Letoh also fulfilled the criteria.

Question 16:     Henry gave the right answer but added a very similar alternative that almost, but not quite, fitted the criteria: "Note: in a similar situation in the 1971 Bisley & Sandhurst & Mr Goschens Hunt Race, Master Miller appeared to everyone bar the Judge to beat Abdication by up to one & a half lengths but was adjudged to have been beaten by a neck, while Abdication's rider was claiming he had been beaten by his 7lb penalty, the Owner/rider of Master Miller objected to the Judges verdict, her deposit was returned".

Question 22:     This was the crucial question. Henry provided the expected answer but David suggested the 1958 running of the Duke Of Buccleuch's and Jedforest Adjacent Ladies' race at Friars Haugh where Ashtwig (Miss Frances Landale) beat Dunboy II (Mrs Pat Hall), with Merryman II unplaced. Dunboy II dead-heated for the 1953 Cheltenham Foxhunter and Merryman II fitted the Grand National criteria, but Frances Landale and Pat Hall are not related. In fact Pat Hall is the older sister of twins Jackie Dun and Jill Brewis, the subjects of the original question.

Question 25:     Henry quite rightly pointed out that Myway won four of her first 19 (not 18) point-to-points in 1961 and 1962.

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