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Post by Evelyn on Mar 3, 2014 9:20:20 GMT -5
Here's one from me! Each of these won the KYD, Preakness or Belmont. How many can you name without googling?! 1. Used to be the Drachma, now, the Euro 2. Jerry Rice 3. Librarians insist on this! 4. Where lumber comes from 5. He/She might perform a Choliya, Mer Dandiya, or Rajput 6. What a seamstress uses besides fabric and threads. 7. Always near the top of Los Al trainer standings. 8. Slang for petroleum 9. An unskilled house painter. 10. Someone who “drives” a 747 or Nighthawk 11. First 2 names of a famous actor, now is his 60’s. He was Al gore’s roommate at Harvard! 12. A flat shape with 4 straight sides 13. You call him to get rid of bugs. 14. George Washington and Sally Fairfax had one 15. This:  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2014 14:36:43 GMT -5
Going quickly down the list, I can't come up with many. I'll have to think about this (don't worry, no googling!)
2. Jerry Rice Forty Niner
3. Librarians insist on this! Real Quiet
6. What a seamstress uses besides fabric and threads Needles
8. Slang for petroleum Black Gold
12. A flat shape with 4 straight sides Quadrangle
13. You call him to get rid of bugs. Exterminator
15. This: Street Sense?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2014 15:06:09 GMT -5
1- greek money
2- forty niner
3- behave yourself or real quiet
4- timber country
5- sword dancer
6- needles
7- paul jones
8- black gold
9- dauber (?)
11- tommy lee
12- quadrangle
13- exterminator
14- colonial affair
cant get #10 or #15
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2014 15:07:19 GMT -5
haha George beat me to it, but I didn't look at his. I have just been thinking for 45 minutes and hadn't refreshed the page.
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Post by Evelyn on Mar 3, 2014 16:13:44 GMT -5
You're both wrong on #2. Forty Niner was 2nd in the KYD, 7th in the Prakness and din't run in the Belmont. Otherwise - excellent! #3 is Real Quiet - Wiz - had it been Behave Yourself, the clue would have been "What Evelyn is always asking Wiz to do on the forum"  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2014 16:33:05 GMT -5
In that case I have no idea of number two, and with wiz's hint for number seven it's Smarty Jones. I'm guessing that number ten is Jet Pilot?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2014 19:23:16 GMT -5
NO GEORGE. IT IS PAUL JONES. THERE WAS AN ACTUAL HORSE NAMED PAUL JONES. THAT WASNT A HINT. AND I SAID REAL QUIET. I JUST GAVE 2 EXAMPLES. SO NOW I NEED #2. #10, AND #15?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2014 20:01:53 GMT -5
Yep, you're right. I checked Equibase and the only "Paul Jones" shows up as being unraced since it was so long ago. So didn't think he won the KD. Paul Jones actually won the year that Man O' War was eligible.
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Post by Jon on Mar 3, 2014 20:21:24 GMT -5
Man O' War didn't run in the Derby. Paul Jones won (Yeah - she told me LOL) Jet Pilot's right.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2014 20:50:10 GMT -5
I should have been more explicit - that's what I was trying to say. Chances are Paul Jones wouldn't have won if Man O' War was entered. Anyone know why Man O' War didn't run (good trivia question)?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2014 21:20:36 GMT -5
he ran in the jersey derby instead?
just kidding.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2014 21:34:05 GMT -5
Hah! Actually there were two reasons - his owner (Samuel Riddle) thought the Kentucky Derby was run too early in the year (remember, this was before winter racing and the Aqueduct inner track!!!), and for some reason didn't like racing his horses in Kentucky. His first race as a three year old was the Preakness. But I guess he mellowed over time because he also owned War Admiral, who ultimately won the Triple Crown about 15 years later.
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Post by Evelyn on Mar 3, 2014 23:18:50 GMT -5
You need #2 and #15. Nancy gave me #15! More hints in the morning - answers tomorrow night!
Wiz - 9 is Dauber - no ? needed!
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Post by Evelyn on Mar 4, 2014 10:44:22 GMT -5
Additional clues:
2. His job
15 Use the color
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Post by Evelyn on Mar 5, 2014 8:56:20 GMT -5
1. Greek Money - 1962 Preakness
2. Pass Catcher - 1971 Belmont
3. Real Quiet - 1998 KYD/Preakness
4. Timber Country - 1995 Preakness
5. Sword Dancer - 1959 Belmont
6. Needles - 1956 KYD/Belmont
7. Paul Jones - 1920 KYD
8. Black Gold - 1924 KYD
9. Dauber - 1935 Preakness
10. Jet Pilot - 1947 KYD
11. Tomy Lee - 1959 KYD
12. Quadrangle - 1929 Belmont
13. Exterminator - 1918 KYD
14. Colonial Affiar - 1993 Belmont
15. Blue Larkspur – 1929 Belmont
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2014 10:17:39 GMT -5
Ah, Pass Catcher! Never thought of that.
The first time I looked at the list, the picture for #15 was a red stop sign. Was that a site glitch or did you change it? Unfortunately for us old fart men, many of us are color blind* so that flower looks purple. I never would have guessed that!
*I've seen estimates that about 20% of men over a certain age (40 or 50?) are color blind.
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