Test Your Haskell IQ

Photo: Bob Mayberger / Eclipse Sportswire
The 45th running of the $1,000,000 Haskell Invitational will be contested at Monmouth Park on July 29th, 2012.  The headliners in this year’s field are expected to be Bodemeister who finished second in the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness and Dullahan who finished third in the Derby.
 
In what ways will the 2012 three year-olds become part of the history of the Haskell? Let’s measure your Haskell IQ by answering these ten trivia questions.
 
1) The Haskell was originally a race for older horses, but in 1981 the name was switched to the track’s top race for three year-olds.  What was this three year-old race called before it became the Haskell?
 
2) The first Haskell hat was given away in what year?
 
3) Which trainer has won the most Haskells?
 
4) Which jockey has won the most Haskells?
 
5) Name the fillies that have won the Haskell.
 
6) Four Haskell winners have sired a Haskell winner. Can you name the father and son winners?
 
7) The stakes record time is held by two Haskell winners, name them.
 
8) Which Haskell victor had the greatest winning margin?
 
9) Which breeder has won the most Haskells?
 
10) There is only one letter in the alphabet that has not been represented as the first letter of a Haskell horse. What letter is missing from the list?
 
Since you have been working so hard, let’s take a break from your IQ test and go back to 2006 and watch Todd Pletcher's first Haskell victory.
 
 
Please post your answers to the following few questions in the comment section.
 
Have you ever been to the Haskell? I so, what was the first Haskell that you attended? Will you be there this summer?
 
Who is your favorite Haskell winner?
 
 
Here are the answers to the Haskell IQ test.  How did you do?
 
1) The Monmouth Invitational
2) The first hat was given away in 1988 – Don’t you miss that style?  Brian Zipse probably still has that one.
3) Bob Baffert has won five.
4) Craig Perret rode three winners.
5) Serena’s Song 1995 and Rachel Alexandra 2009
6) Point Given and Coil, Majestic Light and Wavering Monarch, Skip Trial and Skip Away, and Forty Niner and Coronado’s Quest
7) Majestic Light and Bet Twice in 1:47
8) Bluegrass Cat by seven lengths in 2006
9) Claiborne Farm has produced three winners
10) No Haskell runner has a Q name. Yes, there was Xchanger in 2007, Yonder in 1990, and Zen in 1976 

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