Try Our Horse Racing Quiz!

Test your horse racing knowledge with our horse racing quiz! (AP Images)

Just to see if any of you dedicated horseplayers have been paying any attention, here í­s a current racing events quiz for you to test your attentiveness to whatí­s going on in our favorite sport.

More than a mere exercise, you might find that keeping your eyes open beyond watching your $2 play will help your overall handicapping.

The answers will appear at the bottom of this blog, but if you run into any trouble along the way...relax. This is an open book test, one that will also familiarize you with an invaluable tool guaranteed to help your handicapping: Equibase Result charts, all of which are completely free for races run within the past few weeks at every track in America. They can be found at the following url: www.equibase.com

1: Which 3-year-old filly won her third career Grade 1 stakes on Saturday?

2: What winner of what turf stakes at Del Mar on Saturday might go to the Arlington Million on Aug. 21? Who trains that horse?

3: Two jockeys won two Claiming Crown races at Canterbury Park on Saturday -- name one of them.

4: What trainer and what jockey have 6 wins apiece at the end of Del Marí­s first week of racing?

5: What jockey won five races on the Sunday Saratoga card?

6: What 10-1 shot won the Prince of Wales Stakes at Ft. Erie on Sunday, leaving odds on favorite BIG RED MIKE in third place?

7: How many people came out to see RACHEL ALEXANDRA beat a weak field in the $400,000 Ladyí­s Secret stakes at Monmouth on Saturday -- More or less than 13,000?

8: Which track had the most people in attendance through the weekend -- Saratoga or Del Mar?

9: Was Canterburyí­s handle for Claiming Crown Day more or less than $2 million?

10: There were a pair of graded stakes for 2-year-olds run at Saratoga on Friday and Saturday. Can you name one of the two awkwardly named winners?

BONUS QUESTION: What jockey and trainer combined to win a Claiming Crown race and a stakes for 2-yr-olds at Saratoga this weekend? (If you were a horse, there would be an extra bale of hay for a correct response.)

ANSWERS:

1)Devil May Care 2) The Usual Q T 3) Israel Ocampo and/or Julien Leparoux 4) Joel Rosario and Doug Oí­Neill 5) Javier Castellano 6) Golden Moka 7) Less than 13,000; there were 12,859 at Monmouth on Saturday 8) Del Mar had more: Saratoga had 20,352 on Saturday and 18,713 on Sunday; Del Mar had 21,814 on Saturday and 22,377 on Sunday 9) More than $2.1 million 10) LE MI GEAUX won the Schuylerville for 2-yr-old fillies on Friday in the Saratoga slop and MAYBESOMAYBENOT won the Sanford Stakes on Saturday BONUS: Michael Maker and Julien Leparoux won the Claiming Crown Emerald with HEADACHE and the Sanford with Maybesomaybenot.