famous horses -

[LAC21652]

This is a stinker of a quiz - any help will be greatly appreciated
5. Take a drink to give you ��.
6. Social occasion for M.P's
7. Very alert
11. Wee dram before bedtime
12. Famous explorer (surname)
15. Royal Kingdom
16. Old fashioned lover who is
wonderful
18. Ocean 'doo'
20. Wise fish
21. Mountain in Sutherland
22. Force that draws together
23. To exist impartially or reasonably
24. Only a ruler
25. Sonny's partner and a cat with no
pasture
26. Long lie

[Kanewood]

25 Shergar?

[JMR27]

18. Sea Pigeon

[x-ray]

25 is shergar (cher + gar from garfield)

[JMR27]

7. Oh So Sharp

[mrs_overall]

6. Party Politics

[Kanewood]

5. Red Rum (take it as read+rum)

[Bewlay Bros]

21) Ben Nevis

[JMR27]

11. Night Nurse?

[campbellking]

7. Lucinda Green had a horse called 'Wide Awake' which won Badminton and then dropped dead during the presentation.

[campbellking]

24. Annelei Drummond Hay (I think,can't quite spell her name) rode 'Merely a Monarch' (another 3 day event horse)

[campbellking]

15. I think is another Lucinda Green horse, Regal Realm.

[heatherglen]

16 - Casanova?

[Bogtrotter]

21 must be Arkle, or possibly Foinavon - both horses belonged to the Duchess of Westminster and both mountains are on her Sutherland estate. Ben Nevis is not in Sutherland.

[MMAB]

20 is WILY TROUT - a former dressage horse of Christopher Bartles !

[MMAB]

5 , I would say , is Dutch Courage ... another dressage horse !

[MMAB]

11 is NIGHTCAP - a famous eventer

[campbellking]

26. Could be the Ingrid Klimke horse (eventer) Sleep Late

[campbellking]

23. yet another Lucinda Green horse 'Be Fair'

[campbellking]

12. Mark Phillips rode a horse owned by the Queen called Columbus