Horse race.

[LucyThomas6]

What is the longest horse race run during the English flat season?

[starrs]

The Queen Alexandra Stakes at Royal Ascot.

[LucyThomas6]

No. try again.

[No,Knowledge]

so why the frig you asking if you know?

i do know btw.

[LucyThomas6]

So if you know then tell me.

[tamborine]

so do I. I'm just practising my typing - gud innit?

[No,Knowledge]

let me just say ..............trick question .....................it's not a flat race

[LucyThomas6]

So tell me then.

[No,Knowledge]

erm..............................................no.

[LucyThomas6]

OK. Suit yourself then.

[tamborine]

50metres - that's cruel to make a horse gallop that distance.

[stewey]

Is it true that a lot of manic-depressives reside in Epsom Downs?

[tamborine]

epsom & downs = depression.

[vauny]

The Grand National

[osprey]

It's The Grand National as the flat and jump seasons overlap. Standard quiz question.

[paraffin]

It shouldn't be the Grand National simply because Aintree is a National Hunt course and its fixtures, few as they are, are compiled as such, i.e. "over the jumps".

The 3 miles 5 furlongs steeplechase, formerly known as the Whitbread Gold Cup, which was run at Sandown on Saturday, should be the answer because it was part of a mixed flat/jumps card.

[jjcaa1995]

The Boat Race. Oxford v Cambridge under the jockey club rules.

[LucyThomas6]

Once again Paraffin, you fail to read the question before jumping in with both feet.

[tamborine]

wots the answer? Old Coach houses & pubs are distanced approx 5miles apart for change of horses. Horses trotted that distance not galloped.

[LucyThomas6]

The answer, as vauney and osprey have said, is the Grand National. It is run in early April, approximately two weeks after the official start of the English flat season.

By the way. The Grand National is longer than the boat race by some 300 yards.

[paraffin]

Yakki dah, Lucy:

Nice to see you having a swipe at me, and no one else, despite my considered reply to your obtuse question.

By the way, why "the English flat season"? Do flat tracks such as Hamilton, Ayr+Musselburgh(both mixed) in Scotland, and Chepstow(mixed) in Wales, for example, not count? Are they not also administered by the Jockey Club?

There you go again with your English bias, Lucy: naughty, naughty. I've told you about that before, but you clearly choose to ignore the Celtic nations yet again. Echoes of "meritorious" British Olympians?

"...the official start of the English flat season." I hate to have to correct yet another of your erroneous statements, Lucy, but what you were actually referring to is the beginning of the "turf" season in the UK, not just England, Lucy.

You see, to enlighten your ignorance, Lucy, flat racing continues all year round on the all-weather surfaces at, for example, Lingfield, Southwell and Wolverhampton, doesn't it?

Now any mug, including yours truly who has followed horse racing since Piggott was an apprentice, knows full well that the Grand National is the longest race in the UK calendar, but to post such an ambiguous question and then deride the efforts of those who choose to answer it, Lucy, can only jeopardise your chances of being voted my "AB Poster of The Year"!

Do you think I should visit the "AB Suggestions" thread?

Yakki dah, Lucy.