HORSE PLAY; Just for the fun of it.

Googling a runner Empress Leizu 1.20 Lingfield Leizu was a legendary Chinese empress and wife of the Yellow Emperor. According to tradition, she discovered silk and invented the silk loom in the 27th century BC. The story goes she found silkworms eating mulberry leaves and spinning cocoons. She collected some cocoons, and sat down to have some tea. While she was sipping a cup of tea, she dropped a cocoon into the steaming water. A fine thread started to separate itself from the cocoon. Leizu found she could unwind this soft and lovely thread around her finger. No, we don't believe that story either.

Easy as 1-2-3 1 Which company sponsors the Grand National? 2 Which 100-1 shot romped to victory in last season's Grand National? 3 Who rode last season's National winner? 123 Answers on page 32 On this day... November 1, 1939 Djebel proved himself the champion two-year-old with an easy victory in the Middle Park Stakes on Newmarket's July course. Marcel Boussac's colt scored under Charlie Elliott by two lengths from Tant Mieux, with champion filly Godiva third.

There had been no racing in France since the outbreak of war two months earlier, but during the 'phoney war' Djebel was able to cross the Channel from Albert Swann's Chantilly stables. He also won the 2,000 Guineas the following May.

The List 5 oldest living British champion jockeys Jack 91 Dowdeswell Dick Francis 89 Joe Mercer 73 Lester Piggott 72 StanMellor 71 Who am I? I love Santa Anita. It's my home course and has played host to many of my big track successes, which included six straight million dollar races between 1996 and 1998. I was inducted into the US Racing Hall of Fame in 2001, and when the Breeders' Cup was back at Santa Anita two years later, I had the day of my life with four winners on the card. Pleasantly perfect, don't you think. Answer on page 32 Compiled by James Hill, Nicholas Godfrey and John Randall