page_title: Quiz (horse)
section_title: 1802: four-year-old season
hierarchical_section_title: Quiz (horse) / Racing career / 1802: four-year-old season
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: A swan takes off from The Broadwater, an artificial lake on the River Lea, with Brocket Hall behind. Brocket Hall was built by James Paine in 1760, although there had been two previous buildings on the site, the first dating from 1239. It was the home of two Prime Ministers, Lord Melbourne and Lord Palmerston, who died at Brocket in 1865 while in office. It was later the home of the Baronets Brocket, the third Baronet converting it into a hotel, which is its current use. It is grade I listed - for listing particulars see http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=158435&amp;resourceID=5.
context_page_description: Quiz was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire best known for winning the classic St Leger Stakes in 1801. Quiz was a durable, top-class performer, winning at least once a year in racing career which lasted seven seasons from August 1801 until April 1807. Apart from the St Leger he won many other important races including three Brocket Hall Gold Cups, two Oatlands Stakes at Newmarket Racecourse, a Great Subscription Purse at York, a King's Plate and the Jockey Club Plate. In all he won twenty-one times in thirty-six races for four different owners before being retired to stud, one of which was Mr Hallett Esq, where he proved to be a successful sire of winners.
context_section_description: In 1802, Quiz was sold to race in the pea-green and black colours of Francis Dawson and moved to compete in the south of England. He began his four-year-old campaign at Newmarket's Craven meeting in April where he won a 100 guinea match race against Mr Payne's unnamed colt, carrying thirty-two pounds more than his rival. At the next Newmarket meeting in May, Quiz sustained his only defeat of the season when finishing third under top weight in a ten furlong sweepstakes. At the Second Spring meeting two weeks later, Quiz contested the Jockey Club Plate in which he defeated the 1799 St Leger winner Cockfighter over the four mile Beacon Course, despite being opposed in the betting. On 28 May, Quiz appeared at Brocket-Hall in Hertfordshire where he won the local Gold Cup over three and a half miles, beating five opponents at odds of 4/5.
  Quiz returned north in late summer for two races at York. On the 24 August he won a King's Plate, repeating his St Leger performance by beating Belleisle into second. Four days later he defeated Lennox, Alonzo and Muly Moloch to win a division of the valuable Great Subscription Purse over four miles.
caption: The grounds of Brocket Hall, where Quiz won three Gold Cups.
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