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1)Three strikes for this bird (6)
2)Blackadder actor in the boat race (4,6)
3)F1's most successful British policeman (5,7)
4)Sport with houses and stones (7)
5)Stately venue for horse trials (8)
6)Sheffield venue for snooker (3,8)
7)This dame runs middle distance (5,6)
8)This starts a hockey game (8)

1= Turkey

Hi Danny,

Am still working on '1' and '2' but:

3. Nigel Mansell
4. Burleigh
5. The Crucible
6. Kelly Holmes
7. Pushback

Regards,

Caravaggio

5. gatcombe
6. the crucible
7. kelly holmes
8. bullyoff

Thnaks Caravaggio, helena & billie

Hi Danny,

Helena's responses have put a doubt in my mind so check Gatcombe as opposed to Burleigh. I am sorry that I got my numbers wrong - short-term memory loss - so the rower is Hugh Laurie [he has some pedigree as a rower - look at Wikipedia] and the missing sport is curling.

It's definitely a pushback in hockey now not a bully-off [sorry Helena!].

Regards,

Caravaggio

Hi Danny,

Before I sign off for now, it's Burghley not Burleigh and the house goes back to Elizabethan times.

Hope you win!

Caravaggio

Thanks again Caravaggio for all your help

sorry for confusing everyone a bully off is when there is a stoppage of play and it is restarted with a bully off when the restart does not favour either team.

gatcombe park is the home of princess anne and they hold a 3day event there, but it may not be classed as a stately home, but i couldn't come up with another venue which held equestrian events, burghley is a far better answer.

respect caravaggio