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I always thought that Bobbit Back On was a well named horse.
By Bob Back, the name referenced John Wayne Bobbitt who was in the news at the time after his partner exacted revenge for his infidelity by cutting his penis off with a knife.
Amazingly, Bobbitt claimed the incident improved his love life. Go figure that one.
Maybe they did “Bobbit” back on after all.
Thanks for the good crack. Time for me to move on. Be lucky.
Threeandfourpence runs in the Dewhurst and is very cleverly named, I think. Anyone know why?
Threeandfourpence is by War Front: there was an old story about the importance of good communication and they used an example, almost certainly apocryphal, of an officer at the front in the trenches trying to get an order back down the line by word of mouth: “Send reinforcements, we’re going to advance!”
By the time the message reach the generals it was, “Send three and fourpence, we’re going to a dance!”
There is also the classic, and in my humble opinion the finest naming of a horse of all time, Geespot, who was by Pursuit Of Love out of a mare called My Discovery.
Threeandfourpence is by War Front: there was an old story about the importance of good communication and they used an example, almost certainly apocryphal, of an officer at the front in the trenches trying to get an order back down the line by word of mouth: “Send reinforcements, we’re going to advance!”
By the time the message reach the generals it was, “Send three and fourpence, we’re going to a dance!”
Ha !
I was racking my brains over this one last night ……… the only thing I could think of was that a ‘single’ used to cost six and eight so I was thinking ‘half a single, A side, B side’ …………. no wonder I didn’t get it !
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