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“One that has stuck in my mind is Caesar Beware, by Daggers Drawn.”
Yes, that was a good one. I remember seeing him make a winning debut at Windsor and thinking he was well named. I backed him after hearing the lad walking him around in the pre-parade ring say he was the best two year old in the yard and was fully expected to win.
Daggers Drawn was well named himself, being by Diesis.
“Is Ulysses any better than Dubliners?”
If you did not like “Dubliners”, I could not recommend “Ulysses”. Several of the characters from the former appear again in the latter, as does Stephen Dedalus (a thinly disguised James Joyce), first encountered in “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”.
A recent one well-named on the dam’s side:
Pinatubo ex Lava Flow by Giants Causeway
Loius Freedman, who owned the Cliveden Stud, was a master of the naming game – I’ve a feeling he was responsible for One Over Parr mentioned earlier. He’d obviously read Henry Longfellow, as these two sired by Dancing Brave suggest:
Dancing Brave – Mill On The Floss was named Milly Ha Ha
and
Dancing Brave – Shorthouse was named Lowawatha
And one other of his I liked:
Caerleon – One Way Street was named Usk The Way
“A recent one well-named on the dam’s side:
Pinatubo ex Lava Flow by Giants Causeway”
Yeah they missed a trick there though considering the Giant’s Causeway is a volcanic formation. “Basalt Column” isn’t really very exciting I suppose.
Interesting and fun topic…I clearly do remember this one, the 1999 BC Classic winner:
Cat Thief, by Storm Cat out of Train Robbery
(Train Robbery was by Alydar out of Track Robbery)
There was a horse named Basalt sired by Giants Causeway. Coolmore owned him but clearly thought he was not up to much and sold him. He became a decent handicapper in England but I cannot remember who trained him.
Greenasgrass,
Mount Pinatubo is a volcano in the Phillipines which produced one of the most violent eruptions of the 20th century in the early ’90s, hence the clever(ish) naming from the dam Lava Flow and damsire Giants Causeway
Some like James Joyce; I like volcanos. We’re a broad church here on TRF
When Pat Gibson won the top prize on “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire”, he answered one question on volcanoes and one on racing.
I expect he could have answered a question on James Joyce as well.
Ding Ding. (The legend that is….) from memory by Winker Watson out of Three Bells. She recently retired….
“Bachelors Pad by Pursuit Of Love ex Notebook.”
Pursuit Of Love was a stallion with a name ripe for the risqué.
His dalliance with My Discovery produced Geespot.
Yes I know Pinatubo is a volcano. The Phillipines is a quare way away from Norn Iron is what I meant. They could’ve called him Dalriadalava or something.
I have long thought that owners who give horses repetitive boring names that bear no relation to sire and dam – the Bollin, Sizing and Fox legions are just three that spring to mind – should be sent to prison.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Didn’t Marwan Koukash get told to stop naming horses Gabrial The (Something)?
At least it is not as bad as greyhound racing, with all the Droopys, Ballymacs, Farloes etc.
My avatar, the great Pilsudski, was quite well named.
Josef Pilsudski was leader of Poland after WW1. The horse name after him was sired by Polish Precedent.
According to Wikipedia, Pilsudski is still with us at the ripe old age of 30. What a magnificent racehorse he was.
Oh. I thought Giant’s Causeway was Pinatubo’s sire but it was actually GC’s son Shamardal.
Sham Baby as a nod to both then?Although that leaves the dam Lava Flow out of it. A quick google shows somebody else has tried to establish the meaning of Shamardal, beyond a surname- “handsome” was suggested.
So Pinatubo should’ve been called Hot Lava.
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