Good Name, Good Name (for a horse)

[non vintage]

Not being someone who is ever likely (at this rate) to be in a position to own my own racehorse, the idea of coming up with an original name for a horse is a relatively futile one, but still appeals to the dreamer in me.

I’m not sure if anyone else feels similarly, but here is an open invitation to put forward names that might be suitable for champion two-year-olds, Derby contenders,  Gold Cup winners, or Fakenham claiming hurdle also-rans.

I would suggest that they should be original and a maximum of 18 characters (like wot is the rules), but that apart from this anything goes – imposing, funny, silly, inspirational, rude, esoteric, whatever – and that maybe a short explanation might accompany some of the suggestions where appropriate.

For my part (initially anyway), I always liked:

RIDICULOUSLY HAPPY<br>(which is a very short quote from a book I love)

FUFWATI<br>(which is Amharic for waterfall and a wonderful onomatopoeia)

and

BRASS TRAP<br>(fumble, fumble)<br>

(Edited by non vintage at 1:47 pm on Jan. 30, 2007)

[jilly]

Laybackandspreadem

The name of my Betting Exchange,if i ever get it off the ground.:cool:

[Stormont]

I’m one that likes creating names from the pedigree, so it all depends.

The one like most of all is Jonj O’Neil’s Be My Better Half (Be My Native – The Mrs)

But other than that id like to own something with a name that would be confusing, i.e COMING ON THE OUTSIDE, TAILED OFF, FELL AT THE LAST, LAST TO FIRST, ITSACLOSEONE

whether weatherby’s would let those go through is another question though.

Can you imagine Thommo calling a races with ITSACLOSEONE running???????? that might send him over the top

[rory]

I noticed a horse running at Philadelphia Park last night called "Takemedrunki’mhome" which I thought was absolutely different class.

[sporting sam]

Buy a promising chaser from abroad change its name to <br>PulledupPulledupPulledup and send it to Jonjo O`Neil.<br>Call it PPP for short.

[Grimes]

Steady on their, Jilly, even we old geezers still have libidos, you know. That don’t go till half an hour after we’re deed.

[sporting sam]

Having been Pulled up under the 18 characters rule,<br>P-P-P Will have to be known as PulledupPulledupPU.:cheesy:

[davidjohnson]

Possibly a more lucrative strategy would be to buy a store horse, name it Walnut Whip, win an Irish point and then flog it for 50k to Nick ‘The Nut’ Shutts who has already shelled out (geddit!!) big bucks for the likes of Mister Pistachio and Nopekan for no other good reason other than their names.

[Irish Stamp]

pulleduppulledupfirst – also trained by O’Neill

[warrej]

Quote: from davidjohnson on 6:32 pm on Jan. 30, 2007[br]Possibly a more lucrative strategy would be to buy a store horse, name it Walnut Whip, win an Irish point and then flog it for 50k to Nick ‘The Nut’ Shutts who has already shelled out (geddit!!) big bucks for the likes of Mister Pistachio and Nopekan for no other good reason other than their names.

He bought my dad’s horse Mutawali out of a seller.  I’ve never heard of a Mutawali nut :biggrin:

[insomniac]

Some on here may well remember a decent sprinter called Burglar who later went on to be a moderately successful sire. At that time there was a mare (owned by L.B. Holliday I think)  called Push Off.<br>If I’d had owned that mare, I’d have sent it to Burglar and called the offspring Deterred Burglar.

[Burroughhill]

I’m always trying to think up good names for ‘my horse’ when I eventually win the lottery but so far, I haven’t come up with anything that really makes me go "That’s the one!"

When I was a teenager my horse was always going to be called Dance just because it had a kind of Black Beauty air about it.

Oh and any horse I own will be black

[conall]

Beechill Boy after the name of the area I grew up in

[ToneLoc]

Harry Belafonte or Sad Ken.

[robnorth]

Quote: from Stormont on 4:58 pm on Jan. 30, 2007[br]<br>Can you imagine Thommo calling a races with ITSACLOSEONE running???????? that might send him over the top<br>

Stormont

I’m not sure anyone would notice the difference……..

Rob

[Drone]

CARBON FOOTPRINT who will winter in Dubai

[doyley]

Hello,

The best name I came across was an Irish hurdler:

ARCH STANTON.

Remember the Clint Eastwood Film, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. [Could apply that to this Forum…]

At the end, good old Clint left a baddie precariously standing on a grave cross with a rope round his neck. If he fell…he was history.

The name on the grave was  ARCH STANTON….:)

I like it…

Another terrible name was a flat horse called ABSOLUTELY FACT, that came across totally different when the race was  covered by a Southern commentator. :(

(Edited by doyley at 4:43 pm on Jan. 31, 2007)

regards,

doyley

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