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There are 2 Invisible Man’s registered at the moment. Godolphin’s Royal Hunt Cup winner and Tom George’s chaser.
I had a notebook entry on the former since his run at Pontefract last Autumn, unfortunately my software picked it up as George’s horse and never flagged it during the week <!– s:roll: –>
<!– s:roll: –> which just about sums my punting up at the moment as my overloaded data and mind struggle to keep up with the daily tidal wave of racing. I need to cut back… <!– s:? –>
<!– s:? –>Anyway, I didn’t think registration of horses with the same name was allowed. Am I incorrect (most probably) or has a clerical error entered the system?
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Do you reckon we’ll ever run out of horse names in the next 50 years?
What would happen if every possible word was made up, I’d hate to see horses going around with names that make no sense.
I doubt it Mr Wilson as they are always recycling names from the past, and I’m sure the Arabs can keep giving their horses unintelligible and unprounceable names to last forever!
I think running out of horse names is one thing we dont have to worry about!
On that note though anyone got any names they like and think are imaginative. Ill start with an obvious one but a classic nonetheless Forpadydeplasterer
Not sure you could call these names imaginative but I just remember them from many years ago:
W Six Times – never found out what the W stood for!
Hellcatmudwrestler – how did anyone come up with that name in the first place?
Yes david, well to an extent anyway.
Named after the nickname of one of the main associates of Bertie Ahern who came to prominence in Ireland during the infamous and ridiculously state funded expensive hearing into his personal finances.
Love the hellcatmudwrestler name – is that real??
The Jockey Club allows names of horses that have been dead for >15 years to be reused, unless they are a classic (Derby, Preakness, Belmont) winner, a winner of the Breeders Cup Classic or Breeders Cup turf, and/or a Hall of Fame inductee. This only applies to horses registered in the US, though, so you still see some repeats.
Probably my age but I do see more and more repeats.
Er, I’ll think of some soon and post them.
Famous repeats anyone?
(W Six Times – that was Dickinson wasn’t it? Was he one of the Boxing Day 12?)
Horse names are always getting reused.
Royal Mail won the National then 50 years later we’re given another Royal Mail. So either names get repeated or that was the greatest 60 year old effort in the history of the world.
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Some owners must put in about 30 seconds thought to naming their horses. I see the Aussie owner of Starcraft had one running the other day from the Cumani yard called "My Manikato".
The name Manikato wouldn’t mean a lot to most folks in the UK but it’s one that the vast majority of Aussie racing fans would ever go near. I’m sure it’s a name on the international banned list and if it isn’t certainly should be.
Mr Makin showed no respect or imagination when it came to naming that one. To put it in UK terms it would be like calling one "My Kauto Star". Who would do that?
I thought I had a link somewhere to all the rules/regs in force regarding naming racehorses but can’t find it.
I remember the second Royal Mail – you’d have thought all National winners would be protected names?
It is understandable if a small owner re-uses a name from 30 or 50 years ago, but I get a bit peeved about some of the names that Coolmore/Ballydoyle pick. Two at the moment are Scottish Reel, when we recently just had one, and Rocket Man, when there is a famous Rocket Man currently.
I suppose the Irish fans will respond by complaining about Denman (AUS), but at least that is a Flat horse with no prospect of becoming a jumper, and it can be argued is named after the American racing commentator.
The last box on the Mark Johnston stable tour on Good Friday had the horse looking out and the lad standing at the stable door.
The horses name on the stable door (before you opened the bar gate to leave the stable)….. Hadawayunsheyite
Hahahhahhah absolutley class. I’m sure its not in training. A hack with another name entirely no doubt.
Someone ran a horse called Wearthefoxhat on a maiden until it was involved in a finish on the race commentary,
The owner was made to change it straight away by the Jockey club for its next outing
Most prominent recycled name recently that I can think of is Crowded House – a decent Irish hurdler in the early 90s, came second in a Triumph, and of course its recent namesake. And a fine Kiwi music combo, of course.
Hellcatmudwrestler – I don’t know if the horse was around first, but I am sure it’s the name of a rather dodgy video series, that David Sullivan may have been involved in.
Think I’m giving away too much here…
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