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BHA rules on naming horses.
Very interesting. I wish there was a rule about using correct grammar and spelling, but that’s just me.
Then we wouldn’t have had Big Buck’s or Your a Gassman
Very interesting. I wish there was a rule about using correct grammar and spelling, but that’s just me.
Then we wouldn’t have had Big Buck’s or Your a GassmanI’m surprised they allowed the name Number Eleven, it used to be very confusing with betting shows referring to the horse as "Number Eight, Number Eleven"
Thanks for the good crack. Time for me to move on. Be lucky.
Very interesting. I wish there was a rule about using correct grammar and spelling, but that’s just me.
Then we wouldn’t have had Big Buck’s or Your a GassmanI’m surprised they allowed the name Number Eleven, it used to be very confusing with betting shows referring to the horse as "Number Eight, Number Eleven"
Especially if the horse is Eleven to Eight in the betting.
Gaelic Warrior Gold Cup Winner 2026
Or horses called something along the lines of Bringing Up the Rear so you get: "Coming up along the rail, Bringing Up The Rear" and so on…..
I remember Paddy Mullins trained "Hungry Hur."Not sure how that slipped past the censors. And "The Kew Tour," of course
During a recent bout of data crunching I came across a couple of formbook anomalies…
Zimbabwe
Ran 15/11/09 at Market Rasen
Ran 15/11/09 at FontwellPlum Pudding
Ran 13/04/09 at Chepstow in a chase
Ran 13/04/09 at Warwick in a flat conditions raceTrainers, jockeys, odds, finishing positions are all listed, both in my own database and the RP online database.
Anyone know if its actually 4 different horses?
Plum Pudding (IRE) Richard Hannon Snr. was a Newmarket specialist a real character,he won 7 of his 8 career wins there including the Bunbury Cup.
Sadly he died suddenly as a 7 year old of an internal haemorrhage, so now there is just the one Plum Pudding (FR) in training.
http://www.racingpost.com/horses/horse_ … horse_formThings turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...Remember a ‘Noble Locks’ in training a while ago which must have got past the BHA scrutiny.
Was ‘Hoof Hearted’ a made up name
Also I heard there was going to be a ‘Skollobs God’ (read backwards) that had evaded the BHA scrutiny but never saw this run anywhere.
Don’t think you’d get away with ‘Doctor Fook’ though
Not long after I started working in a betting office the old boys used to try to wind me up with some of the horse names Homer mentioned, as well as some other home-brewed variations.
There was the usual fare, such as Lollipop- he’s sure to take some licking and more controversial ones, such as Jesus- he’s nailed on in the Easter Stakes.
I think my favourite was one my mate’s father tried to pass off as a genuine horse and it was supposed to have been a chaser called Cobbler’s Willy. Inevitably, I ended up asking him why they gave the horse that name, and was a bit taken aback when he replied:-
"Because it was always well beaten coming over the last"
Thanks for the good crack. Time for me to move on. Be lucky.
At the only racecourse in Norway we had a hurdler/steepler called Great Gatsby(GB). Then someone imported a Derby hopeful from America. Great Gatsby(USA).
After two seasons we two steeplers called Great Gatsby, in a three horse fieldBack in 2007 Nicky Henderson had an Irish bred horse with the Norwegian name of some part of the male atonomy
Somewhat surprisingly there are two horses called Vercingetorix as well. You would have thought that was an unusual enough name to guarantee singularity but there’s a SAF and an IRE version.
The SAF one recently beat one time Derby hopeful True Story at Meydan. The other fellow is plying his trade over the sticks for Gordon Elliott.
Apparently the original Vercingetorix was a Gallic chieftain and he lost to Julius Caesar, but I don’t know if it was at Cheltenham.
Finally, there was a robot of the same name on Robot Wars but I don’t think it was much cop.
That one did get me the other week when running in Ireland.
I thought my mind was playing tricks on me as I remember Vercingetorix running in Meydan last year.
I had to look at the horse’s profile and there it was, it wasn’t the same horse (surprisingly
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17th July 2011
Free World (FR) contested a conditions chase at Tipperary
Free World (IRE) contested a handicap chase at StratfordThen we wouldn’t have had Big Buck’s
That bothered me for a while but I was able to justify it by assuming he was named after something that belonged to a portly fellow (or a rubenesque lady) called Buck. Brought me no end of peace.
How about
Accipiter
? Two quietly notable horses within 15 years under this name.
Accipiter I
(1999-2005) Gelding trained by Toby Balding (and later Jonathan Geake), won the G1 Sefton Novices’ Hurdle in 2004. Fatally injured in the 2005 Long Walk Hurdle.
Accipiter
(2012-) Daughter of Showcasing trained by Chris Wall, won the Listed Roseberry Stakes in 2014.
http://www.racingpost.com/horses/result … s=ANALYSIS
30/06/96 – HEMSBY CONDITIONS STAKES (CLASS C) Yarmouth
5th – Averti (Ire) Willie Muir / Michael Roberts
6th – Averti (USA) Henry Cecil / Pat Eddery
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