Horses With The Same Name

[stevecaution]

There were two

Camelots

as well, both GB suffix according to ATR’s website. Gerard Butler trained the one that didn’t win the Derby.

I have noticed two

Ol’ Man Rivers

on the same website, both IRE suffix and Henry Daly trained the one that isn’t this year’s Derby winner.

The trend is there for all to see!

Thanks for the good crack. Time for me to move on. Be lucky.

[IanDavies]

We have had a Baronet since the dual
cambridgeshire winner of old.

Still, Whogivesadonald? Now there was a horse with a real name.

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[stevecaution]

Whogivesadonald?

I recall that one in the late 80’s, the name was short for "Who gives a Donald Duck", which every Cockney Rhyming slang student knows means luck.

Who gives a luck? Err, that doesn’t make much sense. Maybe I’ve got it wrong and made a right "Rodney Marsh" of it all

Thanks for the good crack. Time for me to move on. Be lucky.

[quadrilla]

"The mice do play !"

Here’s a runner today that has 3 different names.

The Cat’s Away
The Cat´s Away
The Cat’s Away (IRE)

Backing two runners is the relentless pursuit of value. Backing each way is a shortcut to the poor house. Only 7% make a long term profit.

[Meerkat]

Just remembered another but surely made up Norfolk ‘N’ Chance

On a similar note, colourful owner Hugh O’Donnell from Airdrie way managed to get Finmental and Hesfinmentaltoo past the naming department.

The less rude Crazee Mental also owned by him managed to finish a short head second at 50/1 in the 1997 Queen Mary less than a week after winning a Hamilton maiden. Happy days!!

As for the two Zimbabwe’s mentioned up thread, I’m sure one of them, not sure which, got loose from it’s stable and disappeared. No trace of the poor beast was ever found.

[The Young Fella]

Not quite true regarding former Triumph Hurdle fav Zimbabwe sadly, Meerkat. His body was eventually found in a ditch on the MOD’s land.

[Burroughhill]

I remember Paddy Mullins trained "Hungry Hur."Not sure how that slipped past the censors. And "The Kew Tour," of course

I hardly dare own up to this, but someone’s going to have to explain the joke to me….

[Drone]

Here’s one for you ageing juveniles who’re tickled by risque names – not me of course

Selosra

If memory serves ran a few times in the ’70s before Weatherby’s twigged and it had to be re-named, to what I don’t recall

Regarding Big Buck’s errant apostrophe:

Big Buck’s’ (or Buck’s’s) second World Hurdle

would have had grammarians self-immolating, so I guess racing hacks studiously avoided macerating the possesive case and instead used something like

The second World Hurdle that Big Buck’s won

[stevecaution]

I remember Paddy Mullins trained "Hungry Hur."Not sure how that slipped past the censors. And "The Kew Tour," of course

I hardly dare own up to this, but someone’s going to have to explain the joke to me….

I am assuming it’s pronounced Hungry Whoer and Cute Whoer.

Of course Whoer’s are fans of the TV series Doctor Who, much like fans of Star Trek are Trekkies.

Not to be confused with Dirty Whoers or Strumpet Whoers, or indeed hungry and cute ones.

Hope that clears it up Burroughhill.

Thanks for the good crack. Time for me to move on. Be lucky.

[Burroughhill]

Hmmmmmm thanks. The Hur thing still sounds a bit dubious to me. I’m still wearing a slightly puzzled frown.

[Nathan Hughes]

Mary Hinge (SAF)

Swap the M with the H and you get a big bush.

Gaelic Warrior Gold Cup Winner 2026

[Burroughhill]

I like that one.
I work in M and S and every morning we receive about 150 customer orders. We have to read the names out and tick them off a list. It took a very long time for us to compose ourselves after reading out the name SANDY BUSH.

[befair]

Hmmmmmm thanks. The Hur thing still sounds a bit dubious to me. I’m still wearing a slightly puzzled frown.

"Hungry Whore" is a phrase used occasionally in Ireland to describe a person who is greedy and mean

[stevecaution]

I saw quite a few spelling errors over my years behind the betting shop counter.

A horse called

Sophism

was written as So Pish,

Mustahil

became Mustshit by the time it was on the betting slip, perhaps the guy had something else on his mind, and a cuddy by the name of

Wagon Load

was writ large on the ticket as Wogan’s Load, which might have been a relief for Terry.

Thanks for the good crack. Time for me to move on. Be lucky.

[Burroughhill]

It annoyed me the other day to hear

Schottische

pronounced

Scottish is She

by one of the ATR presenters…..can’t remember who.

[homersimpson]

Pheckless was another favourite of mine

[stevecaution]

Pheckless was another favourite of mine

A couple of cracking names from the late 80’s, early 90’s were Pish Kesh and Fabius Cunctator

Pish Kesh means a gift destined for a person of high status, while Fabius Cunctator was a Roman military commander, the name shortened from Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus (Nickname Cunctator)

I think the first four names were also Juventus’s back four during the 1970’s

Fabius Cunctator was last seen tailed off at Hamilton, running off a mark of 44

Thanks for the good crack. Time for me to move on. Be lucky.

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