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Expand your horizons Ian!
I agree some of the arabic names are too similar to each other for comfort but I think quite alot of ‘english’ names are dull and nonsensical too. (Sadler’s Wells ex Ivory Bride? Ivory Wells. Yawn.)
Why stick to popular global culture?  As I said before, there is a limited supply of names and if someone can come up with something a bit different that has personal resonance then good for them!  Some of the classical Greek and Roman names won’t have recognition in the ‘popular global culture’, yet they make cracking names for racehorses once you know the stories behind them.
Interestingly enough, many Japanese racehorses have names that include English words, whether their breeding includes English words or not, as do Turkish, Scandinavian and Italian racehorses, and sometimes these English words are much more obscure than you would expect. ÂÂÂ
BTW, you still haven’t mentioned how you feel about Irish Gaelic names for horses trained in Britain.  Or did you put that in a belated edit to a post that I have missed?
Ian – unlike you if I had a horse racing in Japan I wouldn’t give it a Japanese name. Wherever my horses raced, I’d give them names of my choice, mainly English perhaps, but maybe even classical ones. Telemachus is a good Classical name for a horse, it’s just a shame these uneducated pundits and commentators can’t pronounce the name properly!!!:biggrin:
"tenayestelign" ian – i reckon you’re really, really wrong on this one!
maybe some people who own racehorses do so for reasons other than to provide nags for semi-illiterate uk-based betting shop punters to bet on.
we are absolutely awful as a nation when it comes to foreign languages, primarily due to the fact that we are lazy and arrogant on this issue and because, fortunately, almost every thom, dieter and enrico we happen to encounter tends to speak at least a spattering of understandable english (and often a lot more).
if someone is prepared to spend lots of money owning a thoroughbred racehorse, i think they are perfectly entitled to call it a name of their own choice, within reason, in a language of their own choice.
Good old "Mentalasanythin" somehow can’t see a Dubai Mentalasanythin :biggrin: …a personal fav of mine is Golden Beau..plus the fact it was a fav old horse of mine.
Scotts View (Selkirk – Milly of the Valley)
Scotts View is of course a beauty spot overlooking a valley near Selkirk. very cleverly named!
Kifill, b g Fill My Hopes – Kitkelly
(apparently it means ‘horse’ in Breton)
…sorry…
I was amused to read once that Magniers and their ilk had so many horses that they used to open dictionaries at random — hence, Beethoven, Prokofiev, Ned Kelly etc.
re above..of course, I meant reference books. Shame, they couldn’t be bothered to put a bit more thought into.
I used to assume that Saafend was an ex-Hamdan horse until I spoke the name out loud.
Some names are just unfortunate. An example would be the horse who ran at Auteuil the other week named Herpes.
Hello I am new to the site. I think that the gunner b bred horses have some of the better names relating to their sire.  <br>Completely unrelated but I saw a while ago someone interested in what happened to the chaser Amlah. I am the current keeper of him. So if you would like more info on him let me know. <br>Del
I have only just joined this Forum, so please excuse the long gap since the last reply on this topic.
Yes, it seems such a shame that the names of so many horses seem to bear no relation to their sire or dam. Of course, it is an owner’s prerogative to name a horse whatever he or she likes (well, within reason
), but there are some that stand out in my mind as being well named, my favourite of which is probably the following horse, who was trained by Michael Bolton (if my memory serves me correctly) and was a winner on the flat at Lingfield over 2 miles in the early 1970’s :SHIVER MY TIMBERS (Blast – Shireoaks)
Now that is what I call a neat name.
If you think horse racing is bad for repetitive names such as Dubai and Bollin etc then think about greyhound racing with the endless Droopys,Roxholmes,Westmeads and Spenwoods etc.
Ive always had a huge problem when it came to coming up with names for my characters, but especially my MC. What method do you use when it comes to naming your MC?
Well, if the 23 year-old was a point-to-pointer…
I believe it’s not a wholly original name, judging by the number of people on other internet fora using it, but I do smile whenever I see the name of Ykikamoocow in the entries.
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