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Family Business won yesterday at Leicester and shares his name with the horse that landed the infamous Feast of St Raymond Novices’ Chase at Southwell on 23 January 2002.
It was the race where everything fell, was remouted, fell again and after ten-and-a-half minutes for 3m, AP McCoy eventually finished alone on Family Business. No remounts and a void race nowadays of course!
Full shenanigans can be seen here:
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A horse named The Prince ran at Kempton last night. Geoff Wragg used to train a horse with that name, cleverly named as he was sired by Machiavellian.
Pawnbroker i think was a hurdler in 60s then David Elsworth had a horse of the same name on level. I could be way off with first named but vague childhood memories of having horses names on playing cards, he was one of them 52 horses
↑ Pawnbroker #1 may well have hurdled during the 1960s but the horse is perhaps better known for his chasing exploits, having won the Mackeson in 1966 for Arthur Stephenson.
Others will doubtless know more about him.
Why have I only just noticed this excellent thread??!!
Dual Cambridgeshire winner Baronet is an offensive example, ditto Dick Hern’s brilliant two-year-old Gorytus.
Extreme, I know, but I believe ALL racehorse names should be unique, although Baronet II, III, IV etc would be acceptable as was once traditionally the case.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"As mentioned upthread, the list of potential names is practically infinite and there’s never an excuse for lack of creativity.
That said, some of the original names are quite cool so an owner’s wish to duplicate might be understood (but not forgiven).
What passeth all understanding for me is an owner who saddles their horse with a name which is essentially an insult to the animal. Discovering that 4 owners over the years have called their horse Pestilence sent me deep into WTF territory.
For the record there have also been 16 Wars and 7 Famines, but thankfully only one Death.
100% agree.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Seasider, I think you have just highlighted a great untapped source of unique names. I look forward to seeing Infestation, Ebola and Cystitis lining up on a racecourse in the near future!
Sadly Herpes has been used already.
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