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I don’t know about you all, but I get fed up with seeing countless runners with names that can’t even be pronounced let alone being remembered for reference!
What happened to the proper, conventional naming of horses?
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I love arab names, some of them are very effective and gives the horse some menace.
They might be ‘nice’ to look at, but they are not very memorable in the head. Plus many of them are very phonetically similar. I have no point of reference to even remember some of their names, as I don’t speak in arab tongue. The name might as well be gibberish to me.
You or I might not find the names memorable RD, I expect the meaning of each name is memorable for Shiekh Mo and co.
Don’t know how our Gaelic speaking freinds would feel if they were encouraged to stick to English names. What was that 1000 Guineas winner I backed a few years ago? Began with "F" I think.
On the whole different languages are good, they’re not all the same. And not so many runners with famous names of yester-year, which is in my opinion, the real xxxx as far as naming is concerned.
Value Is EverythingNames of race horses should be easy to pronounce and to remember. The whole point is to rate the horses vis a vis each other.Unpronounceable and especially unrememberable names defeat the whole point of names for racing purposes.
Arab Khalid Abdullah doesn’t have Arabic names for his horse but they do have beautiful names, my all time favourite the Aurally and Orally beautiful Reams of Verse.
If its the Prince himself who names his horses he is a Connoiseur of Classy Names and even the 1 word names are classy like Digression and Warning but really the list is endless.
Reams of Verse is a wonderful name for a racehorse. Laajooj and Haafhd are meaningless to the average punter.
What about horses with the same name?
Was watching last week and there was an Aquilifer…..
There is also another Denman…….Surely horses with Arab names have some arab, rather than just strait TB breeding? Might be wrong.
I don’t see it as an annoyance but what does bug me slightly is horses with Arabian names that aren’t actually Arab related.
I haven’t got any examples but I’d wager there are some horses with Arab names just because it, in theory, makes them sound a little more classy than they actually are!some straight reversals might sound Arabic even where something else is in play – Llab Nala for example.
would the Darley Arabian or the Godolphin Arabian count as "Arab-related" ?
isn’t there already a huge concession in using the English alphabet over the Arabic one?
and isn’t it mainly about phonetics rather than meanings?
certainy it is in HK and Japan, where the English version of the name as often as not is an attempt to recreate the sound of the primary Chinese / Japanese name, with any meaning that the English words might seem to have being a bonus and rarely a translation.Finsceal Beo!!!!!!!
That’s the one Slewman!
What does it mean?
Think it means a Legend in life or living legend or something along those lines,the same owner(Micheal Ryan) always has his horses As Gaeilge the likes of Al Eile,Penthesilea Eile,i’d say it could be frustrating for Commentators from outside Ireland trying to pronounce them!
But sure hey that’s probably half the reason he does it
I don’t know about you all, but I get fed up with seeing countless runners with names that can’t even be pronounced let alone being remembered for reference!
What happened to the proper, conventional naming of horses?They probably can be pronounced, and remembered, by their owners. Arab owners.
I guess its a case of he who pays the piper calls the tune. I think it is far better to have horses with names that I struggle with , be it arabic or gaelic, than not to have them at all. Imagine how much poorer the sport would be then.
If it makes it a little more effort for the rest of us, then so be it as far as I am concerned. If I was an owner then I would want to be able to call my animals something which appealed to me, not what suited everyone else (obviously not meaning that I should be allowed to call them something offensive or hurtful, for example)
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