there are just some names that make you smile

[46zilzal]

LOW DOWN DIRTY DOG (one word) in the nightcap at Fort Erie. A good laugh and reminds me a bit of the fun that MY-NAME-IS-SUE used to create with old Todd Cread at Bay Meadows.

[kingfin66]

Oh yes, I love horse names. There has been a horse running at Emerald Downs by the name of Spontaneous Wood. Word is that the owners' first choice of name did not make it past the horse racing sensors. The preferred name was Morning Wood.

[46zilzal]

local announcer here at one point would not call Hoof Hearted. Called it Hoof Hart Ted.

[fergie]

Back in the early 90's my wife bet a horse which appeared in pp's to have no chance. The horse was Flaming drawers--it won, and paid 40 some odd dollars. She had gotten a laugh out of the name and then noticed that his pop was Drop your drawers who still had the track record at the distance. Then there was one called Unevano (you never know) which I didn't figure out until I heard the track announcer call its name. Sometimes they get away with names that are suggestive, i.e, Pound the Mound. The names can be a small measore of humor in a sport that requires most winners to require themselves to demonstrate a lot of careful consideration to come close to profitability.
Fergie:)

[highnote]

Oh yes, I love horse names. There has been a horse running at Emerald Downs by the name of Spontaneous Wood. Word is that the owners' first choice of name did not make it past the horse racing sensors. The preferred name was Morning Wood.

There is already a horse running name "Morning Wood".

Of course, if you want to refer to erectile dysfunction, it be might called "Mourning Wood". :D :eek:

[dutzman]

know a guy who works at the jockey club and sees some crazy names come through that don' make it past the first level. NoMufftoTuff was a memorable one!

[Stevie Belmont]

Daddy Dick

[Cesario!]

http://www.pedigreequery.com/butterface

[point given]

Daddy Dick

Isitingood !

[turfeyejoe]

The one that caught my eye a couple years ago .. and several Jewish friends found offensive ... was a stakes-caliber foreign import who ran in Southern California named Nazirali. Even more outrageous, I was flipping through an old Racing Manual from the early 1940's and there was a big ad for Swastika Farm. Unbelievable!

[Free Bird]

Many years ago in California there was a horse named Chingadero. That was a big inside joke among those who spoke Spanish. It was later changed and there is now no record of Chingadero.

[jotb]

Hello all:

Tomorrow I have to enter a horse by the name of COCKY STOCKY.

Best regards all,
Joe

[toetoe]

Turfey,

Was that a deliberate version of Nazi Rally? If so, I'd be offended, too.

[falconridge]

Turfey,

Was that a deliberate version of Nazi Rally? If so, I'd be offended, too.I remember that Irish-bred son of Kahyasi and Naziriya. Stateside, he won the Gr II San Luis Obispo Handicap after having scored in a listed stakes in France early in his career.

If the name Nazirali were meant to suggest anything having to do with National Socialism, it would indeed be offensive. More likely, though, the referent is either a legendary Indian cricketer or the current Bishop of Rochester (United Kingdom). Syed Nazir-ali (whose name may also be rendered "Nazir Ali" or "Nazirali") was, as every schoolboy knows, the "attacking right handed batsman ... fast-medium bowler and ... good fielder" who played in India's first test match in 1932, and whose "most memorable feat was perhaps the 52, with five fours and three sixes, that he scored against Yorkshire out of India's 66 allout." (Source: http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/598/598.html).

On the other hand, the now 9-year-old Aga Khan stallion may have been named for the Right Reverend Michael Nazir-ali (born in Pakistan in 1949), Bishop of Rochester in southern England. A 2002 article in BBC News described Nazir-ali as "one of the leading candidates" to become the first non-white Archbishop of Canterbury and "the only UK bishop in a 1997 poll to be able to name all five Spice Girls." (Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2046892.stm).

I don't know; it's a close call. Or, as the Commonwealth racecallers are wont to describe the kind of finish that Vic Stauffer dubs "a whacker," ... "there's nothing in it."

[OTM Al]

What people have forgotten is that the swastika is a symbol that has been around for thousands of years and can be found in all parts of the world. It was most commonly used as a symbol of good luck (in fact there are some in my grandmother's yearbook from 1930). It was only when the swastika became associated with the Nazis that it came to be regarded as a symbol of evil, so it makes perfect sense that there was a Swastika Farm...just probably meant something like Good Luck Farm at the time.

My new favorite racing name is a person rather than a horse. Just got an email from Harry Furlong in the Marketing Dept. at BRIS. Guess he was destined to work in the racing industry.....

[46zilzal]

My new favorite racing name is a person rather than a horse. Just got an email from Harry Furlong in the Marketing Dept. at BRIS. Guess he was destined to work in the racing industry..... a recently retired rider at Hastings named LOSEth and a trainer named there is named UNWIN. Swear!

[PaceAdvantage]

And then there's NYRA in-house handicapper Jason BLEWITT. Great last name for a handicapper, don't you think?

I can hear DeNiro now.....

[JackS]

Dirty Mo Posse is currently racing at Calder. I think they got away with this one.

[ratpack]

In So Cal we all remember "BODACIOUS TA TA'S"