David Lanzman who we all remember sold an interest in I Want Revenge to IEAH (thw two parties are now in all kinds of litigation) has a homebred half brother to IWR in at Hollywood tomorrow making his debut.
The name of the horse Don\'t Sell Me To Felons
Actually I am a little turned off by it and am surprised the Jockey Club would allow it. There are two sides to every story and IWR\'s trainer Jeff Mullins who Lanzman selected was accused of doping the horse before the Gotham before IEAH had even stepped in.
Racing doesnt need names like \"My Sleezy ExWife\". Leave these kinds of trashy slogans to Pro Wrestling.
Sorry to say this but lets hope this horse is not a runner.......
Silver,
All fair points. It just made me laugh and I always take that to be a good thing but you are right that there is another side to the story and that it is suppossed to be the sport of kings after all.
On that score, remind me not to tell you the two names I just submitted to the Jockey Club for the two yearlings I bought at the Keenland September sale :)
Cove,
Let me guess. Tigers Woody and Dontletmecatchanything.
There was a horse that raced at Penn National, I think it was in 2002, named MyEx-Wife\'sAshes.
Silver,
Damm, wish I would have thought of those earlier...where were you when we were trying to think up names...lol
Way back when I was at Ragozin\'s there was a ridgling on the Maryland circuit called One To Come.
I once had a filly by Sensitive Prince out of Rushing Stream, named her Princessandthepea. I figured if I spelled pea the other way they wouldn\'t let it go, they okayed it, and she won a small stake at Meadowlands under that name.
Alfred Vanderbilt was supposed to be the champ, somebody must know some of his.
When they named Smiling Tiger maybe somebody already knew something.......
http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/52013/smiling-tiger-gets-class-test-in-best-pal
these are tremendous
Some names I have given horses:
The Dude Abides (after The Big Lebowski)
I\'m Not Dead Yet (after Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
Ogieogilthorpe (After slap shot)
John Kimmel\'s dad Ceasar has slipped some by the Jockey club.
A couple of interesting yet funny names that I\'ve come across the last couple of years:
Ohnoitsmymotherinlaw
Subpoena the Dress
https://www.registry.jockeyclub.com/registry.cfm?page=namesrch&rand=813&init=&CFID=16742265&CFTOKEN=62469405
List of the 45,000 names in use
I never understood how Mike Pegram got Isitingood past the Jockey Club. Even Jim McKay showed disgust at this name on an ABC telecast one time.
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> John Kimmel\'s dad Ceasar has slipped some by the
> Jockey club.
Wasn\'t he the guy who had Bodacious Tatas? (that is not a reference to a manziere ala Seinfeld -- it is a filly he used to own). She won some stakes races I believe. He had other good ones. Then they brought in a special consultant to review names because nobody at the jockey club knew slang.
JT Lundy, who looted Calumet Farm and lived large while doing so, displayed a wry
sense of humor in naming some of the Calumet Breds. If you have read the
wonderful book Wild Ride, you will recall that one runner was named \"Somfas\"
(hint: the first letter stands for \"sit\" and the last letter stands for \"spin\".)
Also named by Lundy was \"So Tell Me Laddie\" the first few words of the punch
line of a particularly blue joke which was one of Lundy\'s favorites.
A couple of years ago there was the racecallers\' nightmare \"Heyhoofhearted\".
Fifteen or so years ago there was a mare running at NYRA named \"Babies A Comin\".
The dam: \"After the Lovin\".
Leave Tiger alone. As a local sportswriter said: The man changed the game of golf
one cocktail waitress at a time.
richiebee Wrote:
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> A couple of years ago there was the racecallers\'
> nightmare \"Heyhoofhearted\".
>
Hoof hearted will always be my favorite..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNpyWfUBaOg&feature=related
One of my all time favorites and goes well with the New Orleans Saints these days was Whodathorsey. He ran in Ny in the late seventies.
Frank D.
Two time turf mile BC Champ \"Da Hoss \" imo is always one of my Favorite Horses and Horse names , so talented too - what a story . next week \"Rudolph\" goes in a big one , story is he ( or she ) \'got a very shiny nose .. . Best Racing Luck and Best Wishes to all in this Holiday Season !
Ugliest name ever - on purpose.
There was horse that ran at Aqueduct years ago who was strictly a betting tool. They darkened his form by running him at wrong distances, wrong surfaces, wrong tactics, etc until the day when they cracked down and lost by a nose.
Just to make sure that those that bet on the horsey with the cute name wouldn\'t bet on him they gave him the glorious name of Bucket Mouth.
Bob
I can\'t believe how this one ever made it past TJC.
http://www.pedigreequery.com/blow+me
uh, in 1945 it was probably not what it is today.
SoCalMan2 Wrote:
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> Wasn\'t he the guy who had Bodacious Tatas? (that
> is not a reference to a manziere ala Seinfeld --
> it is a filly he used to own). She won some
> stakes races I believe.
One of the classic moments in race calling was provided by Marshall Cassidy at Belmont, when, in his stentorian tone, he called one of her victories with a pronounced emphasis on \"tatas,\" followed by a dramatic pause, and then punctuated it with an emphatic, \"in front.\"
Oh, I\'m not so sure, Boscar. The phrase (and its variants) is of uncertain origin, but it is reasonably presumed to be American, and perhaps originating among jazz musicians, as in, to blow on an instrument. So, 1945 is about right for this phrase to have been arising from the colloquial to wider usage; being on the lips, as it were, of a horseman, if not the members of the Jockey Club.
The beauty part is, it works both ways. I mean, by Menow out of Explosion???
Great stuff. Thanks, Hooper! And, I kept that as clean as possible, JB.
The fact that Pegram needed to ask probably tells us a little something about him.
Unbelievable! Imagine that race call.....\"coming to the top of the stretch, it\'s.....
PS: I also like Hoosierdaddy
per OED it dates to at least 1933 and was common enough by 1941 to be included in dictionaries of slang...
this is clearly the answer..LOL! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVifEvlIBBo
Well, could have been a little old lady passing on the name in those days. One or two drinks and APPROVED!~
4th Race
http://kdl.kyvl.org/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=drf1940s;cc=drf1940s;rgn=full%20text;idno=drf1948053102;didno=drf1948053102;view=pdf;seq=8_1;node=drf1948053102%3A8.1
Damn, I love those old charts.
Attendance over 41,000 and 2.6 million in 1948 \'real\' dollars. Must be 100 million in 2009 scrip.
Keep in mind that the betting consisted of Win Place and Show ONLY!
Impressive!
Yep, and also, bookmaking was in its heyday. Who knows what the \'real\' handle was on a day like that.