Anyone here from Keeneland? This was on the back of the overnight. What does it mean?
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If link doesn’t work it says "Duck Alert Duck Alert and lists many trainers’ names afterward.
lol Indian Charlie is at it again!
C’mon you can’t keep this to yourself let the rest of us in on this plz.
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This was on the back of the overnight. What does it mean? … If link doesn’t work it says "Duck Alert Duck Alert and lists many trainers’ names afterward.[/QUOTE]
In horse racing when a trainer wins his first race of the meet it’s called “getting off the duck.” If you’ll note the trainers cited all have yet to win a race at the Keeneland Fall Meet.
Examples at the Meet: George Arnold II (“Rusty”) is 0-22 at the meet; Jonathan Sheppard is 0-13; Wayne Lukas is 0-17; etc
If a trainer doesn’t win at a meet he “goes hungry”. Sometimes with the smaller trainers, that’s meant literally. Years ago at Saratoga if a trainer didn’t win a race during the meet, officials would turn a blind eye when he climbed into the infield at night and grabbed himself a duck from the lake so that he could have one good meal before shipping out.
Hence the racehorse who was named Duckornodinner.
Thank you, I had never heard that expression before but it does make sense.
Little bit more pressure for Rusty Arnold to keep his “streak alive” of winning a race every year at the meet, except one where he had no runners, since 1986! Best of luck to him! Total class act!
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Little bit more pressure for Rusty Arnold to keep his “streak alive” of winning a race every year at the meet, except one where he had no runners, since 1986! Best of luck to him! Total class act![/QUOTE]
It looks like he has one horse entered Thursday (R9), three on Friday (R4, R6, R7), and on Saturday/closing day two entered (R4, R8). It’s quite the racing streak … He’s actually ranked as the 3rd all-time winner at Keeneland with 248 wins at the start of the meet.
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Hence the racehorse who was named Duckornodinner.[/QUOTE]
…I had NO IDEA why Tice was originally named that. It was changed before he raced but obviously it’s visible on his papers. I thought it was such a weird name to have chosen, even if they changed their minds. (Next mystery: why they changed it to “Tice”…) It also would make one wonder about the only close matches currently in the system, two horses, 1990 IRE and 1998, named “Duck For Dinner.” Though the 1995 horse Duck Dinner makes sense (by State Dinner out of Jolly Duckling) or the previous name-holder, a 1985 by Quack.
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…I had NO IDEA why Tice was originally named that. It was changed before he raced but obviously it’s visible on his papers. I thought it was such a weird name to have chosen, even if they changed their minds. (Next mystery: why they changed it to “Tice”…)[/QUOTE]
Isn’t Tice named for his breeder Mike Pegram’s good friend and huge horse racing fan Mike Tice? He’s a former Chicago Bears offensive coordinator and also ex-Seattle Seahawks tight end.
Tice is a frequent visitor to Emerald Downs and was honorary steward for the Emerald Express stakes race July 28 at the Auburn track.
Tice is a co-owner of 2-year-old Midnight Hawk. Other owners of the California-based horse are Joel Quenneville, coach of the NHL champion Chicago Blackhawks; Mike Kitchen, Blackhawks assistant coach; and prominent horseman Mike Pegram, a former Mount Vernon resident.
Tice hit a pick-6 this summer at Del Mar paying over $100k …
Yes, that is why he was named Tice, after Mike
It did make for an easy barn name–I never even asked if harvestmoon called him anything else! (Given where she got him from they probably should have stuck with Duckornodinner. And anything dinner-related would be appropriate…you’d think he never gets fed the way he carries on at dinner time, or two hours before dinner time, or if he just happens to see you leave the house…) But I have never seen the “Duck Alert” thing so I had no idea what that name could have meant.
And I never pay attention to professional team sports so the name meant nothing.
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…I had NO IDEA why Tice was originally named that. It was changed before he raced but obviously it’s visible on his papers. I thought it was such a weird name to have chosen, even if they changed their minds. (Next mystery: why they changed it to “Tice”…) It also would make one wonder about the only close matches currently in the system, two horses, 1990 IRE and 1998, named “Duck For Dinner.” Though the 1995 horse Duck Dinner makes sense (by State Dinner out of Jolly Duckling) or the previous name-holder, a 1985 by Quack.[/QUOTE]
The funny thing about giving such a well-bred horse that name (Duckornodinner) is that you’d think the owners would have given it to a horse with little potential. Because it sounds to me like they didn’t expect him to win–which is perhaps why they ended up changing it?
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The funny thing about giving such a well-bred horse that name (Duckornodinner) is that you’d think the owners would have given it to a horse with little potential. Because it sounds to me like they didn’t expect him to win–which is perhaps why they ended up changing it?[/QUOTE]
Given how well-bred he is, I wondered that they didn’t try to come up with something a little more prestigious-sounding than either option, though maybe they were hoping for the whole bad-name/good-horse thing (and he wasn’t BAD, he just has a bad ankle.)
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Given how well-bred he is, I wondered that they didn’t try to come up with something a little more prestigious-sounding than either option, though maybe they were hoping for the whole bad-name/good-horse thing (and he wasn’t BAD, he just has a bad ankle.)[/QUOTE]
Speaking of names, one day I will stop reading your as “dance on rice”. Promise.
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