Just caught a pace race with a filly by the name of
Shesells Seashells
She was well placed for at least most of the race. I don’t know how the announcer managed to keep her name straight. I can barely say it once, slowly…
:lol:
Oh, at Ocean Downs…
Is a replay available somewhere? :lol:
That I don’t know. I caught it on TVG 
(I think it was either 9 or 10 on the Ocean Downs card).
Race caller did a way more fantastic job than I would have… I still can’t get that mouthful out properly more than once. By the time I’d have said it twice, they would have crossed the wire.
Are they allowed to ever shorten, perhaps, to Seashells if a name is too cumbersome?
No, the announcer cannot shorten the name but may butcher it beyond recognition. Have known a few with weird names or unpronounceable ones and some with names designed to mess with announcers.
Two horses in Alberta, one of each breed, Fog Ducking and Fog Ducker and I know of 4 announcers that messed up on both horses, mixing up the first letters of each half of the name. Knew a horse called Norfolk And Way…say that one a couple of times over and see what comes out of your mouth. Another eons ago, Invincible Kash ALWAYS got called Invisible Kash, not a name unfitting for a race horse. This has been going on for years and years
How do those names make it past the breed registries? :lol:
sometimes things get through, regardless how carefully screened. I don’t know what the TB people look for but they let Fog Ducker through. Standardbred registry looks for trademark infringement, people names without the proper permission forms sent through, names on the do not use list, stolen farm names, obscenities, misuse of legends names, and a few other small things. I actually see no problem with Invincible Kash at all… can’t account for people misreading/mispronouncing. USTA should have paid more attention to Norfolk and Way but it is a street sign and nothing more and Fog Ducking was referencing ancestors names. They do not sit there an repeat things endlessly to get to a misstep in pronouncing.
Same way Wrecked 'Em did. If you don’t say it aloud, it doesn’t occur to you.
Our latest claim’s name is Piston Broke. 
No!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
http://www.equibase.com/profiles/Results.cfm?type=Horse&refno=741587®istry=T
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Our latest claim’s name is Piston Broke. :)[/QUOTE]
I knew a Pistnbroke a long time ago. Cant believe this got by again
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No!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
http://www.equibase.com/profiles/Results.cfm?type=Horse&refno=741587®istry=T[/QUOTE]
Didn’t believe me, didn’t you. Hadda go look up that nickel pickle. Fog Duckin was a much better horse, he won a couple of stakes races.
There is a funny conversation from a UK show with names that didn’t make it past the registry office.
One was Oil Beef Hooked. Irish, ya know.
https://youtu.be/3ELTfS_wM74 Here it is - Graham Norton show. Hope this is OK for the forum.
If ever one of these horses with a really goofy name turned out to be a really great horse, would they have the option to rename it? I mean, can you imagine Wrecked 'em going down in history beside, Citation, Man O’War , Secretariat, etc?
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Who could forget HoofHearted…
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oh please. I’m too old to wet my pants from laughing so hard. Somebody at the jockey club must have been asleep when the registration papers came through.
How about some cute name:
One Acme Trotter Kit
Ugotta Flat Tar (by Tar Heel)
My Horses Girl (by My Horse)
Most of these though you can at least say with just a bit of clear enunciation.
The Shesells Seashells still boggles me
I’ve always liked the hidden naughty names.
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If ever one of these horses with a really goofy name turned out to be a really great horse, would they have the option to rename it? I mean, can you imagine Wrecked 'em going down in history beside, Citation, Man O’War , Secretariat, etc?[/QUOTE]
What about Deweycheatumandhowe? Or Albatross…who names a horse after a rather large and ungainly bird? Both odd names and both very famous.
Maybe jockey club is different but once a Standardbred has made a start, that name cannot be changed
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If ever one of these horses with a really goofy name turned out to be a really great horse, would they have the option to rename it? I mean, can you imagine Wrecked 'em going down in history beside, Citation, Man O’War , Secretariat, etc?[/QUOTE]
And while it’s not a terrible name, consider the unfortunately misspelled American Pharoah. Even the first Triple Crown winner in decades doesn’t get to change his name, even just to switch two letters.
