Spinelessjellyfish was named as a joking reference to Jenine Sahadi’s childhood nickname/insult for her brother.
He was a great horse too he raced until he was eight, was a multiple graded stakes placed winner of a bit under $900,000.
He was trained by Jenine Sahadi throughout his career, and then retired to stud.
As a teenager I got my first Thoroughbred. Her registered name was Pickerel Smile. Now that was bad enough on its own, as it roughly translated in my head to Fish Face, but wait, it gets worse, much worse…
The name is actually a literary reference, and I had read the poem from which it comes, in my English class. This was only a few weeks before I found this mare, so I knew immediately that I was buying a horse named for a poem titled - For My Student Emily, Killed by a Horse!
Yikes!
In the poem the author (I thought it was Whitman, but I can’t find any reference for it) is remembering a particularly promising student, who died as a result of some sort of riding accident.
I guess it is fortunate, that my name is not Emily.
I am surprised that no one referenced this… or if you did I missed it but still good.
I’ll bet every TB in the world today is a descendant of Pot8os, most through Waxy. It’s possible that he is where the Y chromosome mutated in TBs. It’s either him or Waxy or Whalebone (grandfather, son, and grandson.
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