Obscenely Named TBs
 

Entertaining article from Slate on why you can't give a TB an obscene name and a lot of names that slipped through the, ahem, cracks.

http://www.slate.com/id/2174794/fr/flyout

A horse named Big Tits, creeped through the net and was allowed to race in France.

This is what somone from Weatherbys told me one day a few years back.

Thong Or Panties ran at Kentucky Downs last week.

Years ago, JT Lundy and some of the Calumet people used to try and slide a few by The Jockey Club. They started using acronyms and I remember one, and the story that went along with it -- SOMFAS

Anyone remember what it stood for?

Eric

Oh, and another which i think made it through in Europe was Mary Hinge

Nice Assay (1988)

Who can forget...

A career maiden (0-for-25 lifetime) named Oh She Hit. She raced at Charles Town earlier in the decade.

The track announcer always had a bit of a difficult time with her name.

(2002) BAGAPOOH

BAG.-- MERTZIE POOH

Bagapooh is also a well known line of compost.

http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~virusin...st/compost.htm

Do you think one could sneak through Blue Mice Elf? :)

Big Tits is short for Bodacious Tatas

Dixie Normas...Pegram horse. They made him change her name

We had a horse named Soft Hit running at River this past summer. Each time i got to her in the field, i would slow down and pronounce each word of the name slowly, because if i said it fast........you get the picture.

that's subtle.

i guess it got through because no one in europe understands english.

For the record, they're two different horses.

http://www.pedigreequery.com/bodacious+tatas


BIG TITS (FR) 7-y-o (1 Jan 2000) b m
Trainer: E Lellouche Owner: S Lellouche
Breeder: Elie & Sylvain Lellouche
Lost World(IRE) (7.9f) - Abigaila(FR) (River River (FR )(12.0f))

Lifetime Flat Turf 6 0 0 0 £0 £0
Lifetime All Weather 0 0 0 0 £0 £0
Lifetime Hurdle 0 0 0 0 £0 £0
Lifetime Chase 0 0 0 0 £0 £0
Lifetime Stakes 0 0 0 0 £0 £0
Lifetime All 6 0 0 0 £0 £0
— — 07Nov03 Msn 13H 3y,6K 8-8 8/14 10L, Karly Baby 8-5 — — —
— — 10Oct03 Sai 12Sft 3y,5K 9-1 0/17 10L, Action Girl 9-5 — — —
— — 30Sep03 Sai 15Gd 3y,6K 9-1 10/15 22L, Marche Clair 8-11 b — — —
— — 12Aug03 Dea 10GS 3y,5K 8-10 11/12 16L, Anadiyla 8-10 b — — —
— — 27Jul03 Msn 11VSft 3y,7K 8-8 6/7 13½L, I Will Survive 8-3 — — —
— — 24Jun03 Lon 11Gd 3y,5K 9-0 0/12 12L, Sea Blue 9-0 — — —

Bodacious Tatas was a pretty good horse for Ceasar Kimmel and trained by John Kimmel. Ceasar also had a horse once named Peony's Envoy.

Also didn't Pegram own Isitingood

For An Occasion is a name that also needs careful, slow enunciation :)

Hall Lass and One Strike No Balls were two of my favorites. Luke had a hilarious call at Churchill when Hall Lass raced one time. He said it as many times as possible and it was very obvious he did it on purpose.

And then it died. The curse of the changed name!

well oil beef hooked

say it fast, you should get it....i saw it on the back of a kids t-shirt at school. no one got it, til i saw it. cracked me up.

In all seriousness. I can't wait to see the names they come up with for Rock Hard Ten's babies...