CD renames La Troienne (And now renames the Louisville La Troienne!)

[philcski]

...to the Eight Belles. Good/bad/indifferent?

http://news.bloodhorse.com/article/49067.htm

[dagulla]

Originally Posted by philcski

...to the Eight Belles. Good/bad/indifferent?

http://news.bloodhorse.com/article/49067.htm

Decent ?

[ateamstupid]

If you really want to pay tribute to Eight Belles, try not making your track a pived highway for every big day. Would make a lot more difference than naming a relatively irrelevant stakes race after a relatively irrelevant horse.

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

If you really want to pay tribute to Eight Belles, try not making your track a pived highway for every big day. Would make a lot more difference than naming a relatively irrelevant stakes race after a relatively irrelevant horse.

Is that slang for Piven?

[ateamstupid]

Originally Posted by Coach Pants

Is that slang for Piven?

Good catch. Paved.

[hoovesupsideyourhead]

too bad she would have won the oaks by a mile..and maybee not been hurt..i say no to naming a race after a accident..**** name a race after rags to riches..she did win something..

[Riot]

A shame they took La Troienne's name off a race, thus out of the public eye.

They should have thought of something else if they wanted to honor Eight Belles.

[Kasept]

There is little more annoying to me than the renaming of stakes races.

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by Kasept

There is little more annoying to me than the renaming of stakes races.

Interesting. It's 43,568th on my list.

[slotdirt]

As useful as the MJC changing the Sir Barton to the Barbaro.

[smuthg]

Originally Posted by slotdirt

As useful as the MJC changing the Sir Barton to the Barbaro.

I have no problem with one "Eight Belles" but hopefully, other tracks won't start renaming stakes after her also, as with Barbaro.

[Antitrust32]

They should rename the Jim Dandy to the Bernardini

[Echo Farm]

Originally Posted by philcski

...to the Eight Belles. Good/bad/indifferent?

http://news.bloodhorse.com/article/49067.htm

Bad, in my opinion. La Troienne is now a lesser mare because Eight Belles had an unfortunate breakdown in May?
I lived through the renaming of anything that didn't walk after JFK took his fateful ride in 1963, only to have the name taken away after the emotionalism wore off.
Barbaro had 2 races changed due to overemotionalism. Barbaro was more important than our first "Triple Crown" winner or Leonard Richards? (I still don't know who Leonard Richards was/is, but if he was important enough to name a race after, the race probably shouldn't have been changed.)

Now, The Barbaro at DEL has been reduced from $300K to $150K. (The Dick was reduced from $300K to $200K). So barbaro was important enough to steal Leonard Richard's race from him, but not as important as Robert Dick?

The Barbaro was reduced from $300,000 to $150,000. The Dick, formerly a $300,000 race, will now be worth $200,000.

http://www.drf.com/news/article/101343.html

Make a new race for Eight Belles, give Sir Barton his race back (he's the first TC Winner on my Kentucky Derby Glasses).

This renaming trend is idiotic. (I'm also still pissed about the Explosive Bid at FG)

perhaps, my rum is talking, but I think not..........................

[citycat]

Instead of re-naming a race why could CD just made a "new" race named the Eight Belles?

I do not think they should have taken "La Troienne" down.

[Danzig]

i heard the news while driving home; i agreed with steve that it was a dumb idea. explained to my son how it was similar to sir barton being taken away for barbaro, and that there are actually two barbaro stakes now. at any rate, i also think if they wanted to honor eight belles, fine-but not at the expense of a mare the likes of la troienne.
i'd have rather a track that saw eight belles at her best honor her with a race, rather than where she broke down.

and really, enough with the 'had she run in the oaks' crap. hindsight leads us nowhere.

[Cannon Shell]

Naming a race after a horse that brokedown and died in your biggest race without ever having done anything else particularly notable would seem to be an idiotic move. Now every year we can bring up those wonderful memories and explain to newcomers how Eight Belles snapped not one but two legs after getting beat in the Derby. I mean there is just SO much upside to doing this. Hell the connections aren't even locals that they are pandering to.

I know the names of stakes races is not that important in the grand scheme of things but IMO this is not a particularly smart move.

[Linny]

Honestly, I always thought that the La Troienne should be run at KEE because she was a great broodmare and I think of KEE as a "breeders track." Maybe KEE and the Lexington elite will adopt the name.