Racehorses named after Celebrities

[CumuloNimbus]

He sure wasn't a celebrity in the north, but Nathan Bedford Forrest had a horse named after him, N B Forrest... decent turf runner in the early 1990's. How the Jockey Club let that name by, I'll never know.

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by CumuloNimbus

He sure wasn't a celebrity in the north, but Nathan Bedford Forrest had a horse named after him, N B Forrest... decent turf runner in the early 1990's. How the Jockey Club let that name by, I'll never know.

Easily enough explained.

A profound lack of knowledge of history, and no such thing as Google.

[CumuloNimbus]

True dat, but still... how blewdy iggerant could they be? I bet someone could've slipped "I V Dzhugashvili" by them as well.

I know Cunning Stunt got by well back in the day, and Caesar Kimmel had a bunch of horses -- and good ones, too-- with eyebrow-raising names (Cold As A Witch's, Bodacious Tatas, among others). But of course these are slightly different stories.