https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31814227/you-wonder-if-people-should-own-horses---if-all-they-can-name-them-isGrannys YARIS - 5:20 TramoreIs Granny a Taxi Driver ?Is this a subliminal advert for that? -------I know some will say the likes of - 'Each to their own' - so ... I suppose it was better than Naming it .......... Grannys Arishttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31814227/you-wonder-if-people-should-own-horses---if-all-they-can-name-them-is?post_id=563385161#563385161Unbelieveable but true : one om my great-grandfathers was actually called Isaac Hunt.Mon, 21 Aug 2023 14:50:33 -0500https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31814227/you-wonder-if-people-should-own-horses---if-all-they-can-name-them-is?post_id=563384575#563384575Does a nice or obvious name make horses run faster? Maybe why Weatherbys keep refusing Hesaque Hunt?Mon, 21 Aug 2023 11:29:10 -0500https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31814227/you-wonder-if-people-should-own-horses---if-all-they-can-name-them-is?post_id=563384565#563384565It looks like the aussie Arkle (1996) ran at Sunshine Coast Turf Club on March 19, 2000, but I don't have a form book, and the web link craps out...https://mdata.racingnsw.com.au/InteractiveForm/Meeting.aspx?meetcode=MTc3MDgxOTEyMon, 21 Aug 2023 11:24:45 -0500https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31814227/you-wonder-if-people-should-own-horses---if-all-they-can-name-them-is?post_id=563384445#563384445dont come to the ukMon, 21 Aug 2023 10:45:09 -0500https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31814227/you-wonder-if-people-should-own-horses---if-all-they-can-name-them-is?post_id=563384327#563384327IDK - Granny's Yaris - good for 30mph for 2 or 2 and a half miles, wouldn't imagine it going further or faster?Mon, 21 Aug 2023 10:08:06 -0500https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31814227/you-wonder-if-people-should-own-horses---if-all-they-can-name-them-is?post_id=563382995#563382995cacique 20 Aug 23 21:40 the 1996 one is recent enough... but i'll stand corrected.--------That looks like some kind of error - cacique NO Arkle Listed on Racing Post (and their records are since 1988)Checked the 1996 one on pedigreequerry - and whenSun, 20 Aug 2023 16:06:51 -0500https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31814227/you-wonder-if-people-should-own-horses---if-all-they-can-name-them-is?post_id=563382949#563382949I have SEETHED when Spanish Steps… has been resurrected on more than 1 occasion in the last 30 years!Sun, 20 Aug 2023 15:52:32 -0500https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31814227/you-wonder-if-people-should-own-horses---if-all-they-can-name-them-is?post_id=563382897#563382897the 1996 one is recent enough... but i'll stand corrected.Nell Gwyn and Cherry Hinton are names that spring to mind for naming after a race... And of course Seagram winning was their PR's wet dream!!Sun, 20 Aug 2023 15:40:07 -0500https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31814227/you-wonder-if-people-should-own-horses---if-all-they-can-name-them-is?post_id=563382817#5633828171967 .... in VENEZUELA - cacique ... When Arkle was still racing.Since those days - The Authorities brought in a PROTECTED NAMES Policy .... and you can bet your boots ARKLE will be on that List -as will also be the likes of - ECLIPSE from 150 yearsSun, 20 Aug 2023 15:12:03 -0500https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31814227/you-wonder-if-people-should-own-horses---if-all-they-can-name-them-is?post_id=563382733#563382733There was an Arkle born in 1967 and 1996 according to https://www.pedigreequery.com/.Coolmore have an awful naming policy... maybe they have the name Arkle reserved?Sun, 20 Aug 2023 14:46:09 -0500