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Good Horses Named After Famous People
Good Horses Named After Famous People
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Magniers missus named loads of them i think
Mozart George Washington Dylan Thomas **** Dick Whittington Jan Vermeer Horatio Nelson Aristotle Landseer Galileo Rock Hudson of Gibraltar  and a few more I bet just from this barn |
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Jack Hobbs the most notable current runner. Coolmore seem to have a lot of well known names reserved for their horses. Johannes Vermeer is a current example.
I once owned a share in a horse called James Hunt that won a few races around 1980. |
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^^
Was he in the habit of running up the backsides of other horses sageform? |
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Should be easy posy - it was one of the first sets. "Lord Grosvenor chose Orange". Yellow came immediately to mind because the Grosvenor/Dukes of Westminster colours are now yellow (faded Orange!!) The Duke of Northumberland who was also one of the first sets "chose yellow" but his colours are today Gold not Yellow.
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parispike - that was Rock Hudson not James Hunt
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parispike • February 9, 2016 1:44 PM GMT
^^ Was he in the habit of running up the backsides of other horses sageform?  |
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Ovid
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black Bessie
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very interesting blackbarn...little could they have foreseen at the time just how popular horse racing would become and not just in this country but around the world.
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well known racecourse bookmake alec lewis had one named after him by joe lisle two names from the past alec long gone is joe still about
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Brian Boru
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Alfie Noakes a shocking omission.
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Read the title loper, GOOD horses.....
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High class handicapper on the flat, Parispike.
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Loper - "high class handicapper", have you just got back from lunch? ONE class two handicap win at Epsom in a messy race and just ONE other win.
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Parispike was a good horse. Named after me
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Was never allowed to realise his potential, Blackbarn.
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The Benign Bishop.
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John Cherry
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Toby Tobias
Richard of Bordeaux Tyutchev Dusty Miller Floyd Bruslee |
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Have we had any fillies yet
Sarah Siddons Lily Langtry |
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Sahimah - good point. Godiva won the Oaks.
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Rebecca Sharp
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Lilly Langtry is a cracker. Think she won a big handicap but can't remember which it was.
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Leonardo Da Vinci
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Lily Langtry (foaled 27 February 2007) is an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. Bred at a small stud in County Cork she was sold as a yearling and raced for the Coolmore organisation. As a two-year-old, she was one of the best juvenile fillies in Ireland winning three of her seven races including the Fillies' Sprint Stakes, Debutante Stakes and Tattersalls Timeform Fillies' 800 as well as finishing third in both the Albany Stakes and the Moyglare Stud Stakes. She was injured when finishing unplaced in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf. In 2010 she recorded her biggest wins when recording Group One victories in the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot and the Matron Stakes at Leopardstown. She was retired at the end of the year with a record of five wins from eleven races.
courtesy WIKI |
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ones Lily Langtry
ones Lillie Langtry |
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****.
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I only said " ****"!
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4 times Ascot Gold Cup winner then!!!!!
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Try posting his name! Moderators won't allow me to do so!
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**** surely William B :-)
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**** censored for some reason
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Oskar(Oscar) Schindler
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William Butler ****
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John Willoughby...not that good but trained by John Dunlop years ago
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James Hunt won 3 novice chases in a row before running with a big penalty at Chepstow. One of his opponents was a horse called Little Polveir who had no previous form but won by 20 lengths. Little did we know what he would do at Aintree years later!
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henry kissinger
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Annie Noonan
Henry Smith Mary Hinge |
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Charles Dickens.
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