Good Horses Named After Famous People

Titus Oates

Beaten to it       
Any other obvious villains ? Can't think of any murderers off-hand.
There's a horse called Jim'll Fix It running in the US currently.

Dick Turpin
Thomas Crapper
Shaftesbury
Dandino?

Infernal to omit Dante

Scratch Dandino. He always was a disappointment.

frankel a shocking ommission!!

Mike Peagram had a horse called My Dixie Normas which naturally was named after myself.

Can't say the horse is good but Charlie Wingnut (2.20 Sedgefield) is my pick. Can't get more famous than first in line to the throne.

Utrillo
Grey Of Falloden
Ned Kelly

Ned Stark! (For Game Of Thrones fans)

Dylan Thomas

Denman
Henry the explorer.

Money Tree

Skint

Wasn't there one called Norforkingood after TNM?

Norfolk And Good!

Dave

2008, 2000 Guineas winner, Henrythevaginator.

Eh?

Anyone old enough to remember John Bull winning the Derby ?

Remember it? I was there!

No wonder Stephaniebot gave you the hump...

Yellow colours! Posy.   ridden by the little genius.

posy • February 9, 2016 1:27 PM GMT
No wonder Stephaniebot gave you the hump...

Bloody hell Blackburn...remembering the colours is very impressive..

Make that Orange colours Posy.  Memory going after 200 odd years

In the circumstances an easy mistake to make

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

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.

^^

Was he in the habit of running up the backsides of other horses sageform?

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.

parispike - that was Rock Hudson not James Hunt

parispike • February 9, 2016 1:44 PM GMT
^^
Was he in the habit of running up the backsides of other horses sageform?

Ovid

black Bessie

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.

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

Brian Boru

Alfie Noakes a shocking omission.

Read the title loper, GOOD horses.....

High class handicapper on the flat, Parispike.

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.

Parispike was a good horse. Named after me

Was never allowed to realise his potential, Blackbarn.

The Benign Bishop.

John Cherry

Toby Tobias

Richard of Bordeaux

Tyutchev

Dusty Miller

Floyd

Bruslee

Have we had any fillies yet
Sarah Siddons
Lily Langtry

Sahimah - good point.  Godiva won the Oaks.

Rebecca Sharp

Lilly Langtry is a cracker. Think she won a big handicap but can't remember which it was.

Leonardo Da Vinci

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

ones Lily Langtry
ones Lillie Langtry

****.

I only said " ****"!

4 times Ascot Gold Cup winner then!!!!!

Try posting his name! Moderators won't allow me to do so!

**** surely William B :-)

**** censored for some reason

Oskar(Oscar) Schindler

William Butler ****

John Willoughby...not that good but trained by John Dunlop years ago

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!

henry kissinger

Annie Noonan
Henry Smith
Mary Hinge

Charles Dickens.

Nice one Dr. Can still see Andy Turnell and Charlie sauntering around Aintree in my memory banks.

Good post blackbarn but the Lily Langtry I was thinking about was 70s. Anything on it please?

I think it won one of the big handicaps at Beverley (Andy Cap or Vaux)

That should be Redcar

rumpelstiltskin

y e at    s.

rumplestiltskin ???

famous name but modest horse...Winston churchill

Merce Cunningham.

Thought of as a Derby horse,cleaned up in handicaps as a 4yo.

Found her.  She won twice at 3 (1976) a maiden at Ponte and then the Rosebery Memorial at Epsom (thats why you remember her mac) She was second that season in the Redcar Gold Trophy (to Move Off).  At 4 she won three more times, at Nottingham and Carlisle. She then won the Falmouth Handicap at York.  Sold at the end of that season for Gns 20k presumably to the paddocks as she did not race the following season.

Sir Peter Lely
Longshanks
Washington Irving
General Pershing
Alcapone
Samuel Wilderspin
Buck Rogers
General Wolfe

Loads of football ones like Van Niistelroy, Robben, Pires etc

Lots of other sportstamn as well like Hurricane Higgins, Lance Armstrong

Thomas crapper

Nureyev. Still can't believe he got disqualified in the 2000G

Brilliant blackbarn! I probably remember her because there was a good tv series starring the lovely Francesca Annis in the lead role, about the same time. I seem to have a connection with Lilly Langtry and P Robinson. Would that be right? Do you know who owned her? For some strange reason I am thinking, White, dark sleeves? I don`t know why.

Hi Mac.  No idea on the owner but the colours (from several black and white photos) appear to be Light (probably white) with a dark hooped cap and either a dark sash or hoop on the body. They look in the photos just like LB Holidays colours but no plain cap.  Someone may know.  Thinks she was ridden by Ernie Johnson on several occasions.

Joe Bloggs

mac - meant to add she wasn't a great success as a dam but one of her three successful offspring, Lil's Charm who went on to throw the top class NH Mare Kates Charm.

To those who mentioned Ye@ts, the horse apparently wasn't named after the famous poet, but his younger brother, Jack - Ireland's first Olympic medal-winner..

Might as well call one Churchill then say he's named after a nodding dog that says "oh yes" rather than Britain's most celebrated leader!

Balanchine, Owen Tudor, St Paddy, and the great Chief Dan George all come to mind.

Thanks blackbarn for the info.

blackbarn - Why when using the BHA racing colour design page, there isn`t an option for a sash on the body?

Are the design options listed the only acceptable combinations nowadays?

Or can one have a unusual design like they can in USA and Australia? Like a Horseshoe or one`s initials perhaps on body? I know you can answer this question which baffles me?

Mac - I hadn't noticed that the sash had disappeared   I will find out why and when from my mole.  Allertons still have it as an order option but interestingly Gibsons now show it as a "non-UK" option.  Look out shortly for some old historic colours with sashes being made available in the next BHA Racing Colours Sale - profits must be maintained.

mac - I omitted to answer your last part.  The short answer is no, in that you cannot register this kind of design any more.  You can of course still use non standard patterns if they are still registered (and were, at the point the patterns were restricted).  Peter Dimmock's winning post is still registered so could still be used if someone has kept the registration going. 

You will see some other more esoteric patterns on British Racecourses because the BHA operate a reciprocal arrangement of foreign registered owners to use their foreign registered colours over here, assuming they are not deemed clash. Although I doubt this happens much; as we know the BHA bend over backwards (and forwards) for foreign money.

NB - I have a list of old "odd" colours in my files somewhere. It does not include all the Tartans before you ask.

Thanks blackbarn. Is it possible for you to post a photo of some of the odd colours from your files, with owners names if famous, like one would do the normal ones, e.g.

For anybody who doesn`t recognise above colours, they belong to Ian Scott whose best horse was undoubtedly Birds Nest.

Leonardo Da Vinci, the best Pat Eddery ever rode - on that day! The Brigadier actually got one or two decent offspring to the better mares.

The Brigadier was also damsire of Cyrano de Bergerac, runner-up in the '86 Cork and Orrery which just about qualifies him for this list, and best known as the sire of Millkom.

Wow
GIACOMETTI
Yes I backed Snow Knight in the Derby " that year "
Brian Taylor stole it going down the hill and out stayed them , a great ride
Do you remember that ? and your comments please
Rgds

grimes     limerick hurler

grimes     limerick hurler

frankel

george baker

Sexton Blake