Ballydoyle Horse Names

SCATTERGUN  - or should that read - SCATTERBRAIN approach ...

Same as their irritating ENTRIES approach.

sue names them

Well she needs to get her thinking cap on or give the job to someone else.

She names them after a casual flick thru BBC history magazine.

Donald Trump next, if you are not careful. And he could win the Derby!

The jumpers names are much better......................
Tempestatefloresco and Claimantakinforgan just trip off the tongue

The Pentagon -who hasn't raised a gallop this year -was named because John McShain who built The Pentagon owned Gladness an early superstar at Ballydoyle.Hard to think of a Ballydoyle Group 1 or Classic winner that isn't well named.

I can think of one......................Was

have you noticed how very few classic winning horses have bad names?

golden fleece, dancing brave, elgransenor all roll off the tongue. by contrast I can't recall many horses called "mrwhippy'sicecream" winning the derby

take that norway, japan maiden you were referring to earlier. I can already pretty much dismiss the whole field as not amounting to much, as none of them have good names.

Derrick Smith in an interview said he likes to name his horses after places he has visited and successful made money.

Note in his article he said he had one of his most successful business trips to Japan.

Japan makes his debut today at the Curragh.

He should name them after currencies then.

Have we had Margaret Thatcher yet ?   

And other financial instruments.

No but they have a yearling called Reganomics.

No mention of Kenya!

The Queens horses are usually well named.

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Derrick Smith in an interview said he likes to name his horses after places he has visited

thai massage parlour?

Maybe he paid ten sovereigns for that experience Lewisham ;)

Entering the final furlong its Peggy's Pet and Nijinsky, Peggy's Pet and Nijinsky neck and neck, Peggy's Pet drawing away from Nijinsky.
Just doesn't sound right does it  .

This coming NH season I'm looking forward to seeing Mrs S Ricci's 4yo gelding, Libor.

Tempestatefloresco is a fine Latin motto. The problem is that you're only allowed a maximum of 18 characters, including spaces, for naming a thoroughbred. Hence it's registered as all one word, when it should be two: Tempestate Floresco - (In) The Storm (I) Flourish. Which would look less confusing.

There was a similar one in training with Mary Reveley in the 1990s, called Stoproveritate. The difference is that that one could and should have been registered as three words: Sto Pro Veritate - (I) Stand For Truth.

Rothmanmike:

Earlier winners Sam, Lap Dog, Spaniel, Blink Bonny and Santa Claus would sound just as bad.

Clement Freud once criticized the naming of Sea Bird, he said they might as well have called it Gulls Dropping. That was before the Derby.

Oldgit, nevertheless don't think any of those would have beaten Nijinsky, although Santa Claus would have given it a race.

I remember a horse called J Cheever Loophole about 25-30years ago now, Walter Swinburn won on it a couple of times, now that name has stuck in my mind for some reason. I must google that name.

Rufus T Firefly
Syrus P Turntable
Hiram B Birdbath
Otis B Driftwood
Waldorf T Beagle

Stephen Astaire

My sole reason for successful lay threads (at times) is i simply pick poorly named horses, it's obviously a foolproof system that could make us millionaires by this time next year.

Pink Dogwood (my Friday lay) the 11/10f trained by AOB is a tyical example. How can a filly named with such distain be expected to be a Queen of the turf.

I suspect Sue Magnier has one in the garden, but if she just wanted to name one starting with the letter P, something along the lines of Petite Etoil or Pawneese would have been much better, or even Pebbles at a push.

I imagine that Pink Dogwood is named after the hole at Augusta national that has the same name.

There is something in this, good horse good name. Yesterday Too Darn Hot won (great name) and I backed Watan (rubbish name).

Lewisham,

You're obviously well informed and knowledgable, that doesn't go down well on this fourm

The most true test of a name's greatness manifests itself in the list of US Triple Crown winners. With the exception of Gallant Fox of course:

1919     Sir Barton
1930     Gallant Fox
1935     Omaha
1937     War Admiral
1941     Whirlaway
1943     Count Fleet
1946     Assault
1948     Citation
1973     Secretariat
1977     Seattle Slew
1978     Affirmed
2015     American Pharoah
2018     Justify

The Green Monkey was doomed to failure with a name like that, named after a golf course apparently. Bought for $16m dollars and was beaten in three racecourse appearances in America and was then retired to stud. Stud career was also disappointing.

Apparently Susan Magnier, principal namer of the Ballydoyle horses, has already reserved names for future horses and historically those horses
with the greatest potential are given the most prestigious names.
Would love to know what names remain in her locker for upcoming 2-y-os.

The US Triple Crown lost its credibility when they allowed a misspelled winner in American Pharoah.

Would love to know what names remain in her locker for upcoming 2-y-os.

Here's a few .......

Two fillies are named DRESS and FLOWERING PEACH

I don't think the 'lads' had an input in the naming

Two colts are GODZILLA and HARPO MARX

Can anyone beat Muff Diver or **** Ash Lil ?
Some ordinary names stick in the mind forever. In the 50's we had Flying Officer and The Plumbers Mate.
Airborne was a popular name for the 1946 Derby Winner. Amazing that it started at the price it did.

@Oldgit1

I think that is slightly wrong, basically they wont be allowed free travel, so will need to apply for a visa to travel and possibly enter quarantine so therefore given the time constraints it may not become suitable for foreign horses to come to the UK to race and vice versa.

No different to Dubai, with our horses going over, I would imagine it would work the same.

flowering peach is another hole at augusta (I presume Magnier has played the course.)

I think we can deduce she is probably a similiar ability level to pink dogwood.

Surely the government will will leave it to racing authorities to run.

Arkle. Simply named, but what a name!!

Arkle named after a mountain same as Foinavon. Arkle's dam was Bright Cherry another nice name.