Has everyone run out of names for horses?

Hazard of racing life. The really annoying ones are where an owner has seen a horse racing overseas the previous week and uses the same name, and sometimes they race on the same day. It would be so easy to stop but the BHA won't act without reciprocity from all the other countries: letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Case in point, there is a 4-year-old in Hong Kong called Greenwich, and a 3-year-old here which is declared for tomorrow.

Takeover Target is another one I’ve seen recently.

There seems to have been a few horses called Ptarmingan Ridge also

Once a horse has been inactive for 10 years, it makes sense to allow the name to be used again. Exceptions are made for winners of Group 1 races. Do we want more and more unpronounceable foreign names that I find very hard to remember which was which a year later? With around 14 thousand new yearlings to name every year, it is getting very hard to find new ones which is why we get daft spellings.