The Naming Game
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Fascinated with how racehorses got their names after finding out that star hurdler Kybo stood for 'Keep Your Bowels Open' in the late 70s.
Joined November 2020
Antoine de Paris wins at Sligo for @tuvastables. Antoni Cierplikowski was a Polish hairdresser who became known as Antoine de Paris. Among his clients were Coco Chanel, Sarah Bernhardt, Greta Garbo, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Brigitte Bardot.
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Trubshaw wins at Sligo for @HenrydeBromhead. By Sixties Icon, Brian Trubshaw was a leading test pilot, and the first British pilot to fly Concorde. He made history on 9 April 1969 when he took Concorde 002 from Filton to RAF Fairford.
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Solsbury Hill wins at Roscommon for @codwyerracing. Solsbury Hill is a small flat topped hill and site of an Iron Age hill fort, above the village of Batheaston in Somerset. It was the inspiration for the first solo song released by Peter Gabriel after he left Genesis in 1977.
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Charlie Mason runs at Ffos Las today for @AWCarrollracing. Owned by the Shropshire Wolves, Charlie Mason, was a founder member of Wolverhampton Wanderers. He made almost 300 appearances at left back and was the first player in the club's history to win an England cap in 1887.
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Gunalt Wavelength runs at Catterick today for @MickEasterby. Gunalt Wavelength is one of many Weimaraner champions bred in Yorkshire by owners Stephen and Patsy Hollings.
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Isabella Castile runs at Newbury for @ChannonRacing. By Rock of Gibraltar, Isabella I of Castile formally annexed Gibraltar to Spain in 1501. In 1502, she granted Gibraltar its coat of arms, which the territory still uses today.
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Noli Timere wins at Naas for @MDOCallaghan. 'Noli timere' is a Latin phrase meaning 'Do not be afraid'. The phrase gained profound significance as the final message sent by Seamus Heaney, the Nobel Prize winning Irish poet, to his wife Marie, just before his death in 2013.
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Fallen Angel wins at Deauville for @karl_burke. Named by Clipper Logistics, her mother, Agnes Stewart, had been lost to colic. Steve Parkin's daughter names all of his horses and as this was her last foal she named her Fallen Angel.
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Scott Key won at Galway for Andrew Slattery. By Starspangledbanner, the resistance of Fort McHenry in the Battle of Baltimore inspired Francis Scott Key to write the poem 'Defence of Fort McHenry' which became the lyrics for 'The Star Spangled Banner', the US national anthem.
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Zavateri follows up at Goodwood for @johnsonhoughton.
Zavateri wins at Newmarket for @johnsonhoughton. Lorenzo Gaetano Zavateri was an 18th century Italian violinist and composer. Born in Bologna in 1690, his compositions showed the galante style of the late baroque and early classical eras.
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Enola Holmes runs at Goodwood for @JackJonesRacing. Out of Jane Marple, the Enola Holmes Mysteries is a series of novels by Nancy Springer, featuring Enola Holmes as the 14 year old sister of Sherlock Holmes. There are nine books in the series written between 2006 and 2023.
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Ten Bob Tony runs at Goodwood for @edwalkerracing. Owner Simon Sadler named the horse after his dad who was a market trader in the north west of England. He was called Ten Bob Tony, as at one time, he sold everything for 50 pence.
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Nimitz runs at Goodwood for Henrik Engblom. By U S Navy Flag, Chester Nimitz played a major role in WW11 as Commander in Chief of the US Pacific Fleet. A class of ten nuclear powered aircraft carriers in the US Navy has been named in his honour.
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Vincenzo Peruggia runs at Goodwood for @Johnston_Racing. Vincenzo Peruggia was the Italian handyman who stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911. He claimed it had been looted by Napoleon but, in fact, it had been brought to France by Leonardo da Vinci centuries earlier.
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Fen Tiger runs at Yarmouth for @JuliaFeilden. The original Fen Tigers were the people who rebelled against the drainage of the Fens in the 17th century. A tiger features on the Fenland Flag. The name was later used by the Mildenhall speedway team and 1970s boxer Dave Boy Green.
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Keel Strand runs at Uttoxeter for @PFNicholls. Keel Strand, also known as Trawmore Strand, is a 3.5km long sandy beach located on the western side of Achill Island in County Mayo. It stretches between Keel Village and Dookinella at the foot of the Minaun cliffs.
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Tara Iti runs at Uttoxeter for @JPOwenRacing. The New Zealand fairy tern or tara iti is New Zealand's rarest native breeding bird. It nests at only four locations between Whangārei and Auckland in the North Island and gives it's name to New Zealand's No 1 rated golf course.
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Masekela at Pontefract for @EasterbyTim. Hugh Masekela (1939–2018) was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, singer and composer who was described as 'the father of South African jazz'.
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Sergeant Wilko runs at York for @kevinryanracing. Sergeant Wilko, a play on the old TV character Sergeant Bilko, was the nickname give to football manager Howard Wilkinson when he joined Leeds in 1988 recognising his methods of drilling discipline into the team.
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Bermuda Longtail runs at Ascot for @AndrewBalding2. The white-tailed tropic bird, known in Bermuda as the Bermuda Longtail, is found in the tropical Atlantic, western Pacific and Indian Oceans. Their appearance around Bermuda signifies to many the arrival of spring.
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