“He’s Pegasus, he has wings, and he’s the most incredible battler. When he got overtaken two out, most horses would quit, but he grabbed me by the hands and said, ‘Don’t you dare give up, don’t you dare not send me into the last, I want this more than you, now come on!’” she said
That unfortunately and I assume a completely innocent mistake.
The sire of the horse was Bungle in the Jungle, so it would just have been a play on that without realising the negative connotations.
A friend of a friend used to have greyhound running in Dublin called urmasurda