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That’s the way it’s gone now as they say. In 2 words - By God.

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More people go to Cheltenham now for the coke fest rather than pinting and doing yer bollocks on horses.

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Dawn Run, Wayward Lad, Run n’skip, forgive and forget

I’d say 75% of the public couldn’t name a current racehorse,

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Is Blackmore the name of a horse?

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Once Noel Reid RIP was gone from RTE the interest started to die off.

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Horses used to have names you could remember. Red Rum. West Tip. Durham Edition. Bonanza Boy. Have A Barney. Mr. Mulligan. Viking Flagship. Docklands Express. Remittance Man. Waterloo Boy. Galmoy. Florida Pearl. Best Mate.

Now it’s all Pencilfuloflead and Numbersixvalverde and Ayteenletrsaloud and Dubnobasswithmyheadman and Minella Times and Minella Rocco and Minella Rococco and Minella Schminella.

Ridiculous names like Istabraq and Sinndar and Hors La Loi III and Bindaree should have been a harbinger of things to come, a harbinger of a world of faceless Coneygrees and Energumemes and Valubans and A Plus Tards.

The names of horses now are like the names of property development companies during the Celtic Tiger.

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Good grief. “Ahorsewithnoname”. We are in the desert of horses’ names.

  • Mares’ Novice Hurdle – 4.50pm

1 Love Envoi (J J Burke) 15-2
2 Ahorsewithnoname (Nico de Boinville) 50-1
3 Grangee (P Townend) 13-2

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Here’s 62 names for your next horse @thedancingbaby:

Cunt Of The Year

Side Of Ham

Going For Hints

False Balance

That Never Happened

Duplicate Account

Klaxons Have Sounded

Auntie Vaccine

Ratoath Inn

One Of The Greats

Split Season

Friday Night Eighties

Awkward Squad

Doctor McKenna

Keep On Hooping

Spring Soiree

Eastern Seaboard

Reveller

Pretend Expert

Couldn’t Make It Up

One Armed Waiter

Joe Duffy Toaster

A Haunty One

Circle Jerker

Fascinating To Watch

I’m Alright Jack

Company Man

Box Office

Overton Window

Gahliban

Shitgibbon

Hamish McJockstrap

Muldoon

Urban Sophisticate

Tea In A Mug

Mick The Meltdown

Pubehead

Flat Track Bully

Can’t Always Be Summer

Flying In Training

AN Other

Gone Off Topic

One For The Dungeon

Post Reported

That’s The Way It’s Gone

Game Is Gone

That’s A Backtrack

Burnden Park

Cool Story Bro

Celebrity Spot

Screaming Mary

Rastooler

Poppy O’Neill

Self Hating Jew

That’s A Clamping

Seashell Myth

Caul Pollins

Page Teaboy

Forelock Tugger

Powder Pisser

You Just Don’t Get It

Mugged Off

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I read that whole list in my head in peter O’Sullevan’s voice

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5373

I did similar. It makes me want to own a horse. I think tea in a mug and one armed waiter were my favourites of the acceptable ones… and forelock tugger… and you just gont get it (fella)

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Did you hand over to John Hanmer before Beecher’s?

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gold.

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“Another thread ruined” would be the name for a TFK horse

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  • Names can have a maximum of 18 characters including spaces and punctuation.

  • Initials are not permitted.

  • Names may not end with “filly”, “colt”, “stud”, “mare”, “stallion” or any similar horse-related terms.

  • Names may not consist only of numbers, unless the number are above thirty and you spell it out. So, you could name a horse “Forty forty”, for example.

  • Names must not end with a numerical designation such as “1st” or “2nd”.

  • A racehorse’s name must not include the name of a real person or someone who has been dead for less than 50 years, unless their written permission or the permission of their family is provided.

  • No names of racecourses or graded races can be included.

  • Names must not have any obvious commercial significance.

  • A name must not include suggestive, vulgar or obscene words and meanings and should not be in poor taste.

  • Names should not be offensive to any religious, ethnic or political groups.

  • You can not give a racehorse a name that features on the restricted list.

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Surely your horse would be “Hey big vendor” unfortunately you can’t use product names otherwise Berlingo Boy would have been lovely.

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There was a horse at Cheltingham called Langer Dan. What a name!

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Took the first cut off the lawn yesterday evening. Happy days.

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5381

About time, they’re going looking into Judge Nolan and his bullshit sentences.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/0401/1367618-judge-martin-nolan-inquiry/

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