# Best Racehorse/Greyhound name? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 5, 2002, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-racehorse-greyhound-name/135289 "2002-11-05T01:10:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-racehorse-greyhound-name/135289/21 "2002-11-08T07:33:26Z")
There was a horse once named “Mortar Forker”. The owners eventually had to change the name to “Fun Tonight”. ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-racehorse-greyhound-name/135289/22 "2002-11-08T08:26:59Z")
“Crap Shoot” (come on, be honest) ---
**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-racehorse-greyhound-name/135289/23 "2002-11-08T11:55:41Z")
There was a trainer in Southern Illinois named Pizatola who spelled her name backwards and named her horse **Alotazip**. And there was **Bates Motel** who sired **Blondeinashower**. I never did understand how the Jockey Club allowed **Bodacious Tatas** , though. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-racehorse-greyhound-name/135289/24 "2002-11-08T12:06:21Z")
> [@](#): > > Damn. My two contributions are gone. But hands up who picked the Melbourne Cup Trifecta this year? So, who was a lucky boy then **Beastal**? And that means you are shouting the bar for this years G’dope Chrissy Party!! That’ll teach ya to be a smug bugger. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![antechinus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@antechinus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antechinus)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-racehorse-greyhound-name/135289/25 "2002-11-08T13:06:57Z")
There is the legendary Lithgow racehorse Rooting King, often referred to by Rampaging Roy Slaven (of Roy and HG fame, of course). ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-racehorse-greyhound-name/135289/26 "2002-11-08T13:19:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by antechinus \* > \*\*There is the legendary Lithgow racehorse Rooting King, often referred to by Rampaging Roy Slaven (of Roy and HG fame, of course). \*\* [This is a total and unabashed hijack] Hi Antechinus…y’know, I’ve actually SEEN a dinkum antechinus in the wild. I got to hold it too, but that’s only because the creature was lying comatose on the side of a bush track that we happened to be traversing in the VW. They’re normally worse than platypusses when it comes to being visible to your average human, but we got lucky this day. My (then) 7 yr old was the first to spot it, and he knew immediately that this was no ordinary mouse…and he even knew how to pronounce its name too!!! [/the totally unashamed hijack] OK, back to Rooting Kings and other Roy and HG Classics. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-racehorse-greyhound-name/135289/27 "2002-11-08T13:35:32Z")
Pie-O-My 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Huerta88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@Huerta88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huerta88)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-racehorse-greyhound-name/135289/28 "2002-11-08T19:09:02Z")
[hijack] As for greyhounds, I say let the monkeys themselves name them: [http://animal.cals.arizona.edu/classes/ans142/readings/Module-08.html](http://animal.cals.arizona.edu/classes/ans142/readings/Module-08.html) [http://nga.jc.net/photos.htm](http://nga.jc.net/photos.htm) [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-racehorse-greyhound-name/135289/29 "2002-11-08T19:19:05Z")
[Note for furriners: ‘Norfolk’ is a county in England] Apparently the UK authorities once had a submission to name a horse ‘Norfolk & Chance’ and came very close to granting it, only noticing at the 11th hour why they couldn’t allow it. ---
**Author:** ![antechinus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@antechinus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antechinus)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-racehorse-greyhound-name/135289/30 "2002-11-08T22:29:36Z")
\*\*‘Norfolk & Chance’ \*\* That is brilliant. [continuing kambucktas hijack] That was fortunate for you to see one, though not too fortunate for the critter. I hope you roused it from the coma.[/continuing kambuctas hijack] ---
**Author:** ![mikeargo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@mikeargo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikeargo)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2002, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-racehorse-greyhound-name/135289/31 "2002-11-09T15:23:58Z")
Squirtle Squirt. I don’t know what the Hell it means, but I had him to win at 9-1 in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Sprint. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-racehorse-greyhound-name/135289.md?page=1)