Time to name the colt. My preference would be to follow the tradition of naming the horse with a reference to his sire, dam, sire’s sire or dam’s sire. This one is going to be tough, so I am asking the creative folks of the SDMB for help. I have seen your user names, so I know you can come up with something great.
The sire is Mutakddim. The folks in General Questions informed me this was most likely Arabic and means “advancing forward, “” the one in front” “preceding.”
The dam is Conway Kitty. I am guessing a play on Conway Twitty.
The dam’s sire is El Prado. Which in spanish means “meadow” or “lawn.”
The sire’s sire is Seeking the Gold, whose sire is Mr. Prospector
So far I have come up with, “Advancing Lawn,” which is quite terrible, but is growing on me, no pun intended. So I could really use your help.
The Jockey Club must approve the name, so vulgar, suggestive, obscene, etc. names will not be approved. Some owners see this as a challenge though and try to sneak some by. Which explains, the track record setter “Isitingood.” (Which I was tempted to use as my user name.)
The name cannot be more than 18 characters, including spaces and punctuation.
So any suggestions? Since this one may be difficult, I may opt for just something funny to name a horse. i.e., “also ran.” I think it would be amusing every time he came in fourth, the Daily Racing Form would read: also ran: also ran. And anything that would be funny to hear the track announcer say would be good too. i.e., “Shh Hush” always gets attention, then giggles from the crowd when the announcer mentions him.
Thanks for your help. If the name you suggest is picked, you could get bragging rights for naming the 2007 Triple Crown winner!
