I saw the horse name post so I have decided i am going to infodump just a little bit about horse names. So, horses typically have two names: a registered name and a “barn” name. The registered name is what is given to them early on, and is considered bad luck to change, and the barn name is what you call the horse day-to-day. The barn names are fairly simple and typically not too wild, probably the weirdest barn name I’ve encountered is horse named Brown Wrapper. The *registered* names on the other hand, get pretty wild. In racehorses and registered breeding horses, you can’t name your horse something too similar to another horse until at least five years after the first horse has left service. (This isn’t a *rule* for horses that aren’t racehorses but it’s generally considered bad luck to do). Some of my favorite registered names I’ve seen include things like “Almost But Not Quite Jett Black”, “Buttcrack”, and “Lick Me I’m Delicious”
So THAT explains the horse named Potoooooooo!
I love that horse.
Wikipedia: “Abingdon intended to call the young colt ‘Potato’ and instructed the stable boy to write the name on a feed bin. The stable boy spelled the name as ‘Potoooooooo’ (Pot followed by 8 ‘o’s; that is, a failed attempt at spelling phonetically), which so amused Abingdon that he adopted the spelling.”
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And for Melbourne Cup rhe name can't exceede 18 characters
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horse-is-a-horse-of-course posted this I saw the horse name post so I have decided i am going to infodump just a little bit about horse names. So, horses...
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