{"id":43985,"date":"2018-02-04T10:22:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T15:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=43985"},"modified":"2018-02-04T10:22:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T15:22:10","slug":"what-not-to-name-your-horse-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/?p=43985","title":{"rendered":"What Not To Name Your Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"

By ITCH<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not stop.<\/p>\n

Not dead.<\/p>\n

Not slow.<\/p>\n

And certainly not corpse.<\/p>\n

These are words to avoid when naming an animal which you hope will run fast and win races.<\/p>\n

Lately, this writer has been noticing more and more horses with extremely poor names.<\/p>\n

Let’s just do some quick, rudimentary research. A horse search for the word “death” reveals more than 100 horses!<\/p>\n

DREAMING OF DEATH, DEATH IS COMING, LITTLE DEATH, DEATH IS HERE, BREATH OF DEATH.<\/p>\n

You get the picture.<\/p>\n

This is an epidemic!<\/p>\n

Why, even the lovely and talented Spinround, my colleague at our BTB who has deep knowledge of the horseracing industry, linked a horse in chat she named HABEAS CORPSES.<\/p>\n

Funny? Yes.<\/p>\n

Good name for a horse? No! Heavens, no!!!!<\/p>\n

I have said this a million times in chat and I am going to repeat myself here. You do not want to put a negative connotation in the name of your horse. What can be more negative than death? But yet, there are hundreds of horses with the word “death” in their names.<\/p>\n

What are you people doing?<\/p>\n

Doing to yourselves?<\/p>\n

Doing to your own horses?<\/p>\n

As I said I would do in chat, I just had to write this article as a public service to our Sim trainers all over the world. It’s a strange plea because I am begging you all to have mercy on yourselves! Have mercy on your own horses!<\/p>\n

In keeping with the present theme, let’s do a quick horse search for the word “slow.”<\/p>\n

Oh my God!<\/p>\n

There are more than 100 horses with the word “slow” included in their names.<\/p>\n

SLOW ME DOWN, SLOWLY FADING (an amazing double negative), MUCH TOO SLOW, SLOW DOWN II (the first one was not slow enough?)<\/p>\n

In naming your horses, a breeder wants to suggest speed, high class and competitive character. Like say, Count Fleet. That’s a good name.<\/p>\n

The thing with all these awful names is they’re not going away. Even if everybody stopped cold turkey right now, it might be another 10 years before all the bad names are out.<\/p>\n

And yet, I know it will never happen. People are going to continue to give awful names to their horses.<\/p>\n

Don’t say nobody warned you.<\/p>\n

(Note: \u00a0This article has been re-published because the lessons herein have been lartgely ignored. \u00a0There can be no greater Simulated frustration than that felt by the Self-Appointed Simulated Name Police.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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