Can anyone sugest some good names for racehorses?
the pserson I'm asking for ahs 3 new colts and was looking for some exotic sounding names. No ideas as to what sex they are. Tahnkx, Darryl,Australia.

Hello, Darryl. Welcome to the board.

Not knowing how exotic your friend wants the names to be ...

I nominate SPARTAN VICTORY

If it's a really slow horse, name it Pharlapped

"I nominate SPARTAN VICTORY"

with all due respect, i think CARDINAL CHAMPION has a more resounding ring to it.

Autralia huh? hmmmmm ...
An archaic meaning for the word currency, according to the Oxford English dictionary is : a native born Australian! So : Currency?
For a bay-colored horse, of course BOTNAY BABY (Mis-spelled on purpose so it can be registered, thank you).
For a black horse : Dark Knight
For a filly : "Quite the Lass" or "Big Bad Broad" (if your friend's mind works that way.) ...
Then I also like, for the trouble they will cause announcers, "Out In Front" and "WINNER"
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Well, Darryl, are ya ever gonna tell us what happened with our last suggestions, huh?

http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=11957

Right on, Jackie!
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Bravo Jackie, what a memory you have. I was having that been-there, done-that feeling too, but I can never find what I search for.

Oh, belM, thank you for that .. me too.
Welcome to the Club ... it's been a long lonely time
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How about Splendiferous...I happen to love that word!

How about "Donkey"? A friend of mine who has/trains racehorses uses that as a stable name for his best pacer. He wanted to register that as her race name but got a tart rejoinder from the NZ Trotting Association that it might bring the industry into disrepute. Pardon? I'd have thought it was a bit late for that!

How about "Donkey"? A friend of mine who has/trains racehorses uses that as a stable name for his best pacer. He wanted
to register that as her race name but got a tart rejoinder from the NZ Trotting Association that it might bring the industry into
disrepute.

OK, how about Donqui Xote? Or are we tilting at windmills trying to pass that one off? Or will the tart still issue her opprobrious rejoinder? Or, if you've seen the movie, "Babe," perhaps your friend should enter a sow named Equus, or something.

How about OderAberUeberUnterAmergau ? -- from an old German ditty -- usually written as a sentence, I'm sure

Sheesh, Geoff. You came up with a fantastic one there in the text of your message...

Opprobrious Rejoinder

Yeah, I like it!

Well, Darryl, are ya ever gonna tell us what happened with our last suggestions, huh?

Good call, Jackie!

Opprobrious Rejoinder

Ah, yes, it does fall tripping off the tongue, doesn't it! And, for those of a certain age, there's the old Spike Jones song about a race horse named Beetlebaum. Am I the only one who remembers it? Oohhh, I'm old enough for the glue factory!

No, Geoff, you're not the only who remembers Spike Jones's version of the William Tell overture (I think) and many other 'classics'. I still have a couple of LPs of his, and had many 78s (remember those?) when I was a youngster.

We'll have to get together, guys: "and coming into the home straight, it's...... BEETLEBUM!"

(well, that's what I heard it as when young, of course!)

... BEETLEBUM!"

And I heard, "Beetlebomb!" What a blast I also misheard "Bud Abbott and Lou Costello; I thought the radio announcer was saying, "Butt Abbott and Lucas Tello."

Oh, I've got to go find some old Spike Jones - I hope they've put them on CDs!

Nobody's mentioned the Peter, Paul, and Mary song about a racehorse named Stewball, so I won't either.

the last lot of equine names were lost when the dreaded Win95 caused all my files to be lost :-(
I hope I have better luck this time :-)

Peter, Paul, and Mary song about a racehorse named Stewball

since Geoff is digging up songs from the past (i grew up on PP&M, btw), how 'bout "Wildfire"?