Horse Racing

There are some strict rules for naming horses and this can lead to some enterprising and amusing equine names, some which make it  and some which don’t…

A Brief outline to the rules of  racing horse naming:

• All horse owners who wish their horse to compete must register their names with Weatherbys, the official administrator of the horse racing.
• The Weatherbys register has about 250,000 names which consists of horses that are currently training or raced during the last 20 years.
• Famous racehorse names are not allowed to be used twice so there will never be another Shergar, Red Rum or Arkle even though they are all deceased.
• No name can contain more than 18 letters including spaces, names aren’t allowed whose pronunciation or spelling is obscene or insulting including spoonerisms or rude foreign words.

Love The Races has just published a list of banned Horse names. It’s a shame in a way that they didn’t make it.

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