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You might feel sure that a horse is not a Flamingo, a Polar Bear, a
Tomato, a Teapot, a pair of Bootlaces, a Taxidermist, a Rat Catcher
or a Flea but you'd be wrong. Racehorse owners often give their
horses bizarre names that would seem to make success impossible.
Luckily, thoroughbreds are able to defy such handicaps. A Spaniel
has won the Derby (1831), a Crow the St Leger (1976), a Butterfly
the Oaks (1860) and, difficult to imagine, Oscar Wilde the Welsh
National (1958). It's bonkers. Bonkers won at Southwell in 2002.
Over the centuries there have been hundreds of thousands of
different names bestowed or inflicted on racehorses and in Fifty
Shades Of Hay, David Ashforth has picked out a selection to baffle,
surprise and amuse in equal measure.
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