Title: William Tell Overture (Spike Jones song)
Content:  the racehorses, some of them bearing a name similar to a real horse (Stoogehand for Stagehand, Dogbiscuit for Seabiscuit) and some of them with joke names ("Girdle" in the stretch, "Cabbage" out by a head, "Banana" out by a bunch, "Assault" passing "Battery", "Mother-in-Law" nagging in the rear ("ARK ARK ARK ARK!")). Perennially trailing the field with distant 20-to-1 odds is the horse Beetlebaum (one of Weaver's radio-show characters was Professor Feetlebaum). The horse's name is always spoken in a deep, two-note "foghorn" cadence. During the race, Beetlebaum keeps falling farther and farther behind the field. As the race nears its finish, the 
Title: Melvin F. Stute
Content:  In 1986, Stute trained two Champions. One was Snow Chief, with whom he won the Santa Anita Derby and Preakness Stakes, and was voted American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse. The other was Brave Raj, the American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly who won the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies. Stute bred and trained Telly's Pop. The gelding was owned by the racing partnership of Hollywood film director and producer Howard Koch and actor Telly Savalas, the latter naming the horse for his father. In 1975, Telly's Pop became the first horse to ever win the California Triple Crown for two-year-olds. Stute also trained Double Discount who on October 9, 1977, won the Carleton F. Burke Handicap in a world record time of 1:57 2/5 for 1 1/4 miles on turf. In the 1987 Breeders' Cup Sprint, Stute won with Very Subtle, a mare who defeated males to capture the top prize in the world for sprint horses on dirt.
Title: Sefton (army horse)
Content:  Sefton (1963–1993) was a British Army horse who served for 17 years from 1967 to 1984, coming to prominence when he was critically injured in the Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings which, combined, killed seven other horses and eleven people. He recovered sufficiently to return to active service and was subsequently awarded "Horse of the Year". Sefton became one of the first horses to be placed in the British Horse Society's equestrian Hall of Fame, and with an annual award named after him.
Title: Sefton (racehorse)
Content:  Sefton (1875&ndash;1891) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career that lasted from 1877 to 1878 he ran thirteen times and won three races. He showed little promise as a two-year-old, but developed into a leading colt the following year, when his wins included the 1878 Epsom Derby. At the end of the season he was retired to stud where he had little success. He was put down in 1891. The famous "Sefton Lodge" stables in Newmarket, owned by the horse's owner, were named after him.
Title: Sefton (racehorse)
Content:  Sefton, a dark-coated bay horse with one white sock, was bred by Jonathan Peel at the Glasgow Stud (owned by James Carr-Boyle, 5th Earl of Glasgow) at Enfield, Middlesex. As a yearling was sold for 1,000 guineas to William Stuart Stirling-Crawfurd (1819–1883) of Milton in Lanarkshire, Scotland (now a suburb of Glasgow), an "old school" sportsman who had married the widow of the Duke of Montrose. Sefton was trained at Manton by Alec Taylor Sr., who had established his training facility there in 1870 under the patronage of Stirling-Crawfurd. Sefton's sire Speculum was a top class stayer who won the Goodwood Cup. He went on to be a successful and influential sire, being the male-line ancestor of the Derby winners Sunstar and Phil Drake. Sefton's achievements enabled Speculum to become Champion sire in 1878. Sefton's dam was an unnamed mare by West Australian who was later given the name Lady Sefton. During Sefton's career, she was usually known as "Liverpool's dam" after a good colt she had produced in 1869.
Title: Sefton (army horse)
Content:  Sefton was born in July 1963 in County Waterford, Ireland, as a cross between an Irish Draught mare and a local thoroughbred stallion (thought to have been called Honour's Choice). He was purchased as a two-year-old by local Michael Conners, who then took him as a four-year-old to the nearby Pallas Stud to be inspected by the Army Purchasing Commission on 1 June 1967, who chose him immediately, paying the then standard £275. He was then shipped via ferry from Dublin along with 25 other three-year-old and four-year-old horses destined for the King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery and other parts of the Household Cavalry. Here, he was named Sefton after 
Title: Saint Estephe (horse)
Content:  Saint Estephe was a "leggy" bay horse with a diamond-shaped white star and a white sock on his left hind leg bred in France by D. Darlix, A. Balbous & P. Dubois. His sire Top Ville was an Irish-bred, French-trained horse which won the Prix du Jockey Club in 1979. At stud he also sired Toulon, Pistolet Bleu (Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud), Darara and Shardari. Saint Estephe's dam Une Tornade was a Listed race winner in France and was descended from Pontoon, a half-sister of The Derby winner Pont l'Eveque. During his racing career, Saint Estephe was owned by Yan Houyvet and trained in France by André Fabre.
Title: Steppenwolfer
Content:  Steppenwolfer (March 16, 2003 - June 21, 2018) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. He was sired by Aptitude, who in turn was the son of the 1992 U.S. Horse of the Year and U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, A.P. Indy, out of the mare, Wolfer. He was a contender for the Triple Crown in 2006, but fell short by finishing third to Barbaro in the Kentucky Derby. Steppenwolfer was gelded in 2009 and was retrained for steeplechasing. He did not win any of his starts in 2009 or 2010. Steppenwolfer was sold to Gail Thayer of Unionville, Pennsylvania and was re-trained as a foxhunter. The stipulations of his sale to Thayer state that he may never be re-sold.
Title: Stevie Wonderboy
Content:  Stevie Wonderboy is owned by the Merv Griffin Ranch Company. He was bred in Kentucky by John Gunther, Tony Holmes and Walter Zent. He was trained by Doug O'Neill, in all of his lifetime starts and was ridden by Garrett Gomez. Stevie Wonderboy is the son of Stephen Got Even out of the mare Heat Lightning, a daughter of the Storm Bird colt, Summer Squall. His grandsire is U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, A.P. Indy. His breeding line includes such notable horses as Secretariat, Seattle Slew, Bold Ruler and Northern Dancer.
Title: Lane's End Farm
Content:  The farm has been home to a number of famous horses and stallions including 1987 Belmont Stakes winner Bet Twice, 1999 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner Charismatic, 1999 Belmont Stakes winner Lemon Drop Kid, 1992 Belmont Stakes winner A. P. Indy, 1990 Preakness Stakes winner Summer Squall, 2003 Canadian Triple Crown winner Wando, champion sire Smart Strike, and European runner Law Society. Stephen Got Even, the sire of American Champion Juvenile Stevie Wonderboy, Gr.I winner I Want Revenge, and dual Classic-placed First Dude, stood stallion duties at Lane's End. Pensioned from stud duty in 2015, Stephen Got Even is spending retirement at the farm, along with his 

Question: what was the name of the horse in steptoe and son?
Answer: Hercules.